About the Student Award
The JSR Foundation provides scholarship support to landscape architecture students throughout the Rocky Mountain Region (Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Nevada), and has historically recognized exceptional student projects. The scholarship award to include two possible tracks:
STUDENT PROJECT: To recognize a completed student project that demonstrates excellence in the field of landscape architecture, OR
COMMUNITY SERVICE: To support student work with community organizations, municipalities, and non-profit institutions which would benefit from student assistance with design or research that they would not typically be able to afford.
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2023 JSR Student Award Winner
EMILY BEESON | GARDEN REFUGE: SUPPORTING SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WITH THERAPUTIC, NATURE-BASED LANDSCAPE INTERVENTIONS
Project overview
In an 8-week vertical studio, Emily asked the question, “What more can landscape architecture bring to the provision of emergency shelter for survivors of domestic violence?”
Through this project, Emily explored whether the provision of beautifully-designed, supportive, healthy, and trauma-informed crisis shelter gardens--with focuses on meeting children’s needs while also providing therapeutic natural spaces—could enable survivors to regain a sense of safety so they can open themselves to more active therapeutic interventions. And further, could this provision contain the potential to help break the cycle of family violence?
Read more by viewing Emily’s project below.
MEET emily
Emily Beeson is a third-year MLA student at the University of Colorado Denver. Prior to grad school, Emily was an archivist and writer in the private, non-profit, and public spheres. Her passions for art, writing, universal design and disability rights research, domestic violence fundraising and development, and ecology have provided lenses through which she views potentials for landscape architecture. When she's not working, Emily enjoys gardening and exploring Colorado with her family.
Over the coming year, Emily will research how outdoor environments can serve Survivors and the necessary and myriad functions that occur within domestic violence shelters. She will also explore how the outdoor space can serve as a therapeutic tool in its own right, which may help contribute to Survivors regaining a sense of safety. This is a critical step to achieve before more active therapeutic interventions can occur.
Past JSR Student Award Winners
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2023 - Emily Beeson | University of Colorado Denver
2022 - Katie Finnigan | University of Colorado Denver
2022 - Andrea Kraft | University of Colorado Denver
2020 - Hollis Moore | University of New Mexico
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2017 - Jonathan Staker | The Ohio State University
2016 - Elizabeth Philbrick | Colorado State University
2015 - Tucker Hancock | University of Colorado Denver
2014 - Kate Davenport | University of Colorado Denver
2013 - Xinyu Li | University of Colorado Denver
2012 - Matthew Annabel | University of Colorado Denver
2011 - Darren Duroux | Colorado State University
2010 - Michael T. Brown | Colorado State University
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2009 - Yekaterina | University of New Mexico
2007 - Jenn Thomas | University of Colorado Denver
2006 - Megan French | Colorado State University
2006 - Pamela Cornelisse | University of Colorado Denver
2005 - Emily Goldman | Colorado State University
2005 - Brian Cook | Colorado State University
2004 - Maeve Nevins | Colorado State University
2004 - Laurie Stanton | University of Colorado Denver
2003 - Kaitlin Beatty | Colorado State University
2003 - Michael McConnell | University of Colorado Denver
2002 - Jessica Canfield | Colorado State University
2002 - Michael Bouchard | University of Colorado Denver
2001 - Ashley Corbett | Colorado State University
2001 - Thomas Sunderland | University of Colorado Denver
2001 - Yuka Yoshida | Colorado State University