Category: Opportunity

UW Sustainability is looking for a student graphic design assistant starting in mid-June 2019. This is a part-time position for a current UW student. The graphic design assistant will work closely with the UW Sustainability team to develop marketing communications materials that educate and engage the UW community regarding sustainability programs and initiatives.

Full details below. To apply, go to Handshake and search for position 2716098 or email a cover letter, resume and portfolio (or link to online portfolio) to deklund@uw.edu.

UW Sustainability is a central source for information and resources regarding sustainability practices and programs at the University of Washington. Our office promotes sustainability events, efforts, accomplishments, and more in print and online communication. At the University of Washington, diversity is integral to excellence. UW Sustainability values and honors diverse experiences and perspectives, while striving to create welcoming and respectful learning environments, and promote access and opportunity for all. UW Sustainability encourages individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

The Graphic Design Assistant will report to the Communications Coordinator and work closely with the UW Sustainability team to develop marketing communications materials that educate and engage the UW community regarding sustainability programs and initiatives.

Please include portfolio examples or a link to an online portfolio with your application.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with creative concept planning for campaigns and outreach efforts.
• Design posters, flyers, brochures, and other promotional materials.
• Design graphic elements for web, newsletters, and emails.
• Work collaboratively to guide creative concepts and make them a reality.
• Concept and prepare social media images and infographics.
• Assist in creative design and communications for Earth Day, Sustainability Fair, and other campus events.
• Develop presentation slides for staff and executives.
• Manage branding assets and updates.
• Take photos and manage photo library.
• Work with staff to submit orders to Creative Communications.
• Provide general administrative support.
• Participate in team meetings and discussions.

Required Qualifications:

• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, especially Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign.
• Creative with strong organizational skills and ability to manage deadlines.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to lead creative brainstorming and collaborative idea generation.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience creating and editing video.
• Experience working on Mac computers.
• Interest in environmental justice, social equity, ecological knowledge and/or environmental sustainability.
• Previous experience working in an office environment.

Salary: $16/hour

Please join us to hear guest speaker Derek Taylor speak about lessons from The Netherlands.

 

A Successful Integrated Mobility Strategy: Lessons from The Netherlands
Presented by Goudappel Coffeng, Mobility Consultants
Guest Speaker: Derek Taylor, Mobility Analyst with Goudappel Coffeng

Tuesday, May 28 from 9:00 – 11:00 am

Puget Sound Regional Council

1011 Western Avenue, Seattle, Suite 500

 

A well-connected and integrated transportation network has the power to improve the environment, economy and our everyday lives. The Netherlands has achieved a fully integrated mobility network by incorporating four strategies into their transportation planning: urban planning, connectivity, mobility transfers and user experience. Goudappel Coffeng, the leading mobility consulting firm in The Netherlands, will explain how The Netherlands is leading the world in building and managing successful mobility systems.

 

Please register if you are planning to attend, there is limited space.  https://mobilitystrategy.eventbrite.com

Link to Flyer:

URBDP 480 Fall 2019

Environmental Innovation Practicum

2 credits, Tuesdays 4:00 – 5:50 PM | ENTRE 443/543, ENGR 498A, ENVIR 495   

Want to live in a world with clean air, access to clean water, strong food systems, healthy environments, and an equitable society? Innovative ideas are needed to help get us there! Experience how such ideas get developed by cross-discipline teams, learn from leading thinkers on renewable energy, efficient buildings, sustainable agriculture and more, and get coaching, from entrepreneurs and experts when you register for this course. Excellent preparation for the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge. Questions? E-mail Lauren Brohawn at brohal@uw.edu.

ESS307: Diversity Outreach

TTh 2:30-3:50pm, JHN026

3-5 credits DIV/NW or I&S

Prerequisites:  One of ESS101, ESS102, ESS211, ESS212, ESS213, ESS472 (exceptions can be made, previous approval of the instructor)

Instructor: Isabel Carrera, micz@uw.edu

Students will explore and understand the barriers that underserved and underrepresented communities in the Northwest face prior to pursuing careers in STEM and will learn how to design culturally appropriate outreach activities.

This is a service learning course that mixes community-based work with lectures/seminars. The credits for the participation in the class will be variable dependent on the hours volunteering:

• 3 credits: class time + 20 hrs volunteering/qtr
• 4 credits: class time + 30 hrs volunteering/qtr
• 5 credits: class time+ 40 hrs volunteering/qtr

HONORS 230 A: Bones and Blood of the City: How Seattle Works Behind the Scenes (I&S)

Richard Conlin (Urban Design and Planning)

Email: richardbyrdconlin@gmail.com

T TH 9:40-12:20

Summer A-Term

How can hundreds of thousands of people live, work, and play in close proximity to each other? What keeps them from fouling their dense environment and fighting with each other? What systems have been put in place to enable large populations to stay healthy, move around, secure food and water, and minimize conflict? Cities work because over painful centuries, systems have evolved that protect public health and safety while providing amenities that support the life and work of the people who live in the City. An extraordinary network of facilities and people work to make city life possible. Astonishingly, a very large network or array of services can depend on and be controlled from a single point, and an amazingly small amount of space and resources can serve a very large population. Humans have congregated in urban forms for millennia, but it took a long time to figure out how to manage their water and sewage, to provide power and transportation services, and to manage the sometimes challenging interactions among them and create thriving and diverse communities. This class will delve into the key structures that have been built up over time (and mostly in the last several centuries) to provide formal systems that make urban life possible. This course uses viewing and assessing urban systems and their contexts on the ground to tell the story of the city.

Participants will travel to key locations, meet with the people who run these systems and facilities, and tour the core services. As background, students will learn about the history of urban development and how the ways in which we design and manage cities evolved over time, along with some of the motivations and unintended consequences that we still live with and have to manage for the future.

There is still space available, and the course is open to all UW students. It would give students “W” and I&S credit. Students can contact uwhonors@uw.edu to get a spot in the course.

LARCH 498B/598B Design Studio: Walking in the Anthropocene (6 credits)

Full Term: June 24 – August 5 2019

M/W/F 12:30-5:30pm, Gould 312

This interdisciplinary design studio investigates shifting ideas, spatial forms and public practices of pilgrimage—as sacred journey, scientific exploration, public protest and virtual inhabitation—in an era of climate change, political upheaval and social injustice. Whether a mundane kinetics, or an exalted journey, walking is a deeply foundational act, inscribed at the molecular level in our DNA, and embedded at varying scales in the environments we inhabit, navigate and shape. And in an era that privileges speed and efficiency, the slow landscapes of walking are deceptively subversive, that both witness the unseen and resist conformity, resignation and appropriation. Participants will be challenged to design their own catalytic urban pilgrimage, one that links existing sites, connects people, and builds social and natural capital in an age of crisis.

Course Instructor: Elizabeth Umbanhowar

Please contact instructor at umbanhow@uw.edu for more information.

LARCH 498D/598D Fairy Tales of the City (4 credits)

Summer Intensive: June 24 – June 28 2019

9:00am-4:00pm, Gould Digital Commons

Explore urban theory, creative writing, illustration, and design. Inspired by the Blank Space Project Fairy Tales Competition, this course is a one week lab where you will write a 1,500 Fairy Tales and create five digital illustrations to accompany the story.

All experience levels and backgrounds encouraged to join. Course will be held in the UW College of Built Environments Digital Commons with access to all the resources and equipment you will need.

Course Instructors: Anca L. Szilágyi (author of “Daughters of the Air”) and Mackenzie Waller

Please contact instructor at wallerm@uw.edu for more information.

CREÄ Affiliates is looking for a full-time planner for its Seattle office. The ideal candidate will have experience working with the public, have a valid driver license and be conversant, if not an expert in Geographic Information Systems technology. Previous work experience as well as multilingual capabilities will be give preference. Pay is generous and commensurate with experience. Please send a letter of interest, samples of mapping and a writing sample to info@crea-affiliates.com. No calls please.

Scholarships available

APA Foundation Scholarships advance social equity in the profession and in our communities. Women, people of color and indigenous descent, veterans, disabled persons, and members of the LGBTQ community who are currently enrolled in Planning Accreditation Board-approved programs are encouraged to apply. Applications for both APA Foundation Scholarships and the Charles Abrams Scholarship will be accepted through June 20.

President’s Challenge goal exceeded The APA Foundation raised more than $27,000 at NPC19, exceeding the goal of APA President Kurt Christiansen’s Fundraising Challenge. In addition to funding student scholarships, donations to the Foundation help resource-limited and disaster-affected communities and support research that equips planners to help communities plan for the future.

Video wins top award The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts honored the APA Foundation video, “We the Planners Believe,” with a 2019 Communicator Award of Distinction. The Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals. Congratulations to the APA Foundation team!