Courses

Focus is on the prospects for urban sustainability, including social, economic and environmental dimensions. Course examines the main problems facing urban areas, how they are assessed, and the policies and programs that try to address them through a team-based service learning project. Topics depend on projects but potentially include sustainability indicators, ecological footprint, air and water quality, climate change, and sustainable energy and transportation policies.

The feature of storytelling facilitates iterative project work in an evolving collaborative development and experience in the class designed to use a variety of narratives-verbal, non-verbal, cinema, and sound- to consider what people do in cars. Personal action and affect is examined through a parallel of real, non-fiction, fiction, fantasy and other narrative depictions of car behavior to in-class experiments and design challenges, with implications for car design and user interface. Stories attached to an idea or a discovery, are considered through movies, design challenges, short... Read More