SAID collaborates with the other schools within the college and other colleges within the university on a wide range of topics including urban design, preservation, ecology, urban development and redevelopment, and gender studies. We have formal partnerships with the École Spéciale d’Architecture and the École Nationale Superieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; the Hochschule für Technik in Stuttgart; Beijing Jiaotong University; and CEPT in India. In addition, we have worked formal and informal research projects in publication with the University of Bordeaux, Yale University, Columbia University, Temple University and programs in Mexico City. Studios and students have travelled in recent years to Greece, Italy, Mexico, China, India, Tanzania, Germany, Spain, Romania, and France as part of the curricular work of the school.
In collaboration with the School of Planning, SAID has opened the Orville Simpson Urban Futures Center is a newly established centre in the University’s Innovation Center. It will focus on regional issues involving the Ohio River, as well as broader initiatives in sustainable urban futures, mobility, public housing, ecology, and social justice. Topics of recent studios and studio research publications include affordable housing, preservation of urban cultural centres, mass transit and new transit-oriented development, the future of food, the future of public housing, informal urbanism in Latin America, the future of work, the rehabilitation of former coal mining towns, and the future of small towns and rural communities in the Midwest. Faculty and students take pride in engagement on these issues with public and private interest groups. These areas of research, coupled with our coop internship program, provide students, faculty, and our partners with platforms for in-depth investigation on a wide range of topics.
