Southeast Asia Travelling Studio

This subject explores ways to achieve equity in informal settlements through placemaking. Urbanisation and densification are the two most powerful processes that impact the quality of life in cities. While cities offer better opportunities through education, healthcare, employment and transport, poorly planned urbanization reinforces the already present challenges of poverty, informality, affordable housing, climate justice, and inequity. While one billion urban residents lack access to secure basic services, including affordable housing, urban informality continues to challenge current approaches to urban planning, placemaking and development. The Southeast Asia Travelling Studio will provide students with intellectual and creative tools to explore and explain the urban placemaking processes, practices and policies, including land use and transport interaction that give rise to slum formation and the persistence of slums.