This documentary learning unit is structured to achieve the following specific objectives:
Method-related: To provide a compelling learning experience that fosters a deep
understanding of the abstract concepts of the Environment, Community, Sustainability, and
Resilience, and how they intertwine.
Content-related: By building a narrative around critical questions – How do environments,
communities, sustainability, and resilience connect? What is social sustainability's
relationship to sustainable development? What defines sustainable and resilient
communities, and what are the roles of individuals and the collective? And finally, how do
sustainability and resilience intersect socio-culturally? – this unit will illuminate for students
the societal and cultural consequences arising from planning and design choices in our
cities and buildings, particularly as these spaces contend with fluid, unforeseen, and
escalating uncertainty.
