ARCH 572
This interdisciplinary course, cross-listed across multiple disciplines, will be co-taught by faculty from architecture, art & design, and recreation, sport & tourism. Each course number entails different expectations and focuses within the broader theme of place-making and rural tourism in China. Through collaborative research, planning, and design processes, students will develop coordinated architectural planning and designs, tourism development strategies, way finding plans, and place-making activities tailor to the specific needs of residents and visitors of Xihu Village in the city of Jingdezhen, China. Participating students will have the option to attend a week-long field trip to China, with limited scholarships available from various sources. Grounded in community-engaged, human-centered design research processes, this hybrid studio-seminar course offers diverse, underrepresented, and global perspectives on community-engaged design processes in the global south to students at home and abroad.