{"id":1630,"date":"2014-01-15T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2014-01-15T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T20:44:56","slug":"designing-resilient-schools-mooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"Designing Resilient Schools MOOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back!\u00a0 I needed a month off to recover from finishing up work, the holidays and other related activities.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m back and will be likely sharing with you in a different way.\u00a0 Where before I tended to be global in nature, I made a resolution to keep it micro this year.\u00a0 The economic and political landscapes will just have to get by without me for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s talk about this new course in which I&#8217;ve enrolled:\u00a0 Designing Resilient Schools.\u00a0 MOOC is the acronym for massive online open course, and that is just what this is.\u00a0 Nearly 600 individuals have signed on to work as teams and design a prototype school to be built on a site in the devastated municipality of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ph_locator_eastern_samar_guiuan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1633\" alt=\"Ph_locator_eastern_samar_guiuan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ph_locator_eastern_samar_guiuan-257x300.png\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ph_locator_eastern_samar_guiuan-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ph_locator_eastern_samar_guiuan.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a>Guiuan in the Phillipines.\u00a0 The Guiuan high school was destroyed in the aftermath of the Typhoon.\u00a0 That is likely the first school that will be built from the selected prototype.<\/p>\n<p>The class lasts for six weeks, and as I mentioned, we will form into teams and work together to come up with these designs.\u00a0 So far we are a team of three:\u00a0 Richu Thomas and Rinki Shah, two young architects from Indian have joined with me to be a team.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll recruit a few more along the way, but it&#8217;s a start.\u00a0 Our first assignment is to write about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/11408-23-wlwcp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1636\" alt=\"11408-23-wlwcp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/11408-23-wlwcp-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/11408-23-wlwcp-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/11408-23-wlwcp.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>native architecture of the Phillipines.\u00a0 It&#8217;s due on the 24th, and is required to be in A3 .pdf format, whatever that is.\u00a0 I see I have some peripheral work to do in order to meet the class standard for submittals.\u00a0 In any event, I am confident our team will shine, as we are a motivated group and want to see this thru to fruition &#8211; maybe even to construction!\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be writing more about this in the days to come.\u00a0 In the meantime, here&#8217;s some pictures of the devastation that the area has suffered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Guiuan-high-school-devastation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1637\" alt=\"Guiuan high school devastation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Guiuan-high-school-devastation-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Guiuan-high-school-devastation-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Guiuan-high-school-devastation-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Guiuan-high-school-devastation.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/02-philippines-typhoon-haiyan-2013-11-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1638\" alt=\"02-philippines-typhoon-haiyan-2013-11-15\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/02-philippines-typhoon-haiyan-2013-11-15-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/02-philippines-typhoon-haiyan-2013-11-15-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/02-philippines-typhoon-haiyan-2013-11-15-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/02-philippines-typhoon-haiyan-2013-11-15.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Later!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back!\u00a0 I needed a month off to recover from finishing up work, the holidays and other related activities.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m back and will be likely sharing with you in a different way.\u00a0 Where before I tended to be global &hellip; 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