Registration priority to Design Program students. This interdisciplinary course explores urban sustainability through creative practice, set within the living environment of Florence. After introducing the design thinking process as a way to build empathy and understand diverse needs, the class will examine a wide variety of approaches to address problem-solving, critical thinking, and representation within sustainable urbanism. Students will engage with concepts through a series of hands-on projects across a range of urban spaces and scales, developing both thematic knowledge of sustainable urbanism and core skills in creative narrative-making, encouraging students to explore different approaches, concepts, and practices relating to sustainability in urban contexts.
Cross-listed with CRS300.3.
This course has an associated course fee. See the Course Fees webpage for more information.
Department: Geography
Location: Florence
Semester: Spring
Credits: 3