{"id":10147,"date":"2017-01-12T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:23:55","slug":"watershed-visioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/watershed-visioning\/","title":{"rendered":"College Convenes Key Watershed Stakeholders in New Visioning Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now much more than a studio, the Tennessee River Project kicked off at the Jan. 9 workshop, where discussion covered topics from economy to ecology, tourism to transportation and conservation to climate change.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"10148\" style=\"max-width: 302px\" class=\"alignleft none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10148\" src=\"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/assets\/2016_0902-Ft-Loudoun-Lock_500x350.jpg\" alt=\"2016_0902-ft-loudoun-lock_500x350\" width=\"302\" height=\"223\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In September 2016, students in the College of Architecture and Design <a href=\"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/rivertour\/\">traveled the Tennessee River<\/a>, researching for their studio designs and ultimately taking the first steps\u00a0toward a broader visioning effort for the entire watershed.<\/p>\n<p>On their journey, students in the <a href=\"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/about\/governorschair\/\">Governor\u2019s Chair<\/a> Tennessee River Studio, along with their professor, Brad Collett, met face-to-face with people who influence or are influenced by the river, and four months later, students welcomed many of those stakeholders to UT\u2019s campus to begin an exciting, perhaps unique think tank to protect and support the waters of the Tennessee Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Now much more than a studio, the Tennessee River Project kicked off at the Jan. 9 workshop, where discussion covered topics from economy to ecology, tourism to transportation and conservation to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m impressed with the students\u2019 work and see value in pulling together all of these pieces from across the 900-mile watershed,\u201d said Jack Fellows, director of the<figure id=\"10152\" style=\"max-width: 426px\" class=\"alignright none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10152\" src=\"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/assets\/Good-IMG_2696-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"good-img_2696\" width=\"426\" height=\"311\" \/><\/figure> Climate Change Science Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a participant in the consortium. \u201cI believe this can be a real economic driver for the state as we look at new ideas to approach river design through the perspectives of tourism, conservation and economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee River Project is a unifying and forward-looking research and visioning effort for the watershed, the people who live within it and those who visit it. Led by Collett and the UT-ORNL Governor\u2019s Chair Phil Enquist of Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill, the project will expand on the work of students in the fall 2016 studio to identify and examine issues that are affecting or might affect the Tennessee River watershed.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from organizations across Tennessee attended the visioning workshop and engaged in discussion about 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century opportunities and challenges for the watershed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City of �����Ƶ<\/li>\n<li>East Tennessee Quality Growth<\/li>\n<li>East Tennessee Tourism Council<\/li>\n<li>Kennerly Montgomery &amp; Finley PC<\/li>\n<li>Legacy Parks Foundation<\/li>\n<li>National Land Realty<\/li>\n<li>Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>River City Company<\/li>\n<li>Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Scenic Rivers<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Valley Authority<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Water Resources Research Center<\/li>\n<li>University of Tennessee College of Architecture + Design<\/li>\n<li>University of Tennessee Department of Biosystems Engineering<\/li>\n<li>University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"10151\" style=\"max-width: 420px\" class=\"alignleft none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10151 \" src=\"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/assets\/Good-PaulBamson-IMG_0201-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"good-paulbamson-img_0201\" width=\"420\" height=\"385\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Inspired by presentations of the students\u2019 fall 2016 research, the group began to define the Tennessee River Project\u2019s goals in research, teaching, convening and public engagement and examine challenges and opportunities related to tourism, riverfront trails, access, water quality, industries, ecologies, clean and renewable energy and more.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium will next form a steering committee and determine the focus of the fall 2017 studio. Soon, the group will begin work to establish an enduring research entity, a resource that will benefit the region and world, and determine the short- and long-range needs of the Tennessee River and the group\u2019s responses to those needs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now much more than a studio, the Tennessee River Project kicked off at the Jan. 9 workshop, where discussion covered topics from economy to ecology, tourism to transportation and conservation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,81,103,24,104,32,21,4,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-collett-b","category-enquist-p","category-faculty-staff","category-governors-chair-2","category-landscape-architecture","category-news","category-school-of-landscape-architecture","category-students","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - 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