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Faculty Dean Abbott Roger Clemence Ann Forsyth Clint Hewitt John Koepke Rebecca Krinke Roger Martin Kristine Miller Laura Musacchio Lance Neckar David Pitt Robert Sykes Adjunct Faculty Joseph R. Favour Robert J. Gunderson Jon Kingstad Richard Murphy, Jr. Patrick Nunnally Peter Olin Sharon Pfeifer Dan Shaw Lecturers Research Fellows  faculty+staff main page | |||
Roger Clemence Roger Clemence, professor emeritus, got an early start on theinterdisciplinary education focus that he describes as "the hallmark ofwhat I've done over the years." He started with a liberal arts educationfrom Amherst, majoring in fine arts with an English minor, then earnedmaster's degrees, first in architecture and then in landscapearchitecture, at the University of Pennsylvania. Among the interdisciplinary endeavors he has engaged in, Clemence was forseven years the director of the Urban Education Center. His aim duringthat period was to bring students together with the practicing architectsand landscape architects of the Community Design Center of Minnesota (alocal service agency) in order to perform community-based planning anddesign. As he explains it, "the 'client', if you will, was typically anorganization that served low-income people or was a grass-roots citizengroup [of low income people]." Through the work of the Urban EducationCenter, low-income people gained access to much needed expertise andresources, and students had the opportunity to engage with practitionersand populations they ordinarily wouldn't have the chance to serve. In 1986, Clemence, with Judith Martin, a colleague from the urban studiesprogram, completed a ten-part series of programs for educationaltelevision titled, The Meanings of Place. Those programs advanced astill ongoing investigation for Clemence of how space becomes "place." Thematerial became both a distance learning course and, for ten years, apopular seminar. The students in that seminar came from severaldisciplines and countries to explore together the commonalities anddifferences in the way they viewed the world and understoodplace. Clemence's goal in this class, as in all his teaching, was to"unhook students from the disciplinary boundaries that can hold themdown. Those types of exploratory experiences are very powerful for ateacher," he comments, "because they can be so validating for thestudents." The original seminar has become an important reference for anew seminar, "Place: Meaning and Making," that Clemence now teaches withRoger Martin. In another aspect of his interdisciplinary teaching, Clemence has been amember of numerous masters and PhD degree committees in over a dozendifferent disciplines. In explaining the reasons for this, Clemence says,"landscape architecture--and architecture--are collaborating disciplinesthat can make their presence felt in many academic areas." Throughout his academic career, Clemence has maintained a landscapearchitecture and planning consultancy. He also has been honored numeroustimes, including receiving the University's Morse Alumni DistinguishedTeaching Award, and awards from the Minnesota chapters of the AmericanSociety of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the American Institute ofArchitects (AIA). In addition, in 1989, Clemence was named a Fellow by theASLA. | |||
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