News, events, + updates from the world of ecological design
Introducing the Class of 2022! L to R in photo above: Amanda Marquis (Burlington, VT), Haly Rylko (Seattle, WA), Rachel Tanzer (Arden, DE), Karen Tassinari (Wilbraham, MA), Genevieve Goldleaf (Schenectady, NY), Carlin Roland (Hancock, NH), Claire Baglien (Minneapolis, MN), Hope […]
Read full storyOn June 20 this year, we observe Juneteenth, now a federal holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. It was celebrated first in 1866 in Texas, one year from when African Americans first learned of the […]
Read full storyHow do folks wind up on our Board of Trustees? Bill Sayre shares his journey – from a Long Island childhood to a 70’s communal farm in Maine, to professional furniture making – that eventually led him to the Conway […]
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Student Project Presentations Friday, May 27th via ZOOM Registration Required (see below) The year has flown by, and Conway’s Class of 2022 is working on their final spring planning projects. The projects that students manage in the spring are complex, […]
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Climate change impacts on public health. Multi-species coexistence. Indigenous planning and place knowing in design. Biodiversity in agriculture. Race, privilege, class, and art in horticultural history and practice. Conservation solutions for managed landscapes. The intersection of Islamic cosmology and ecological […]
Read full storyIn this month’s Convo we meet the school’s wearer of many hats, Elaine Williamson. Elaine is a caretaker in so many aspects of the school and of her own life. She helps current students as Registrar, stewards our graduates […]
Read full storyWe hope you enjoyed the first installment of our Conway Convo series with Haly Rylko back in January. (If you missed it, you can read it here.) Our next participant from the Conway community is Mohamad Chakaki, arriving to us […]
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Student Project Presentations Friday, February 25 via ZOOM Registration Required (see below) This winter term, Conway’s Class of 2022 is working on planning projects in towns and cities across Massachusetts and Vermont. For this set of presentations, students will present works […]
Read full storyThe past few years have been incredibly life-changing for communities around the world, and Conway’s is no exception. As opportunities to convene and get to know each other organically have been scaled back into near-nonexistence, we’ve had to reach out […]
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Students observe the landscape in the Paradise Lot garden during orientation week, Fall 2021 As designers, we know that often constraints are our friends. A silver lining of the upheaval caused by the pandemic has been the success of our […]
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