UF students to unveil design ideas for Plum Creek lands in eastern Alachua County
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — On Thursday, Jan. 26, University of Florida students from the College of Design, Construction and Planning will showcase their creative ideas for sustainable design and agricultural urbanism for a real-life place — Plum Creek’s 17,000 acres of land in eastern Alachua County. The student presentations are the culmination of an academic exercise coordinated by University of Florida professors Martin Gold, Pierce Jones, Mary Padua and Kathleen Rupert in partnership with Plum Creek.
Under the direction of these instructors, the students spent a semester designing a vision of how Plum Creek might conserve and develop its lands in east Alachua County. The community is invited to see the students’ vision and hear from their professors at Plum Creek’s Envision Alachua Models of Innovation forum beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Models of Innovation is a free series of educational forums sponsored by Plum Creek in support of the Envision Alachua process. Envision Alachua is a community planning process to discuss future economic, environmental and community opportunities in Alachua County on lands owned by Plum Creek. For more information, visit www.EnvisionAlachua.com.
CONTACT: April Salter
850-681-3200; 850-508-7040 cell
april.salter@saltermitchell.com
WHAT:
Models of Innovation Series — Innovations from the University of Florida
WHEN:
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
TIME:
6:30 to 9 p.m.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for viewing of the student designs
WHO:
Hosted by Plum Creek
WHERE:
Phillips Center at the University of Florida
315 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Pierce Jones, professor and director, Program for Resource Efficient Communities, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida
Mary Padua, associate professor, University of Florida School of Architecture, department of landscape architecture
Martin Gold, AIA, director and associate professor, University of Florida School of Architecture and executive director, Florida Community Design Center
Plum Creek is the largest and most geographically diverse private landowner in the nation with approximately 6.7 million acres of timberlands in the United States. In Florida, Plum Creek practices sustainable forestry on approximately 590,000 acres in 22 counties. For more information about Plum Creek in Florida, visit www.plumcreek.com/florida.