Sustainable Systems class visit to an urban roof garden
The Sustainable Systems course for first-year students provides a foundational understanding of the scientific and social issues related to the design of resilient urban futures. Students take field trips and lectures to locations that introduce and frame discussions and context-based learning related to sustainability, ecology, and systems. Those trips are combined with studio-based labs, where field work and applied scientific methods are applied, so that students translate these sets of experiences into informed creative works within the areas of art, design, and strategic design, thereby building a creative agency that supports diversity, adaptability and resilience in the face of ever-changing conditions.
As part of their research on energy in the food system, students in Kathryn Frost’s Sustainable Systems class visited a new urban roof garden in Paris, La Communauté Facteur Graine. While sampling delicious cherry tomatoes and edible flowers, they witnessed how a local, sustainable food system can enrich a community.
