ARCTIC DESIGN GROUP

Arctic Design Studios

Since 2013
Directors
  • Leena Cho, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
  • Matthew Jull, Associate Professor, Architecture
  • Katherine Shi, Research Assistant
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THE ARCTIC DESIGN GROUP (ADG) at the University of Virginia has been bringing students in architecture and landscape architecture to various parts of the Arctic since 2015 to learn from one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing regions on Earth. Undergraduate and graduate students in these design studios are able to participate in highly collaborative design research informing science and community action. The funded trips are typically organized as part of traveling design studios  sponsored by numerous research and cultural organizations.
2025 City Built on Thawing Ground (traveling, fall)
2024 City Built on Thawing Ground (traveling, fall)
2023 Navigating the New Arctic (traveling, winter)
2021 Landing Nome
2020 Ground (traveling, winter)
2017 Altered States: Experiments in Design for Extreme Cold Climates (traveling, fall)
2016 Shishmaref: what does it take to move a village? (fall)
2015 Northern Futures in Svalbard (traveling, fall)
2014 Arctic Design Group - Rethinking Fundamentals (fall)
2013 Arctic Studio: Guide to Arctic Urbanization and Architecture (fall)