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Regenerative Governance: Building Ethical Sustainability Through Leadership Balance and Shared Power

This poster presents Regenerative Governance, a sustainability framework that unites ethics, decision-making, and leadership balance into one system. It explores how shared power, cultural respect, environmental restoration, and economic inclusion can work interdependently to restore and enhance social and ecological systems. Through reflective visuals and discussion prompts, attendees will examine how regenerative governance can transform institutions into models of inclusive and ethical sustainability.

From Molecules to Masterpieces: A Fusion of Chemistry and Ceramic Art Through Pigment Synthesis

These posters and exhibit celebrates the various types of research (including arts and science) and how they often overlap, showcasing the affordances for artist researchers and scientists to create new forms of co-produced knowledge and engagement.

Teaching Environmental Values Across Built Environment Disciplines

The built environment contributes significantly to both environmental resource use and degradation, but there is a need to offer courses on environmental values to a wider array of students to develop leaders in sustainability across the full range of built environment disciplines. The Environmental Values Reading Seminar exposes students to new material and perspectives in order to help them understand the complex nature of human-environmental interactions, reflect on conflicts and trade-offs of environmental actions, rethink relationships between humans and other species, and learn about and critique actionable frameworks and concepts. The course structure and pedagogical strategies encourage discussion and reflection, focusing on how the material can shape their practice and perspective as professionals. The project highlights the interest, impact, and opportunity of such courses in fields that may traditionally lack an environmental focus, in the built environments and beyond.

Organizing a Student-Led, Student-Funded, and Long-Lasting Campus Sustainability Fund Committee

The Campus Sustainability Fund is structured to maximize student voice and influence within our organization and the UW Seattle Campus. Hear from the students of the committee about how the UW-Seattle Campus Sustainability Fund has organized their Committee to promote sustainability and maximize student impact on campus.

Engrained Is Our Story: A Quilted Seed Bank for a More Resilient WA food system

Eight quilted seedbank squares artistically archive living memories and agricultural wisdoms of indigenous, immigrant, and allied heritage food protectors in Washington state. Each quilt square contains a viable seed that can be replanted, as well as an art piece contributed by an artist with close relationship to the seeds preserved in this bank. Our stories, curated together offer possibility for a more nourishing, climate resilient, socially just, local food system.

University Camping Equipment Renovation for Unhoused Individuals in the Greater Seattle Area

Through equipment repurposing, we can create an equitable framework that promotes the health and safety of unhoused community members. Within public health nursing, we can intertwine environmental health principles , social determinants of health and the precautionary principles in order to change health outcomes for unhoused individuals.

Scalable Design to Achieve High Density without Sacrificing Livability; Supporting an Affordable Community-Driven Urban Lifestyle

A case study of the Oregon State University - Hatfield Marine Science Center Harborton Housing project recently completed with 71 modular housing units. The project consists of modular individual units laid out for maximum efficiency, flexibly configured around communal living, cooking and dining space. Appealing to a spectrum of people in search of sustainable living arrangements and the cultural connections of a tight knit community like a OSU HMSC.

A First-of-Its-Kind Mass Timber Lab: Oregon State University, Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex

The Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex at Oregon State University (OSU) is designed as a catalyst for the university’s science programs that will foster the collaboration among faculty, students, and the private sector. The facility will be the first all-mass-timber laboratory in the US that meets rigorous vibration criteria (2000 MIPS) for experimental research labs. Learn from project partners at Oregon State University, ZGF Architects, AEI, and KPFF Engineers.