August 27, 2010 - GCCDS Mapping featured on NPR. A GCCDS map showing recovery and unmet needs along the Gulf Coast was featured in an August 23rd story on Biloxi’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina on NPR’s “All Things Considered." Listen to the story and see the map here.
August 2, 2010 - Floodproof Construction Research Project blog goes live. The GCCDS' floodproof construction research team launches a blog documenting our research and process. View it here.
July 1 & 2, 2010 – GCCDS is hosting Moss Point @ Play, an exhibit about our parks! View the invitation here.
The Gulf Coast Community Design Studio is accepting applications for a Planner. The planner will work in Biloxi, Mississippi along with the GCCDS staff of fifteen planners, landscape architects, architects and interns. The planner will work on a range of community planning projects at regional, city and neighborhood scales. Qualifications for the position are a professional degree in urban planning, urban design or architecture and five years of planning experience. Duties include leading planning and design projects at a range of scales, organizing and participating in community planning meetings, using GIS mapping and planning tools, and supervising the work of design interns. For more information about the GCCDS and the planner position, applicants are welcome to contact the GCCDS director, David Perkes: dperkes@gccds.msstate.edu. Applications should be completed on Mississippi State University’s Human Resources website under the Architecture department.
April 16, 2010 - GCCDS is hosting Made in Moss Point, an exhibit featurng crafts by artists of Moss Point. View the invitation as a pdf here.
The SEC Academic Network features a video about the GCCDS. You can view it here.
The December education issue of Architecture lists Mississippi State University School of Architecture as one of three national schools leading in community design in part because of the work of the GCCDS. Link to their website here.
New Public Design Intern Program announced. GCCDS invites young professionals to earn a Certificate in Public Design, starting August 2010. See more details here.
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The Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (GCCDS) is a professional service and outreach program of Mississippi State University’s College of Architecture, Art + Design. The GCCDS was established in Biloxi, Mississippi in response to Hurricane Katrina to provide architectural design services, landscape and planning assistance, educational opportunities and research to organizations and communities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The GCCDS works through close, pragmatic partnerships with local organizations and communities. In Biloxi, the GCCDS shares work space with a key local partner, the Hope Community Development Agency – a relationship that brings the office into direct and continuous contact with the community’s needs and resources. The GCCDS works with non-profit organizations, local governments, universities, developers and other partners in all three of Mississippi’s coastal counties, putting professional expertise to work in order to shape vibrant and resilient Gulf Coast communities.
To provide leadership that advances the local, regional, and national dialogue on issues of design, affordable housing, coastal resiliency, and sustainable development.
To expand design education by providing opportunities for students and interns to explore community-based design, design-build, and sustainability.
Partnerships
Enterprise Community Partners supports a Rose Fellow in the GCCDS. Seth Welty works on various housing projects and interacts with other Gulf Coast partners to create affordable and sustainable housing.
Link to Seth's page on the Rose Fellow Website.
Link to The Rose Fellow Blog.
American Institute of Architecture Mississippi
Architecture for Humanity
Apostolic Christian World Relief
Auburn University
Back Bay Mission
Biloxi Housing Authority
Boston Architectural College
Carl Small Town Center
CARRI
The City of Biloxi
The City of Moss Point
Compassion First - BFS Relief
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Design Corps
ESRI
Enterprise Community Partners
Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship
Fuller Center
GISCorps
Gulf Coast Community Foundation
Habitat for Humanity Bay-Waveland
Habitat for Humanity Mississippi Gulf Coast
Hancock Housing Resource Center
Hands On Gulf Coast
Hope CDA
Hope Force International
HUD’s Universities Rebuilding America
Partnership
Institute for Sustainable Communities
Knight Foundation
Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Mercy Housing & Human Development
Mississippi State University
Mississippi Center for Justice
MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning
MSU College of Architecture, Art + Design
National Endowment for the Arts
NAVASA
North Gulfport Community Land Trust
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
Renaissance Corporation
The Salvation Army
Samaritan's Purse
SERRI
Small Business Administration
South Central Arc User Group
State of Mississippi
University of Minnesota
Urban Life Ministries
Warm Welcome Gulf Coast
Warnke Community Consulting
Youth Build
