• LINKS
  • BELAB WEBSITE
  • SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
  • CENTER OF BUILT ENVIRONMENTS, UW
• CONTENTS
  • BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
  • BE LAB SEQUENCE AND TIMELINE
  • PREPARATORY SEMINAR AND CHARETTE
  • SUMMER FIELD STUDIO
    • Study Tour in Sichuan and Yunnan
    • Survey and Design Work in Taoping
  • UW TAOPING DESIGN STUDIO
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • PARTICIPANTS
  • NOTES

County, Washington; the Seattle Sustainable Development Training Institute (http://courses.washington.edu/uschina/); and the Seattle planning, design and sustainable development firms CollinsWoerman, Mithun, and JC Mueller LLC, among others. The workshop brought SU faculty, WuHe staff, and other experts from China to visit UW for an intensive exchange and charrette with BE Lab students and Seattle-area professionals on sustainable development planning and design in areas recovering from natural disaster.

Students prepared case materials for charrette teams working on hazard-resilient planning for Taoping and the historic flood-prone Cascade Mountain community of Snoqualmie, Washington. They also participated in the charrette, using role-playing and other interactive ways to communicate planning ideas with the Chinese participants, and to model possible ways of planning with community members in Taoping. Students tested technical approaches to sustainable and resilient development planning as well as cross-cultural and cross-lingual teamwork in advance of their actual field work in China. (See Appendices A, B and C for the Taoping teams’ charrette products)