You may remember our former student, Shareen Elnaschie, from her article on building disaster-resilient communities in flood-prone areas and her recent competition for creative activism. Today at EJOLT (Environmental Justice,…
The villas of Buenos Aires, also referred to as villas miserias, are informal settlements found in Argentina, mostly around the largest urban settlements. The term was adopted from Bernardo Verbitsky‘s…
Just recently, our guest professor Sergio Palleroni gave us the head’s up on this new publication titled The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World, a compilation of articles from…
How can we engage communities? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How does the researcher journey…
Yesterday on our Facebook page we shared this candid shot of our students in a physical exercise where 10 students had to “cooperate” and lower a paper tube to the…
Class of 2012 graduates Sonam Lama and Ella Chau have released their trailer for a documentary that brings to light a controversial road development that is threatening the preservation of…
Yesterday and today, professor Isabelle Anguelovsky led a short workshop with our students on the theoretical underpinnings of urban development, sustainability planning, and environmental inequalities, and on achieving urban environmental…
Last Friday, the Curry Stone Foundation named three winners of its 2013 Curry Stone Design Prize: Studio TAMassociati/Emergency of Venice and Milan for their health care facilities in war-torn areas;…
Through this series of short interviews with former students of our masters course, we aim to trace their career paths since graduating and offer a glimpse of their current experiences…
Last week students had the opportunity to learn from one of the development field’s pioneers of participatory planning, Nabeel Hamdi. This week we welcomed another heavyweight from the field, who,…
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