Ole Sleipness
Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning (LAEP)
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Hours: By appointmentOffice Location: FAV 260
Phone: 435-797-0510
Email: ole.sleipness@usu.edu
Educational Background
Licensures & Certifications
Teaching Interests
My teaching encompasses a variety of landscape architecture practice- from large-scale recreation and open space planning, gateway communities, and the interface between public and private lands- to detail oriented core competencies such as landscape materials. Expriential learning forms the core of my studios, lecture courses, and independent student mentoring.
Research Interests
My research interests are focused on branding of the built environment, particularly within gateway communities and natural amenity-based development; rural community development and change; the interface between rural public and private lands; and how students engage these contexts through participatory design and service-learning.
Awards
Achievement Award, 2016
Utah Chapter of the American Planning Association
Faculty Excellence in Civic Engagement, 2011
WSU Center for Civic Engagement
Publications | Abstracts
- Sleipness, O., Unbranded or Branded: Identity of Place as Reflected in the Built Environments of Western Gateway Communities. Association of Collegiate Schools in Planning
- Sleipness, O., Waite, P., Evans, D.T, (2017). Models for Design-Build in Landscape Architecture Curricula: Logistics, Liabilities, and Paradox. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
- Oliver, M., Licon, C., Sleipness, O., Sustainable Development Possibilities in the Intermountain West: A County Level Assessment.. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
- Hughes, A., George, B., Sleipness, O., Ramineni, S., (2016). Hidden History: Using digital tools to discover the historical landscape around us. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference 2016
- Sleipness, O.R, George, B., (2015). Beyond the Sagebrush Rebellion: Envisioning the Role of Landscape Architects in Alternative Futures of Land Ownership in the Intermountain West. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
- Sleipness, O., (2014). Alternative Views of Landscape Change and Human Intervention: Implications of Cross-disciplinary Narratives on Design Pedagogy. CELA 2014: Layers: Landscape, City, & Community
- Sleipness, O., Ryan, K.A, Krikac, R., (2014). Interdisciplinary Design and Service-Learning: Strategies for Successful Program Implementation. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
- Sleipness, O., Waite, P., (2014). Models for Integration of Design-Build into Landscape Architecture Curricula. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2013
- Sleipness, O., Ryan, K.A, McCoy, J., (2014). Prioritizing Challenges Facing Small Rural Communities in the Pacific Northwest: Role of Participatory Design. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2012: Finding Center: Landscape & Values
- Sleipness, O., Evaluating the Intersection of Interdisciplinary Design Education and Service Learning Activities. Architecture Research Centers Consortium
- Ryan, K.A, Sleipness, O., (2012). Enhancing University Students’ Sense of Ownership through a Cross-Disciplinary Community Participation Workshop.: EDRA 43. Environmental Design Research Association
- Sleipness, O., (2011). Consuming Nature: Paradoxes of 'Green' Development in the Rural Southern Appalachian Mountains. CELA 2011: Urban Nature
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
- Sleipness, O., Powell, J., Curtis, K., (2022). Public-Private Partnerships: A Framework for National Park Gateway Community Development: Transformations in Protected Area Management and Gateway Communities: Alternative Approaches to Tourism and Community Engagement. CAB International
- Sleipness, O., (2015). Sustainable Urban Site Design: Grounded in Context: Sustainable Urban Forms: Theory, Design and Application. Cognella Publishing/University Readers *
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Chen, S., Wu, Z., Sleipness, O., Wang, H., (2022). Benefits and Conflicts: A. Systematic Review of Dog Park Design and Management Strategies. Animals, 12:17, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12172251
- Park, H., Licon, C., Sleipness, O., (2022). Teaching Sustainability in Planning and Design Education: A systematic Review of Pedagogical Approaches. Sustainability, 14:15, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14159485
- Chen, S., Sleipness, O., Xu, Y., Park, K., Christensen, K., (2020). A systematic review of alternative protocols for evaluating non-spatial dimensions of urban parks. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 53, 126718.
- Lavoie, C., Sleipness, O., (2020). Fluid meaning, fluid memory: Collective memory and the Mormon canal system of Cache Valley, Utah. Landscape Journal, 37:2, 79-99. doi: doi: 10.3368/lj.37.2.79
- Christensen, K., Michael, S.E, Sleipness, O., (2019). Revisiting Scholarly Productivity Among Recently Tenured Landscape Architecture Faculty. Landscape Research Record, 8, 15-24.
- Chen, S., Sleipness, O., Christensen, K., Feldon, D., Xu, Y., (2019). Environmental Justice and Park Quality in an Intermountain West Gateway Community: Assessing the Spatial Autocorrelation. Landscape Ecology, 34:10, 2323-2335. doi: 10.1007/s10980-019-00891-y
- Sleipness, O., Powell, J., Anderson, D.T, Evans, D.T, McCann, R., Chen, S., (2019). Extension-based community engagement project contributions to landscape architecture core competencies and professional values. North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Journal, 63:2, 37-45.
- Sleipness, O., Christensen, K., Chen, S., (2018). Research Methods within the MLA: Implications for Scholarly Inquiry in Landscape Architecture. Landscape Research Record, 7:1, 42-47.
- Sleipness, O., George, B., (2017). Impacts of Immersive Virtual Reality on Three-Dimensional Design Processes: Opportunities and Constraints for Landscape Architecture Studio Pedagogy. Landscape Research Record, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 6
- George, B., Sleipness, O., Quebbeman, A., (2017). Using virtual reality as a design input: Impacts on collaboration in a university design studio setting. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 2, 252-259.
- Sleipness, O., Ryan, K., Krikac, R., Gomez, S., (2016). Rural Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Projects: Frameworks for Engagement within Regional Rural Development Centers. Landscape Research Record/CELA, 5:1
- Sleipness, O., George, B., Hughes, A., Remineni, S., (2016). Hidden dimensions: Illuminating landscape history through mobile apps. . Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 1, 273-280.
- Sleipness, O.R, (2014). Consuming Nature: Paradoxes of Green Development in the Rural Southern Appalachian Mountains. Landscape Journal, 33:1, 37-58. doi: 10.3368/lj.33.1.37
Professional Journal
- Sleipness, O., Anderson, D.T, Evans, D.T, Design Engagement as a Catalyst for Promoting Democratic Dialogue around Shared Values: Applications for Western Gateway Communities. . International Making Cities Livable
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Technical Reports
Other Reports
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Magazine/Trade Publications
Other
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Teaching
Creative Works | Other
- Draper Open Space Master Plan: Continuing the Corner Canyon Legacy, LAEP - Peer review of built or created works, - 2016
- Draper Open Space Master Plan: Continuing the Corner Canyon Legacy, LAEP - Peer review of built or created works, - 2016
- Draper Open Space Master Plan: Continuing the Corner Canyon Legacy, LAEP - Peer review of built or created works, - 2016