Course: Resilient Communities credits: 5

Course code
BVVH17URRESI
Name
Resilient Communities
Study year
2025-2026
ECTS credits
5
Language
English
Coordinator
D.A.A. Krol
Modes of delivery
  • Assignment
  • Guest lecture
  • Lecture
  • Peer feedback
  • Teaching method 1
Assessments
  • Resilient Communities - Assignment

Learning outcomes

RC.1: The student is able to recognise and distinguish between the different social and / or economic issues within a neighbourhood. (Comp 1)
RC.2: The student is able to carry out research specific to the topic and retrieve information regarding the issues in the neighbourhood related to context solutions and feasibility. (Comp 3)
RC.3: The student is able to involve other processes, developments, values and / or ideas and assess their usage or application. (Comp 9)
RC.4: The student is able to reflect on his or her own performance according to self-formulated criteria and is able to outline and revise his or her functioning to achieve improvements. (Comp 9)
RC.5: The student is able to involve users/residents to work in co-creation on bottom-up addressed issues and to give meaning to the given input. (comp. 8)

Content

This course is about social issues and processes in a neighbourhood in relation to regional, national and/or global trends. Students will experience and observe different values and different attitudes of the inhabitants in a neighbourhood, furthermore they will become acquainted with social dynamics and processes in this area. Obviously the influence of the spatial area on these social issues are part of this course, since the spatial area can stimulate the usage and increase the value for a neighbourhood from the social perspective.
 
Through (guest) lectures, research and self-initiated forms of education the students will learn about these subjects. 
The main objective of this course is that the student increases his or her perception and awareness of social issues in relation to its context as well as broadening his or her mind set regarding these issues.
 

School(s)

  • Institute of Future Environments