Omaha Mobile Stage
Omaha Mobile Stage is a creative placemaking project to design and make a portable stage to serve as a cultural and economic catalyst in public spaces and main streets throughout the Omaha metropolitan area. OMS is a project of Partners for Livable Omaha, an Omaha-based nonprofit dedicated to the educational and charitable support of the live performing arts.
Parafiction
This thesis demonstrates parafiction as one productive method of exercising architectural imagination. I define parafiction as a type of fiction that begins with a fact and is presented as a fact in order to demonstrate what the world could be. To demonstrate parafiction as a productive technique of exercising imagination in architecture, this project consists of a short mock documentary, website and archive that are presented as factual.
Sheridan County 4H Fairgrounds
FACT 19: This project reverses biases towards urban culture as global culture and the rural as a resource primed for extraction proposing instead a new cultural nexus of commoning for the rural.
Peru Downtown Redevelopment
The Community and Regional Planning Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is partnering with local community members on a downtown revitalization plan for Peru, Nebraska. As part of the planning process, students traveled to Peru for a community meeting and toured the area. Community members were asked to take a survey to help UNL students better understand the needs of the downtown area and community concerns.
Saline Wetland Monitoring
One can search the entire earth and nowhere else in the world will one find a small, tiny insect called the Salt Creek tiger beetle but here in eastern Nebraska, more specifically in the few remnant saline marshes near Lincoln. However, a regional collaboration, involving University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers, is working to not only prevent the extinction of this rare beetle, but also its habitat and other species with the installation of an environmental monitoring system.
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