Course Overview
In a fast globalizing world, exposure to varied cultures is a key component to education. We can expand the classroom, increase the breadth of the free exchange of ideas and provide a different setting for continuing discourse. As designers we need to understand how others live – and to successfully carry out our craft, we are dependent on client and user satisfaction. We must also respond to ecological conditions. We must observe how peoples’ lives are organized, as well as the environmental, social and cultural conditions within which these patterns exist. Observing such relationships in a different culture and a different environment affords us the opportunity to shatter our stereotypes, re-evaluate our perceptions and sharpen our sensitivity to the individual, cultural and environmental richness in any context. Cape Verde is ideal for these explorations.
