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Geodesign: Change Your World

Ignite your career with Geodesign! The magnitude of challenges before us exceeds the reach of conventional approaches to planning and design. The pandemic has spawned urgent needs for new design approaches and solutions. Also at the doorstep is climate change: altering community design approaches; addressing infrastructure types and locations; as well as the need to protect carbon-sequestering environs. Geodesign provides a revolutionary way forward. It leverages information systems to foster collaborations that result in geographically specific, adaptive, and resilient strategies to wicked problems across scales of the natural and built environment. Geodesign builds confidence through dynamic real-time feedback, which empowers engaged collaborations for meaningful plans. With Geodesign, you can change your world – for the better! This course includes well-illustrated lectures by the instructor, as well as guest lectures each week to ensure you are hearing a variety of viewpoints. Each week you will also be able to examine what Geodesign is through interactive mapping that showcases real-word Case Study examples of Geodesign from around the globe. As you move along in the course, you will discover the interrelationships of both the physical and human aspects that contribute to how Geodesign strategies are composed. The course concludes with you outlining your own Geodesign Challenge, and receiving feedback about that from your peers

Status: Systems Thinking
Status: Decision Support Systems
BeginnerCourse12 hours

Featured reviews

KV

5.0Reviewed Apr 16, 2021

The course is very well organized and provides a great overview of geodesign.

YN

4.0Reviewed Apr 11, 2021

The course was nicely presented,brief and self explanatory especially the maim lectures. I really appreciate the course because I learnt newthings I never knew about before.

RK

5.0Reviewed Nov 27, 2019

Great class, fun and a thorough treatment of geodesign!

JV

5.0Reviewed Sep 27, 2018

This course is so well presented that it seems unlikely that even the most casual student won't learn essential principles of geodesign and be able to apply them to real life situations.

JM

5.0Reviewed Jan 23, 2021

Excellent course, very good lectures and incredible map display!

MI

4.0Reviewed Apr 4, 2017

Great basic course. I hope it give more detailed answer about cases study

AP

5.0Reviewed Jun 9, 2019

Liked the guest lectures and the examples. Very apt case studies to help understand and learn from every week's main lecture.

YP

4.0Reviewed Aug 1, 2020

It broadened my thinking on how we can approach solution in the built environment.

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