What is the EcoVillage and Why is it on Campus?
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Did you know that the campus of the Sisters of Divine Providence will have some new residents in the spring of 2025? The Rachel Carson EcoVillage is building residential units on a portion of the Sisters’ campus and will be our neighbor. Come join Stefani Danes talk about the EcoVillage and learn more about this exciting endeavor.
Stefani Danes
Stefani Danes is a founding member of Rachel Carson EcoVillage on the Providence Heights campus north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During the development phase, she is also serving as project manager. As an architect, she has designed urban affordable housing, cohousing, and community facilities. She has been active in her own neighborhood community organizations since helping to found them in 1989. She teaches courses on housing, intentional communities, and sustainable neighborhood revitalization in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon. Over the past ten years, she has visited more than forty communities in the US and Denmark, prepared post-occupancy evaluations, and has completed a course in cohousing development. She has been a presenter at national Cohousing Conferences and has taught several OSHER courses on cohousing. Her interest in the role of the built environment on communities has guided her career since she did volunteer work in school. She was in the first class of women graduates at Princeton and went on to get her master's in architecture at Yale.