The Community Design Studio is part of a service-learning curriculum in the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Washington.

Through the studio and community-university partnership, students and faculty in the department work with local communities in the Pacific Northwest and abroad to develop projects that promote community building and sustainability. Recent studio projects include:

Community Building and Placemaking: Eleven Projects for Neighborhood Revitalization in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District

Palmer, Alaska: Landscape Design of Communities

Envisioning Burlington: Community Deisng Studio

Meinung Field Studio, Taiwan

Quanzhou, China: Community Planning and Urban Design

Community Design/build

The department's work is featured in the case study series on community-university partnership published by University of Washington's Office of Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies.