Watch DJ Trischler and Hayden Shelby explore what it means to design within neighborhoods through the perspectives of a planner and a designer — where big-picture strategy meets on-the-ground realities, and how collaboration leads to more thoughtful, grounded outcomes.
For artist and assistant professor Wes Modes, rivers are sites of memory, conflict, and survival. Through A Secret History of American River People, he travels the country's waterways collecting stories of communities living and displaced along America's urban edges.
The Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows Program brings returned volunteers' global experience into UC classrooms and local community work. As it marks 20 years at DAAP, professor Johanna Looye reflects on how it reshapes students.
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In 1921, Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García attended a Society of Independent Artists costume party at the Waldorf Astoria, wearing a white jumpsuit painted with the New York City skyline — the Times building over his heart, the Bronx running up the back of his neck.
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June 4, 2026
UC-connected band The National, co-founded by DAAP alumni, has been named to The New York Times Magazine readers’ list of the 100 Greatest Living American Songwriters.
May 28, 2026
CityBeat highlighted an indie horror video game set in Crosley Tower, a 16-story classroom and lab building under demolition at the University of Cincinnati.
May 26, 2026
A group of University of Cincinnati students from the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning traveled to Florida for the annual National Association of Home Builders student competition. The UC team's proposal earned first place.