A poem by Rural Studies PhD Candidate Ashleigh Weeden has been published in the 2021 edition of ‘you are here [1],’ a peer-reviewed journal of creative geographies. Ashleigh’s piece, titled expansion (rural routes to womanhood) [2], is part of a collection of creative works focused on bodies and politics by contributors from across the globe and Was selected via double-blind peer review from a pool of more than 100 submissions.
The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) brings together major academic fields concerned with creating strong communities, in Canada and around the world. The four highly respected programs in SEDRD share many common goals but approach them in different and complementary ways. This model reflects the imperatives in building authentic communities where planners, landscape architects, communicators, and citizens all play important interdependent roles in community strength.