Building Capacity Together Through Community Based Learning

Peals of laughter, hurried attempts at explanation, second-guesses, broadening smiles. Not what you’d see in most planning and urban studies classrooms, especially in the evening after most students have worked a full day. Participants sit in chairs, back to back, one holding an abstract diagram trying to convey its structure to another student, who attempts to reproduce the shapes while unable to see what is drawn on the paper. An exercise in listening and communication. Not where you’d expect to see it — not on campus, but at the offices of a local community development corporation.