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Opening Space Evaluation Connects Classrooms

Open education offers a way to create a shared set of tools, procedures, and resources..

The Future of Restrooms is Inclusive

By: Michael Ralph, Lead Researcher, & Sam Church, Intern

The idea of public space is complex, and the way a community shares space..

Education

Mid-Century Gym Transformed for 21st-Century Learning

Aging education facilities are an issue for tens of thousands of schools and districts across the United States. The National Education..

City-Planning

So Long, 2020: A Note from the Gould Evans Studio for City Design

2020 did not go as planned for anyone. Not for you. Not for us. And not for many of our friends, colleagues, and institutions. The..

Not All Trees Are Created Equal

Trees play an important part in the story of where we live. In addition to being beautiful, the presence (or absence) of a tree can..

Student Housing

For a Resilient Campus, Think Like a Futurist

Pre-COVID-19, a dozen colleagues and I participated in a workshop with the applied futurist Brian David Johnson and the development and..

Holistic (Affordable) Housing

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—combined with an early start to the California wildfire season—is exacerbating economic, social, and..

Reworking Work

There are a lot of assumptions about “the workplace of the future” and “the future of work, post-COVID-19.” Many of them..

Education

Liberal Arts Learning in 21st-Century Spaces

When employers admonish the educational providers of this country to produce future-ready graduates prepared to solve the hardest of..

Enough with the testing – let’s see spring semester for what it is

Spring semester certainly didn’t go as anyone would’ve wanted. In a span of a few days, schools and districts were forced to lurch from..

Building on Stable Investments for Future Generations

In late March, the Brookings Institute released a study measuring two important indicators of how immediately cities would feel the..

The Word is Out: Active Classrooms Are Attracting Students

College campuses are changing. The images from yesteryear of students sitting row-after-row in cavernous lecture halls are being..

Rethinking Urban Infrastructure in San Francisco

The Gould Evans San Francisco studio is located near the Highway 101 Central Freeway overpass: a noisy, smoggy, car-centric barrier..

Human vs. + Machine: Physical and Virtual Observation Methods for Our Future

Covid-19 has ushered in a dilemma of duties in the construction and architectural fields. As design professionals, our contractual,..

Reshaping Space to Reopen Higher Ed – Safely

On May 21, Gould Evans’ David Reid joined a diverse group of thought leaders – such as Tom Sack, Ph.D., President and CEO of MRIGlobal,..

Education

Design Thinking For Kids

Intuition sometimes stands at odds with empirical data. While you may be at home with your children wondering if they will ever catch-up..

Ideas