EDUCATOR
Copenhagen, Denmark
Site Engagement: SDGs, People & Place
EDUCATOR
Copenhagen, Denmark
Site Engagement: SDGs, People & Place
Project Team
David A. Garcia
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A critical site-specific approach grounded in the SDGs, students engage in month-long fieldwork in pressured regions. Collaborating with local communities, they test designs informed by context, gaining methodological, empathetic, and applicable architectural competencies.
Overview
The programme offers methods of understanding architecture as a dialogue with the world around us, aiming for positive impact through collaborative design.
With scientific fields of knowledge as an active part of design, it allows to be critical of innovation. There is a strong focus on site-specific design, through fieldwork, to environments which are out of balance. This methodology allows for on-site design development in collaboration with local culture, the scientific and technological community and the world of practice and manufacture. In this programme students acquire, a site-specific design methodology that generates architecture informed by local collaboration, becoming empathetic and respectful approaches a territory, and the human and non-human inhabitants.
Institution
The Royal Danish Academy
Master Program: Architecture and Extreme Environments
Community Organization
Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan — Merida, Mexico
Community Engagement
This design and pedagogic methodology is founded on collaboration during the month-long fieldwork which students undertake in the first semester. This collaboration with is the beginning of the yearlong exchange which informs the architectural project with relevance.
Partners
During the 2025 course our partners were the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico
