Urban Design and Planning: China Village Studio - Sichuan, China
The course is organized as a service-learning studio, in coordination with design, social-scientific and environmental-scientific faculty and students in China and local community and social-entrepreneurial initiatives. Students will practice different methods of cross-cultural engagement, including community asset mapping, participatory rural appraisal (PRA), design "charrettes" and other rapid, inclusive, interdisciplinary and intercultural exercises.