ARC399Y1 S
Instructor: Jeannie Kim
Meeting Section: L9101
Online Synchronous
Summer 2022

Overview

As part of a multi-year initiative, Daniels will begin this summer in a global virtual collaboration with students from the Department of Architecture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) based in Kumasi, Ghana. We will be conducting research on several urban and rural community sites throughout Ghana and Canada. In the summers to follow, students from Daniels will travel to Ghana to work directly on these sites and students from KNUST will travel to Canada to do the same. Working in small, focused groups, we will exchange local knowledge and collaborate on innovative and sustainable strategies to transform communities and cities. We will begin by examining the hard and soft systems in which these sites are embedded to collectively explore the potential for a programmatic intervention that operates at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Through these investigations we hope to incite reactions to the following questions:

• How do networks of technology, resources, energy, transportation, culture, etc., operate in each of these contexts?
• How might architecture become part of a process of change at the scale of a community but also the scale of a system?
• What is the agency of the designer? Who are we designing for?

This course will be held online synchronously during the July – August Summer 2022 session, though students will have the option of attending in-person. Additionally, students will have the option of participating in the exchange portion of the course next summer in Ghana.

Application

In order to apply, students are required to submit a paragraph describing your interest in the 'What is the good city?' course, 5 work samples (student work), and a short CV. This course is available to students in year 2 or higher. Applications are to be submitted here.

Information sessions for this course will be held on:

• Wednesday, March 23, 2022 from 11:00am – 12:00pm in DA200
• Friday, March 25, 2022 from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in DA315

The deadline to apply is Monday, March 28, 2022 at 11:59pm EST.