“All the biggest problems that we face now (…) like global climate change or the pandemic, require collaborative efforts, not just the multiplication of the same sort of person a million times over.” - Peter Galison
Cities are not only where most...
“All the biggest problems that we face now (…) like global climate change or the pandemic, require collaborative efforts, not just the multiplication of the same sort of person a million times over.” - Peter Galison, founder of The Black Hole...
“All the biggest problems that we face now (…) like global climate change or the pandemic, require collaborative efforts, not just the multiplication of the same sort of person a million times over.” - Peter Galison, founder of The Black Hole...
In this course, students will be asked to identify the most pressing sustainability issues in Tokyo. Working in small teams, they will design a new housing community that can offer solutions to the issues they have identified at the local level...
Be a force for good by participating in our Global Pillars course, “Designing the Sustainable City,” inspired by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on sustainable living, this course connects a cohort of students and...
The world is in search of sustainable cities - models of urbanism that can house, educate, and employ a growing share of the world's people, and meet their needs for breathable air, drinkable water, healthy food, as well as safety, community, and...
Today, around 56% of the world's population - 4.4 billion people - live in cities. This trend is expected to continue and the urban population is expected to more than double its current size by 2050, by which time around 70% of the population will...
The main objective of this course is to understand, from a human rights perspective, the main challenges to guarantee the right to migrate and the right to asylum within growing anti-immigrants social and political contexts. From a critical...
IES Abroad's Global Pillars - Sustainable Living, Equitable Living, and Human Well-Being - Integrate most of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). The Global Pillars Courses utilize these pillars as a reference framework to adopt a problem...
“Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future” – Ban Ki-moon1.
There is a common, erroneous perception that international migration is threatening due to the sheer number of immigrants as well as the...