Sustainable Futures: A community-based interdisciplinary studio: Summer 2007, 2007

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Sustainable Futures: A community-based interdisciplinary studio: Summer 2007

Creator

Monteverde Institute

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Publication Date

January 2007

Abstract

This ten-week course of study is designed to offer university students and interested professionals the opportunity to live and work in a rural, but rapidly developing region in Costa Rica on projects concerned with creating futures that are ecologically and socially just. This is a multi-disciplinary program that uses theory and practice as the learning approach, and introduces issues such as how one organizes to do work and how to engage a diverse and complex community in place-making. The studio projects take place within a community-based learning environment where students learn from residents about local history and conditions and incorporate such knowledge into the planning, design and construction of projects in the Monteverde area. Students work with community members through the local and regional institutions and organizations serving the Monteverde region. In the course of providing technical assistance to the greater Monteverde community, students will learn skills required to gather information from place and residents and to process this information both analytically and expressively in order to develop inspired design.

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Extent

5 pages

Language

English

Media Type

Syllabi

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

M37-00456

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Type

Book

Recommended Citation

Monteverde Institute, "Sustainable Futures: A community-based interdisciplinary studio: Summer 2007, 2007" (2007). Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development. 251.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sustainable_futures/251