Building Learning Communities
This project was part of the University Transdisciplinary Lab - Civic Innovation: Strategies and Practices for Transformative Change, a collaborative lab by Parsons School of Design and The New School for Public Engagement, in 2015.
In collaboration with Ricardo Dutra and Tamar Roemer, in partnership with Edgar Cahn, Founder of TimeBanks USA we developed a speculative design process, in which we explored how a school of the 21st century would work if it was based on learning communities and empathy. We imagined a learning environment in which students, faculty and staff have tools to express their feelings and interests, which included designed spaces for the discovery of connections and common interests among the members of the community.