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Center staff, fellows, and affiliates participate in studios and courses in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design: · Professor François Vigier: Strategies for Social Inclusion in Development Seminar (Co-instructor) · Professor Mona Serageldin: Strategic Planning and Local Development, Strategies for Social Inclusion in Development Seminar (Co-instructor) · John Driscoll: Introduction to Urban Planning and Design, Strategic Planning and Local Development · Yves Cabannes : Participatory Design and Planning for Developing Cities with Special Reference to Latin America The Center welcomes the participation of GSD students as research assistants. Students can pursue their academic interests and participate in the Center's projects, research, conferences, and workshops. Both paid (Federal Work-Study and Non-Work-Study) positions and assignments for which academic credit may be obtained are available to GSD students. Center staff, fellows, and affiliates draw on the material gathered through fieldwork, in the preparation of courses and lectures to allow planners and designers interested in working in diverse economic and social settings to develop the sensitivity and skills required to devise strategies meeting the challenge of rapid and profound transformations and to shape culturally adapted responses to the needs of changing societies. The Center has also used fieldwork material for studios which have been prepared in close collaboration with the cities and offer an opportunity for a two-way exchange between city officials and practitioners and Harvard faculty and students. Students in each course or studio are able to draw upon extensive material prepared by the Center, including monographs, base maps, photographic documentation, and audio/visual material. The pedagogic interest of these studios is to allow planners and designers interested in working in diverse economic and social settings to develop the sensitivity and skills required to devise strategies meeting the challenge of rapid and profound transformations and to shape culturally adapted responses to the needs of changing societies. The studios are prepared in close collaboration with the cities involved and offer an opportunity for a two-way exchange between city officials and practitioners and Harvard faculty and students. Students in each studio are able to draw upon extensive material prepared by the Center, including monographs, base maps, photographic documentation, and audio/visual material.
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