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Thinking about graduate study in design, planning, real estate, or the built environment? The College of Environmental Design’s graduate programs are hosting info sessions, open houses, and panels this fall. Join us!

🗓️UPCOMING ADMISSIONS EVENTS & INFO SESSIONS

UC Berkeley Graduate Diversity Fair
–Master of Urban Design (MUD): Tue, Oct. 6, 4 PM
–Master of Design (MDes) Career Pathways & Alumni Panel: Thu, Oct. 8, 9 AM
–Design the Future: Architecture Grad Programs: Thu, Oct. 8, 1 PM

Architecture Info Sessions
Learn about graduate architecture degrees with faculty and advisors.
–Mon, Oct. 12, 12 PM
–Thu, Nov. 5, 9 AM
–Application Walkthrough: Fri, Dec. 4, 5 PM

Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Info Session
Join Chair Dorotheé Imbert & advisors for curriculum details, degree tracks, and faculty Q&A.
–Wed, Nov. 4, 5 PM

City & Regional Planning Info Sessions
Join MCP Chair Charisma Acey & advisors to explore the program and application process.
–Tue, Sept. 29, 10 AM
–Tue, Oct. 20, 10 AM
–Tue, Nov. 24, 10 AM

Urban & Regional Development
Master of Urban Design (MUD) Info Sessions
Discover the interdisciplinary curriculum, admissions process, design studios, and career paths.
–Tue, Nov. 10, 10:30 AM
–Wed, Dec. 9, 5 PM

Abbey Master of Real Estate Development + Design (MRED+D) Info Sessions
Explore funding, student life, career outcomes, and applications tips. Also join us for an industry panel and open house.
–Tue, Oct. 6, 4 PM
–On-Campus & Virtual Open House: Mon, Oct. 19, 10:45 AM

Master of Design (MDes) Info Sessions
Get an inside look at the curriculum, resources, and community.
–Curriculum Overview w/ Faculty Director Kyle Steinfeld: Tue, Oct. 20, 4 PM
–In-Person Visit Day: Thu, Nov. 5, 1 PM

Arcus Social Justice Corps Fellowship Info Sessions
For grads driven to create transformational social change through planning, research, and design.
–Tue, Oct. 13, 11 AM
–Thu, Nov. 12, 11 AM
–Thu, Dec. 10, 11 AM

Head to the link in bio to register for a virtual or in-person session. We look forward to meeting you!
🔗ced.berkeley.edu/admissions/graduate-admissions Graduate Info Session

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This Tuesday, 5:30 PM @Jacobs Hall: Josette Melchor is a founder and cultural strategist working across art, technology, cities, and responsible AI.

As the founder of Gray Area and now Newtemporary — as well as Google’s global lead on “placemaking” and a board member of the Burning Man Project — Josette has spent her career shaping experiences that connect emerging technologies with civic life, cultural infrastructure, and public imagination.

In this talk, Josette will reflect on how design can respond to impermanence, support community meaning-making, and help shape the cultural infrastructure of the future.

Free and open to the public!
RSVP and see the whole lineup: https://luma.com/DesignFieldNotes

#designeducation
#designleadership  #designcareers  #designfieldnotes
#UCBerkeley

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New year, new beginnings 📌. It's been great welcoming everyone to Bauer Wurster Hall. We wish you a successful year ahead!

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We’re delighted to share the news that internationally recognized architect, urbanist, and scholar Nicholas de Monchaux has been named the new William W. Wurster Dean of the College of Environmental Design. This is a return to UC Berkeley for de Monchaux (@de_monchaux) who was professor of architecture and urban design at CED from 2006 to 2019.

De Monchaux's creative and intellectual interests align with UC Berkeley’s (@ucberkeleyofficial) forward-looking ethos and its global leadership in innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. Fascinated by the relationships between technology and urbanism, digital simulation and world-building, sci-fi and architecture, de Monchaux is renowned as a visionary thinker about design and its relationship to society.

De Monchaux is currently head of the Department of Architecture at MIT (@mitarchitecture), where he is Weber-Shaughness professor of architecture, professor of urban studies and planning, and affiliated faculty with the program in Science, Technology and Society.

“CED powerfully shaped every way in which I think about design and its responsibility in the world,” says de Monchaux. “I am thrilled to return to the college and support its mission at a time when it has never been more relevant.”

Please join us in welcoming Nicholas de Monchaux back to CED!

Read the full announcement on our website: https://ced.berkeley.edu/news/nicholas-de-monchaux-appointed-dean-uc-berkeley-ced

Images:
1 – Nicholas de Monchaux, courtesy MIT.
2 – modem (@modemgram) (Nicholas de Monchaux + Kathryn Moll), Space/Suit, installation at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.
3 – Nicholas de Monchaux, Local Code: 3659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities, Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.
4 – modem and Smout/Allen, Ascents, Events, Implements, installation at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
5 – Nicholas de Monchaux, Local Code San Francisco Case Study, 2010, installation in The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2012. Photo: Matthew Millman.
6 – Nicholas de Monchaux, Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes (exhibition design), MCA Chicago, 2013. Nicholas de Monchaux

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Congratulations to the Class of 2026! 🎓 As you head out to shape the world, we leave you with this reminder from our keynote speakers Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu: “Know what home means to you, and let that be the ground you build from.”

Hats off, graduates! 💙

#CalCommencement2026 #CalGrad #UCBerkeley #CED

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It was my great honor, as a representative of the Master of Urban Design program at CED, UC Berkeley, to deliver a speech at the Greek Theatre. Happy graduation! And hope we all have bright futures, while always remember to look up to the sky. Fiat Lux✨

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Looking back at last week’s spring final reviews. Congrats to all our students on completing another semester!

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1: CP 208 – Collaborative Plan Preparation Studio, Instructor: Jane Lin
2, 3: LA 200B – Case Studies in Landscape Design, Instructor: Du Solier @hooddesignstudio
LA 202 – Designs of Landscape Sites, Instructors: Rivera @danielle.z.rivera, Domlesky
LA 204 – Advanced Project Design, Instructor: Meyer @meyerstudiola
4, 5: ARCH 204B – Thesis Studio, Instructors: Anderson @andersonandersonarchitecture, Davids, Gutierrez, Jaehning @davidjaehningarchitect
ARCH 100D – Architectural Design IV, Instructors: Miley, Riley
6: RDEV 270 – Development + Design Studio, Instructors: Smidek, Kennerly
ENV DES 253 – Thesis Studio, Instructors: Mozingo, Gaffney
7, 8: ARCH 100D – Architectural Design IV, Instructors: Atwood @first_office_architecture, Hu and Huang @neriandhu
9: ARCH 204B – Thesis Studio, Instructors: Anderson, Davids, Gutierrez, Jaehning

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Announcing the CED 2026 Commencement student speakers! We look forward to hearing their inspiring words on May 19 at the Greek Theatre.

Amy Bella Gonzalez, BA Landscape Architecture
Amy is a first-generation Latina graduating with a degree in landscape architecture and business administration. Amy founded LBSA’s first consulting committee to help create more accessible opportunities for underrepresented minorities within the consulting industry. As financial director for Invention Corps, she helped raise over $15,000. Amy hopes to inspire others to pursue their passions fearlessly.

Zeyu Lin, Master of Urban Design
Zeyu's work examines how technological change reshapes cities, and how urban design can respond by centering social justice and human care. At UC Berkeley, he has worked across the Bay Area and beyond, engaging contexts from North Richmond’s community-based networks to Olympic legacy redevelopment in Los Angeles. With a background in landscape architecture, he approaches urban design as a way to reconnect systems, places, and people in everyday urban life.

Yutong Li, Master of City Planning
A lifelong student of cities, Yutong is interested in affordable housing development, transportation policy, and urban analytics. From Suzhou, China, she received a BS from New York University Shanghai in finance and urban studies. At CED, she deepened her understanding of how housing, mobility, finance, and community needs intersect. Post-MCP, she is committed to advancing sustainable and equitable community development.

Nathan Shui, PhD in Architecture
Nathan’s research explores the queer urban history of postsocialist China, focusing on how sexual minorities reappropriate state-led urban modernization to create spaces of their own. By tracing how queer Chinese identify and inhabit the loopholes, blind spots, and unintended counterproductivities within these state-led modernizing programs, he advances an alternative conception of queer spatial agency rooted in passivity, evasion, opacity, and impermanence illegible to Western liberal queer discourses.

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Intertidal Allotment Lecture presented by Andrew Merritt and Something&Son // Save the date for April 22nd at Wurster Auditorium

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Thank you to all the artists ! We had an amazing gallery of 14 artists at the event, mediums ranging from photography to quilting to landscape design, and more! Each artist presented their piece and talked about the process, meaning, and importance of their work. We appreciate everyone who made the time to make, bring, and pin up their work, as well as to everyone who helped with the meticulous set-up and clean-up of the event.

pic credits: @ninhpractice and @dairyqueen2014

#cedberkeley #landscapearchitecture #architecture #loudreaders #namla

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