Advisory Board
Donald W. Aitken, Ph.D.
DONALD AITKEN ASSOCIATES
Consulting Scientist
Ed Begley, Jr.
Actor / Environmental Advocate
Steve Bornstein
Consultant
Christopher Flavin, President
WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE
Jean A. Gardner, Director
EARTH GROUP
Sara Nichols
Environmental Attorney
Walter Scott Perry, Architect
S E ARCH
William Roley, Ph.D., Director
PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Michael Rotondi FAIA
ROTO ARCHITECTS, INC.
Steven J Strong, President
SOLAR DESIGN ASSOCIATES
Mary Tucker
Environmental Services Specialist
CITY OF SAN JOSE
Robert Wilkinson
Lecturer, Environmental Studies
UC SANTA BARBARA
DONALD BREN SCHOOL |
Jean A. Gardner
Founder and Director
gardnerj@newschool.edu
EARTH GROUP
Jean Gardner has been teaching design students about the relationships between architecture, cities, and ecological systems since 1968. Currently, she teaches a seminar on Issues and Practices in Modern Architecture and Urbanism in the Graduate Department of Architecture, Interior design, and Lighting, Parson The School for Design, The New School University, New York City. This course received special recognition in the 2005 National AIA Ecological Literacy Initiative. She also teaches a course on Nature, Culture and Design for undergraduates and has been honored with a Distinguished Teaching Runner-up Award at The New School University. She has taught at Columbia and Cornell Universities and the Pratt Institute.
Ms Gardner is a New Media Specialist. She published with Brian McGrath Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today, Wiley-Academy (2007), which is the first book to explore the losing of perspective and the finding of duration as the computer becomes the prevalent drawing tool. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470026693.html
Ms. Gardner is a founding member of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education. In early 1990 Gardner spearheaded the founding and organizing of Environment'90s, a coalition of over 250 groups working for the environmental health of New York City. The result was the publication of a landmark environmental program for the city, detailing actions to be taken in seven key areas to ensure the city's long-term health and vitality.
As Co-chair of the Association of Colligate Schools of Architecture Task Force on Sustainable Design, Ms. Gardner helped organize 'Sustainable Pedagogies and Practices', the 2003 ACSA/AIA Teachers' Seminar. With The Rockwell Group, she exhibited 'the Hall of Risk', in the 2002 Venice Biennale.
Ms. Gardner's students who credit her with having inspired them to their life's work include New York Times Architectural Critic, Herbert Muschamp; Chief Environment Officer for the NYC Parks Department, Paul Berrizi; Founder of Public Markets Collaborative, Hilary Baum; Executive Director for The Project for Public Spaces, Kathy Madden; and, President and Founder Global Possibilities, Casey Coates Danson.
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