Last month’s practical workshops had our students getting their hands dirty to learn superadobe and rammed earth construction techniques. The two-week workshop period was led by our co-director Sandra Bestraten…
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,…
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…
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,…
For the last day of professor Nabeel Hamdi’s workshop on the development practice, our students were asked to present action planning diagrams that could serve as illustrated explanations of the…
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…
Contemporary architecture in Africa is gaining ground as new and innovative approaches are adopted by both local and foreign architects who build socially committed buildings, such as schools, marketplaces, hospitals…