GulfSouth Studio
The GulfSouth Studio engages faculty, students, and partners to approach the challenges facing Florida Gulf Coast communities through interdisciplinary teaching, data-driven research, cutting-edge technology, and collaborative partnerships.
Tackling Complex Challenges
Environmental, social, and infrastructural challenges require new analysis processes, design approaches, policy strategies, community engagement methods, and technologies. To develop these new approaches, we must focus on ways to come together across different disciplines – each with our unique perspectives, methods, and tools. Thus, the GulfSouth Studio is an interdisciplinary design studio, a digital platform to envision and share design ideas, and a program linking faculty and students with common teaching/research interests around creating a more resilient future for the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Providing the platform for students to explore and solve complex issues across Florida’s Gulf communities
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
GulfSouth bridges the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, journalism, and sustainability to investigate challenges from many perspectives.
Harnessing Technology
Students work with emerging technologies (the internet of things, point clouds, artificial intelligence, game engines, and digital twins) as tools to design and articulate products.
Impactful Products
Coursework collaborates with community partners to produce impactful and implementable designs, models, and policies.
Where We Work
Our projects span a variety of communities, scales, and geographic locations.
