When three schools and three countries converge in a study
In most years, students from David Gouverneur's Urban Design Studio spent a semester learning about a single place, making connections with students, professors, and local leaders, traveling to the sites. The pandemic meant that travel to the studio was not possible. But instead of retreating, for the fall semester of 2020, Gouverneur leveraged a network of collaborators to expand it.
During the fall semester, students from three different universities: the Weitzman School of Design, the School of Architecture at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, and the Architecture Program at Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela, worked together to study three different sites. in Caracas, Guadalajara, and Bogotá. The three sites are predominantly composed of informal neighborhoods; all on the outskirts of agricultural and environmentally protected areas, but they are very different in terms of topographical conditions, scale, degree of consolidation, and in relation to formal and higher-income areas.
See the full review of the workshop here.