Verde Smoke

I’m the writing TA for this semester’s CityScope class and we’ve just returned from a trip to Peru during spring break. Here’s the blurb on the class from the syllabus:

“CityScope is a combination undergraduate course and Masters in City Planning graduate practicum that focuses on a series of topics, using social and political science, engineering and technical tools, architectural design and other fields and methods. We focused on one city in particular, the coastal town of Tambo de Mora (TdM). Today, TdM is host to a toxic mix of some of the worst problems of a post-disaster urban zone. Suffering from a natural, human, political and social tragedy, the city’s future continues to be haunted by the tremendous earthquake damage of August 2007.

This year, Cityscope is organized toward the production of practical, useful and hopefully transformative products that are most relevant to improving the situation in Peru. To achieve this, we have linked this class to the ongoing development of a long-term relationship with active stakeholders, researchers, academics and others in Peru, including faculty and students from the Universidad del Pacifico.”

I’m working with a group of undergraduate students completing a communications/writing component of the class, who will be creating digital stories about their experience in Peru and people they encountered.

Here’s some photos from the trip last we…I’m hoping to pull together my own short video piece too in the coming weeks.