Fall 2014 LAND110 Introduction to Landscape Architecture, Provost s Course Development Competition

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1 EDUCATION 1997 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Master of Landscape Architecture 1993 Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY Bachelor of Fine Arts in Environmental Design HONORS + AWARDS 2014 TILT Teaching Fellow and Course Development Grant Recipient, redesign of LAND110: Introduction to Landscape Architecture, The Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University, 2013 Best Teacher Award, Colorado State University Alumni Association, award granted to six professors university-wide each year, nominated by students 2012 Finalist, Reimagine Play Competition, City and County of Denver, one of three designs selected in a national competition 2010 Award of Honor for Excellence in Design, Boston Society of Architects / American Institute of Architects New York Chapter Residential Design Awards, Page Road Residence, Lincoln, MA 2004 Design Merit Award, ASLA, Garden on Turtle Creek, Dallas, TX (w/ Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.) 1997 Jacob Weidenman Prize, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, awarded by landscape architecture department for the highest achievement in design 1997 ASLA Certificate of Honor, American Society of Landscape Architects, award for highest academic scholarship and accomplishment in technology and art 1996 Chaumont Garden Design Competition Finalist, selected by faculty for participation in The International Garden Festival at Chaumont, France 1995 Janet Darling Webel Prize, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, awarded by department for highest achievement in design among returning students 1993 Departmental Honors, Parsons The New School for Design, awarded by department for highest design achievement and contribution to department FUNDING AWARDS Fall 2014 LAND110 Introduction to Landscape Architecture, Provost s Course Development Competition winner. ($5,000) Fall 2013 Urban Lab & LENSES Global Challenges Research Team Award. School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University. Co-PI. ($15,000) ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Sep 2010 Colorado State University, Present Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture 1997 Present Visiting Design Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Rhode Island University, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Denver Sep 2006 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Dec 2008 Studio Design Critic, First Year Core Studio, Lecturer, Studies in Landscape Representation I, Department of Landscape Architecture Jan 2007 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA June 2007 Studio Design Critic, Advanced Options Studio: The Promise of Paradise w/ Co-instructor Adriaan Geuze, Urban Design, Architecture and Landscape Architecture Departments June 1997 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Aug 1997 Career Discovery Instructor, Department of Landscape Architecture

2 Sep 1996 Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA June 1997 Teaching Assistant, Department of Landscape Architecture Sep 1992 Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY Jan 1993 Teaching Assistant, Architecture Studio ACADEMIC COMMITTEES AND ACTIVITES 2014 Present The Institutionalization of Equity and Environmental Justice at CSU Global Challenges Research Team Award. Interdisciplinary Working Group team member. School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University Present CAS Student Affairs Committee, Colorado State University, 2013 Present Advisory Board Member for Institute for the Built Environment, Colorado State University, 2013 Present Departmental Advisory Committee 2013 Present College Planning Committee 2013 Department of Art University Review Committee, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 2012 Present UniverCity Connections Urban Design Lab Steering Committee Member, interdisciplinary bridge between the Landscape Architecture Program, the Institute for the Built Environment and planning agencies of the City of Fort Collins 2012 Present Campus Bicycle Advisory Committee, Colorado State University, 2011 Present Departmental Code Committee 2011 Present Landscape Architecture Awards Committee, Chair. As Chair, I have worked closely with the families to craft the establishment of two new landscape architecture scholarship[ awards, Russell L. Butler II and Amy Rose Brobst Presidents Committee on Women and Gender Equity (CWGE), Colorado State University, Committee on Women and Gender Equity Safety Sub-Committee, Colorado State University, 2011 Present Landscape Architecture Preparatory Accreditation Committee 2011 Blue Dot Sustainable Demonstration House, invited participant at an inter-disciplinary design charrette, organized by The Institute for the Built Environment, intended to create a demonstration house and garden to educate students, staff and the public about sustainable residential building practices, Colorado State University, 2010 Present Landscape Architecture Program Admissions Review Committee 2010 Present Landscape Architecture Resident Instruction Committee 2007 Portfolio and Program Review Board, University of Rhode Island; reviewed student portfolios and offered critiques and participated in a review of the university s Landscape Architecture program. ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS 2014 Jane Choi and Scott Carman. Temporal Agents and the Power of Play in the Built Environment, in: Landscape Research Record No. 1. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. (Peer-Reviewed) 2013 Jane Choi and Scott Carman. Temporal Agents and the Power of Play in the Built Environment, in: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Conference Proceedings. (Peer-Reviewed) Present Jane Choi, managing editor. land.mark: The Magazine of the Colorado State University Landscape Architecture Program; Colorado State University, College of Agricultural Sciences Diane Jones, ed. Contributions to Infill Development and Redevelopment Task Group Report; UniverCity Connections, 5 pages.

3 2012 Bradley Goetz, ed. Contributions to Colorado State University Landscape Architecture Program Self-Evaluation Report for program accreditation, pp , PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE July 2003 c2 studio Landscape Architects, Boston, MA Present Founding Principal Design Director and Managing Principal of emerging landscape architecture firm providing landscape, planning, digital media and consultation services to architects, developers, homeowners, and public institutions. Selected projects include: China Vision Project, Hangzhou, China Brookview Houses I + II, Boston, MA Zhoushan China Development, Zhoushan, China Page Road Residence, Lincoln, MA Fuller Museum Courtyard Installation, Brockton, MA Feb 2001 Martha Schwartz Inc., Cambridge, MA Feb 2003 Design Director and Project Manager Design Director and Project Manager for international landscape architecture office Selected projects include: Crawford Museum of Transportation and Industry, Cleveland, OH Blackfriars s Road Urban Improvement Strategy, London, UK Crescent Eastbank Riverside Park, Portland, OR NYC Ferry Terminal, New York, NY Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center at MIT, Cambridge, MA Sep 1997 Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA Jan 2001 Associate and Senior Designer and Project Manager Lead designer and project manager for highly acclaimed landscape architecture office Selected projects include: Winter Garden at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA Marion Square, Charleston, SC Yin Yu Tang House, Museum Garden at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Hancher Auditorium Plaza, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Garden on Turtle Creek, Dallas, TX PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Society of Landscape Architects Boston Society of Landscape Architects Boston Society of Architects Advisory Board member for ArchitectureBoston Magazine Member of Asian American Designers Forum and Co-Chair of Exhibitions Committee Member of Women Principals in Design Friends of Asian Community Development Corporation LECTURES & EXHIBITIONS Nov 2013 Urban Lab Open House, July 2012 Over, Under, Through, invited exhibition and presentation for government officials, the press and the community at the History Colorado Center, Denver, CO

4 Apr-June 2012 Re-Imagine Play at City Park, exhibition at Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building, County Fair at City Park, Denver Central Library, Dustin Redd Playground, Denver Zoo, Cake Crumbs Bakery and Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO Mar 2012 CSU and Cycling Infrastructure, Community Bicycle Advisory Committee, Colorado State University.. Invited lecture. Nov 2010 A Celebration of Pro Bono Design, exhibition at Build Boston, World Trade Center Convention Hall, Boston, MA. June 2010 CDRC Boston 2010 Project Showcase, an exhibition of selected Community Design Resource Center projects featuring Brookview House I & II. Boston Society of Architects and Boston Architectural College, Boston, MA. Feb 2010 Jury member, Rotch Travelling Scholarship, preliminary stage of two-stage competition evaluating entries for a specific architectural intervention posed by the Scholarhip Committee. Nov 2009 The Design Muse: The Inspiration of Inspiring Women, presentation of firms work and panelist, Women in Design Workshop, presented at Build Boston Convention, Boston, MA. May-June 2009 EAST x East Coast, An exhibition of the work of Massachusetts-based Asian/Asian- American Designers. Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects and the MA Asian American Commission as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Exhibited at the Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA. Sep 2008 A Sustainable Landscape in China, invited lecture, New England Landscape Design and History Association, presented at The Landscape Institute, Cambridge, MA. May-June 2008 Re-Imagining City Hall, exhibition at Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela SA. May 2008 A Sustainable Landscape in China, invited lecture, Cornell University Professional Network, presented at Gensler Associates Architects, Boston, MA. May 2008 Re-Imagining City Hall, exhibition at Wentworth Institute of Technology in conjunction with Historic New England, Watson Hall, Boston, MA. Nov 2007 Matereality, exhibition at Women In Design Conference, Build Boston, World Trade Center Convention Hall, Boston, MA. Nov 2007 Re-Imagining City Hall, exhibition at Build Boston, World Trade Center Convention Hall, Boston, MA. Oct 2007 Re-Imagining City Hall, exhibition at Pinkcomma Gallery for Architecture and Design in conjunction with ArchitectureBoston Magazine, Boston, MA. Sep 2007 Designing Hong Kong, selected competition entry to participate in exhibition at Central Pier 8, Hong Kong, China. Apr-Aug 2004 The Perfect Collection, museum courtyard art installation commissioned for exhibit at the opening for the inaugural exhibit of the Fuller Craft Museum: The Perfect Collection, Brockton, MA. PRESS Nov 2013 Aug 2012 Aug 2012 July 2012 July 2012 Urban Lab Uses Mason Corridor Art Installation Project to Garner Feedback, The Coloradoan Online, < Lab-uses-Mason-Corridor-art-installation-project-garner-feedback> Choice for $5 Million City Park Playground Design Postponed, Denver Post Online, < author unknown. City Park Playground Finalists Expand Plans, Life on Capitol Hill, pp. 1, 12, Rory Seeber. Decision Due Wednesday on City Park Playground Design, Denver Post Online, < author unknown. City Park Playground Finalists Chosen, Life on Capitol Hill, pp. 1, 14, Rory Seeber.

5 June 2012 Jury Announces Three Finalists for City Park Reimagine Play Design, Denver Post Online, < Jay Clark. June 2012 City Park Playground Designs on Display June 1-7, Life on Capitol Hill, p. 3, Rory Seeber. May 2012 People Can Weigh In on Playground Design for City Park, Denver Post Online, < Joey Bunch. Mar/Apr 2009 At the Center of the Storm, Preservation Magazine, National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, Washington, DC. May/June 2008 Selections: Modern Ornamental, Design New England Magazine, p. 32, Jane Choi and Scott Carman. Spring 2008 All Decked Out, Boston Magazine, pp , Brigid Sweeney. Nov/Dec 2007 Nine on the Rise, Design New England Magazine, pp , Jill Connors and Molly Jane Quinn, ed. Oct 2007 Defending, Reimagining City Hall, Morning Edition, WBUR 90.9 FM: Boston s NPR News Station, Andrea Shea. Oct 2007 Close Your Eyes and Reimagine City Hall, The Revitalist, < squarespace.com/journal/>, Elizabeth Sappenfield. Oct 2007 Everyday Use: Rethinking Design at the ICA and City Hall at Pinkcomma Gallery, The Phoenix, David Eisen. Sep/Oct 2007 Imagine That! RE-imagining City Hall, ArchitectureBoston Magazine, pp , Elizabeth Padjen FAIA. May 2007 Jane Choi, Landscape Architect: How Does Your Garden Grow?, Boldfacers, < Lisa Pierpont, ed. Sep 2004 Professional Best, Landscape Architecture Magazine, pp Oct 2001 Jane Brown Gillette, A Dallas Garden, Land Forum SERVICE / OUTREACH 2014 Reviewer, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA): reviewed abstract submittals for inclusion as presentations at the 2015 Annual Meeting Cottonwood Plains Elementary School Learning Garden. Designed and led volunteer construction of student and community Learning Garden on school grounds Facilitator, Fort Collins Living Wall Student Design Competition. Organized and managed competition with the City of Fort Collins and LAND368 students. Winning student design to be built in Spring, Featured in video for CSU admissions office. Colorado State University House of Genius. Panelist for round-table review of start-up business ventures from across the country TEDxCSU Salon, presenter and facilitator for Urban Lab breakout group discussion with CSU community. Colorado State University Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase, volunteer juror for interdisciplinary student exhibition, Colorado State University, 2013 SoGES Managing the Planet Panel: Thriving Beyond Sustainability: How cities are taking planning, green building and economic development to the next level Urban Lab Community Open House. First Friday Art Walk event introducing Urban Lab and new initiatives to Fort Collins Community Urban Lab Charrette, co-facilitated visioning workshop for organization and management of UniverCity Urban Lab. The Institute for the Built Environment, Colorado State University Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase, volunteer juror for interdisciplinary student exhibition, Colorado State University,

6 2012 Reviewer, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA): reviewed abstract submittals for inclusion as presentations at the 2013 Annual Meeting Interior Design Department Industry Connections, invited as a professional designer to serve as juror for exhibition of Interior Design student work across thirteen categories of practice, Colorado State University, 2011 Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase, volunteer juror for interdisciplinary student exhibition, Colorado State University, ArchitectureBoston Magazine, Editorial Board Member; proposed themes and articles for issues of the magazine, reviewed article submissions, advocated for point of view of landscape architects 2010 Rotch Travelling Scholarship, jury member for the preliminary stage of a two-stage architectural competition, Boston, MA CURRICULUM VITAE