Conway’s small size and combination of full time faculty and part-time faculty working in the field allows the school to integrate new topics into the curriculum. For example, over the course of the past ten years the school has added food system plans to […]
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The Conway School extends a warm welcome to Greg Watson as our 2017 Commencement Speaker. Greg has been a long-time friend of and guest lecturer at the Conway School, bringing his perspectives on food systems, agriculture, economics, and community development to the curriculum. Greg’s work with […]
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The following piece, with a selection from the collection of photos, is published in the 2017 issue of con’text. Costa Rica: The name conjures images of rich dense vegetation spilling down hills to pristine beaches, but these landscapes are threatened. With […]
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Tim is a current student and member of the class of 2017. This essay was inspired by his work with GIS during the winter term, where student projects are larger, planning scale projects. For their winter term project, Time and his classmate Andrew […]
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from isolated food production toward a complex local food system Header image: East Lake Urban Farm, from Photo Voice Across Atlanta, site by site, a new food system is emerging. It is a system scaling up from isolated farms and gardens to […]
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This is the second post in a series by Rachel Jackson ’12, recipient of the 2014-2015 David Bird International Service Fellowship. She shares the following reflection from her trip to Fiji, where she worked with a rural family to implement soil conservation and sustainable agricultural techniques on their family […]
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Rachel Jackson ’12 is the recipient of the 2014-2015 David Bird International Service Fellowship. She shares the following reflection from her trip to Fiji, where she worked with a rural family to implement soil conservation and sustainable agricultural techniques on their family farm. Food is a passion and […]
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This year through special partnerships Conway students are working on projects in Mali, West Africa, and Costa Rica. These international projects add tremendously to the diversity of planning and design issues our students work on. They were arranged by Kate Cairoli ’13 and funded by the Blue Yak […]
Read full storyThis winter and spring, the Conway School presented Smaller Cities | Greener Futures, a series of four public lectures in communities around the region. Each lecture focused on issues relevant to small, post-industrial cities, because of the significant social and infrastructure resources […]
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In the spring term, students work in teams of two or three on community projects, providing design solutions that strive to fit the particular needs of the clients to the specific ecology of the site and uphold the school’s mission. Comments received at […]
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