Gulf Futures Design Studios
The Gulf Futures Design Studio Program (GFDS) is a multi-year, multi-institution, interdisciplinary design studio network grant at higher education institutions in the Gulf states. The program includes a set of design studio courses and research activities that seek to build the capacity of Gulf region colleges and universities to prepare the next generation of professionals to identify, visualize, explore, and propose solutions to local and regional critical issues in the Gulf region.
Closed
Any project, supported or not by a committee, that has not deposited records to the Records Office.
Awarded 2024
Building on the 2022 pilot phase of the Gulf Futures Design Studio program, The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies developed an expanded grant program to prepare the next generation of design, architecture, and urban development-related professionals with the capacity to identify, visualize, explore, and propose design thinking and interdisciplinary solutions to critical local and regional issues in the Gulf region.
Note: Phase II of the program was designed as an invited grant cycle.
Awarded Projects
- Gulf Adaptation Design Studio (Auburn University)
- GulfSouth Studio (University of Florida)
- Louisiana Ecosystem Design: Building Resilience Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Louisiana State University)
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Collaborative Studio (Mississippi State University)
- Gulf Coast Climate Futures: Explorations in Regionally Regenerative Design (Tulane University)
- Gulf Adaptive Urban Systems Studio: Shaping the Gulf Coast of Tomorrow (University of Houston)
- The Gulf Coast Megaregion (Rice University)
- (Prairie View A&M University)
Awarded 2022
In Spring 2022, The Gulf Research Program (GRP) sought to partner with universities in the Gulf States through a grant series to develop a multi-year, collaborative interdisciplinary design studio courses to engage undergraduate and graduate students in exploring major issues facing the Gulf region. During this pilot phase, participating schools worked with the GRP to conceptualize, develop, and pilot these design studio courses over 2022-2023 academic year. The GRP planned to strategically use the lessons and successes of the pilot year to design an expanded version of the course in subsequent phases.
- In 2023, The Gulf Research Program determined to extend the pilot phase to an additional year (2023-2024) to ncrease the information collected about the program, assess leassons learned, evaluation needs, and provide recommendations for subsequent phases.
Awarded Projects
- Gulf Landscape Infrastructure Pilot (Auburn University)
- GulfSouth (University of Florida)
- Louisiana Coastal Studio — (Louisiana State University)
- Gulf Coast Studio: The New Blue Economy Coastline (Mississippi State University)
- A Louisiana-Based Interdisciplinary Research Design Studio Exploring Gulf Coast Futures (Tulane University)