CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTS
RESEARCH AND DESIGN GROUP

School of Architecture and Urban Planning
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


OVERVIEW

This site is still under construction. Information is being added on a regular basis.

Mission

The Children's Environments Research and Design Group (CERDG) is dedicated to advancing the state of our knowledge about children, youth, and their physical environments, to the utilization of such knowledge in policy, planning, and design for and with children and youth, and to the dissemination of knowledge to interested professionals and academics.

Background and current operations

The Children's Environments Research and Design Group is an informal, interdisciplinary research group initiated in 1995 by Professor Gary Moore and masters and doctoral students working with him on child-environment or youth-environment studies at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. The history of active involvement in children's environments -- both research and design -- goes back, however, to the Children's Environments Project in which Professors Uriel Cohen, Tim McGinty, and Gary Moore were co-principal investigators starting in 1978. Since that time, many grants have been received and projects completed, awards received, books, reports, and articles published, and consulting contracts completed. Many students have graduated from the program, other masters and doctoral students have joined the group, and several post-doctoral visiting scholars have been a part of the group. The group is fluid and open to new members and their interests. The activities of the group do not revolve around any one person, but around the activities and interests of all of the people who choose to be part of the group. Current members of the group include Ph.D. students Sandarshi Gunawardena and Shan Sivakumaran; recent graduates Dr. Jefferey Lackney, Sanyog Rathod and Nancy Genich; and visiting scholar Dr. Naohiko Hayata.

The group is currently engaged in or thinking about starting a number of research and design projects focused on children, youth, and their environments. Together with other major activities in which the group is involved, they are listed in the table of contents and briefly outlined in the following pages. This site, therefore, constitutes an informal strategic plan for the Children's Environments Research and Desigh Group for 1996-97.

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