This week’s workshop is taught by African geopolitics and refugee camps expert Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán, former director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Liberia and Ivory Coast and head of its programs…
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Disasters happen all the time. We can’t always prevent them from happening, but disaster risk reduction efforts can limit the scale of devastation. Launched this Tuesday to coincide with the…
We are so proud to hear that RAPIDO, the disaster recovery housing pilot program led by our former student Elaine Morales with BCworkshop, has been awarded 1st place in the…
We recently caught up with former student David Kostenwein, a graduate of our 2012-13 class, who is now based in Bogotá implementing Inter-American Development Bank’s Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative,…
Last April we ended our series of Development by Design Dialogues with special guest Teddy Cruz, architect known for his extensive research of the Tijuana-San Diego border. In the dialogue,…
This year the Curry Stone Design Prize has been awarded to Rural Urban Frameword (RUF), a Hong Kong–based nonprofit research and design firm that is working to help recover and…
Adding to this year’s course highlights, we’re excited to welcome Allison Koornneef, a graduate of our 2012-13 class, as the new assistant coordinator of our masters program. Allison is from…
We’re excited to announce the start of our masters program this year and welcome our new group of students for the 2015-16 term! The program will kick off once again…
We are proud to announce that our co-director Carmen Mendoza has been invited to speak at the 1st Public Spaces International Congress at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do…
Words cannot express the pain we feel at the loss of our student Nerea this past weekend. Nerea passed away in a motorcycle accident (12-9-2015) in Senegal, where she had…