Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design
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COGdesign is a non-profit service organization
offering:
- quality
landscape design for community-based groups;
- meaningful
professional experience for student and practicing
landscape designers;
- volunteer
opportunities for those interested in strengthening
communities by creating and improving neighborhood green
spaces.
COGdesign clients include affordable housing, public and private schools,
neighborhood parks, Friends groups, churches, municipal
agencies, historic sites, and community gardens. (see
Map)
COG designers are trained landscape design
professionals and students who work pro bono on these
projects.
COGdesign serves as a facilitator between the
community organizations seeking landscape design
services and the landscape designers looking for
professional development opportunities and
community-based field experience. Projects may be undertaken by individual
designers, as studio projects at the Landscape Institute
of the Arnold Arboretum, by design students as thesis
projects, or as community events. Design services are available to community groups
which satisfy COGdesign’s eligibility requirements (client
FAQs) and at minimal cost to the client.
Our clients, the community organizations, benefit
from the innovative and creative work of COG’s
designers. The designers are engaged with projects that offer them
challenging field experience, portfolio material, and
the satisfaction that comes from improving the community
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NEWS
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Touring
Urban Wilds and Gardens
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And now it's over!
September 2008 -- Tour goers rode the bus for a guided tour of selected COGdesign projects ... 19th century carriage house.
Photos coming soon.
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WANTED: 25
Gardeners
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COGdesign's new Pool Garden, located in a former swimming pool in
Waltham, will soon be a nursery garden for hardy plants and a
resource for community projects.
25 volunteer gardeners needed to WEED DIG MULCH !
>> Learn more
(PDF)
>> Meet the Gardeners
>> Sign up now! info@cogdesign.org
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ABC Garden
Party
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June 2008 – As a special thank you for their generous support, members of COGdesign’s Augusta Bailey Circle were invited to a private tour of Board President Roger Jeanty’s inspired gardens featuring a moss garden, a Japanese maple collection, and a unique mandala garden.
Photos by Kathy Tarantola. >> Pictures
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Spring
Cleaning at Jenks House Garden
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May 2008 -- Under the direction of landscape designer
Sally Muspratt, COGdesign Planting Brigade volunteers
planted and mulched to refresh the gardens at
Jenks House, a permanent residence owned and managed
by Pine Street Inn in Brookline. The Jenks House
terrace garden will be featured on COGdesign's Urban
Wilds & Gardens bus tour in September.
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In the
Garden ... On-Line Auction
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Grateful thanks to all those who
participated in the COGdesign Online Auction, and congratulations to all auction
winners!
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In Their Own
Words: Designers' Notes
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The mysterious Upton cave. |
Dog park site in Dorchester. |
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January 2008 - Community projects work for
students.
>> Upton
Cave Park, Upton, MA (PDF)
>> RoDogRun,
Dorchester, MA (PDF)
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Waverley
Place Greenhouse
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November
2007 -- COGdesign Advisory Board member Chuck
Sherzi, Jr. demonstrates pruning techniques to
Landscape Institute students during in situ
class at the Waverley Place Greenhouse in Waltham.
>> View
the Project Description (PDF)
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Project
Showcase 2007
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Grassroots & Public
Solutions:
Nira Rock & North Point Park
November 2, 2007
at the Landscape Institute
Cambridge, MA
>> info
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Please see EVENTS &
NEWS for more special project events!
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