This Thursday January 8th, we welcome back former student Nerea Amoros for an open lecture on Participatory Building and Community Empowerment in Rwanda, where she has been working since graduating…
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As part of the Housing and Land Management team of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), former student Noel Sampson is organizing a workshop titled Building resilient communities…
“An abandoned Torre Baro, is also [part of] Barcelona. More investment, less deception.” This week our students are taking part in a hands-on, real-world workshop in Torre Baro with the…
Listen to Camillo Boano talk about his recent workshop with our students, in which he emphasized the importance of understanding critical theory in transforming and improving the development practice. Throughout…
Professor Nabeel Hamdi has joined us again this year for another workshop with our students to talk about participative design and placemaking within the practice of development. We wanted to…
This Friday November 28th, we welcome back former student Rossana Poblet for an open lecture on Lima’s ecological infrastructure strategy, which she has been researching and working on since graduating…
Our proposal for an alternative intervention in the urban periphery of Medellín developed in partnership with Universidad Nacional de Colombia in last year’s Medellín workshop has been awarded first prize…
On Friday, 14th of November at 10am we welcome scholar and urban development expert Mona Khechen for an open lecture titled Urban Heritage between Revival and Destruction: Beirut. Aleppo. Kabul….
It’s been nearly a year since we interviewed former student Elaine Morales, who had recently started working with the design non-profit bcWorkshop in Texas after graduating from our masters back…
This Thursday Oct. 31st, UN-Habitat and Guardian Cities will inaugurate the first World Cities Day in celebration of sustainable urban development. The event, hosted by Shanghai Municipality in the PRC…