ABOUT US
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As a think tank and catalyst, the Hamer Center supports collaborative research projects, facilitates dialogue between the academic and practitioner communities, and recognizes excellence in planning and design from an international perspective. We are guided by geometries of change at four scales —citizenship, community, public, and democracy. To this end, Hamer shares educational resources, serves as a forum for collaboration, facilitates networking, connects funding to initiatives, and promotes practice and research projects connected to Penn State faculty and students.
We assume an intermediary role between individuals and agencies, linking expertise at Penn State with local communities and forming partnerships with government agencies, non-profit organizations, and citizen groups that are creating an inclusive public commons. Our online community provides a forum for topics related to the role of design in public discourse, democratic practice, and citizen participation. Funding and grant opportunities enhance our efforts by allowing us to deliver financial support to worthy initiatives. All of this is designed to elevate the impact of thoughtful community design and is made possible through a generous endowment from the Don Hamer Foundation.
Hamer Center for Community Design 105 Stuckeman Family Building, University Park, PA 16802 Peter Aeschbacher, Director of Design <bio> Brad Guy, Associate Researcher <bio> Michael Rios, Director of Research <bio> Design Research Associates (past & present) Nicholas Ciarimboli, B.Arch 2005 (PSU) MaraLee Gabler, R.L.A. Shaun Patchell, B.Arch 2005 (PSU)
SALA Faculty Affiliates (past & present) Peter Aeschbacher , Department of Landscape Architecture Richard Alden , Department of Architecture Pier Bandini , Department of Architecture Jason Boris , Department of Architecture Caru Bowns , Department of Landscape Architecture George Dickie , Department of Landscape Architecture Stuart Echols , Department of Landscape Architecture Kelleann Foster , Department of Landscape Architecture Christine Gorby , Department of Architecture Jawaid Haider , Department of Architecture Timothy Johnson , Department of Landscape Architecture Loukas Kalisperis , Department of Architecture Neil Korostoff , Department of Landscape Architecture Bret Peters, Department of Architecture Michael Rios , Department of Landscape Architecture Ken Tamminga , Department of Landscape Architecture Dan Willis , Department of Architecture Scott Wing , Department of Architecture Tom Yahner , Department of Landscape Architecture
Student Affiliates Kenneth A. Hendrickson , Department of Landscape Architecture Carolina Silva , Department of Landscape Architecture
American Indian Housing Initiative Association for Community Design Building Materials Reuse Association Community Housing Resource Center Institute for Local Self-Reliance Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy Pennsylvania Advocates for Nutrition and Activity US-Brazil Consortium on Sustainable Urbanism US EPA Deconstruction and Reuse
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