Project-based course for GNAM on Urban Resilience — possible collaboration

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A quick note to share an upcoming opportunity:

Background 

In the last 18 months, Sauder, along with the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM — http://advancedmanagement.net), has been working with the Rockefeller Foundation and 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) network in the area of urban resilience:

  • 100RC and GNAM have collaborated to mount online courses in the area of urban resilience for students in the GNAM network, in which student teams work on resilience challenges posed by the Chief Resilience Officers of cities, e.g., Norfolk, Pittsburgh, Semarang, Juarez, San Juan.
  • In October this year, we mounted a week-long face-to-face intensive resilience hackathon in Quito (alongside Habitat III) and students worked on a series of resilience challenges posed by the Chief Resilience Officer of Quito.
  • In March 2017, Sauder is hosting a similar course — the Global Network Week — a project-based course titled “Building Resilience in the New Urban Agenda: Localization, Integration and Valuation.”  Attached is the overview of the week.

The collaboration opportunity 

The District of West Vancouver and UBC Sustainability program have offered several projects for the student teams to work on during the March 2017 resilience hackathon — projects will be in the areas of economic development, biodiversity, alternative water sources, community resilience against climate change (specifically, climate adaptation at the neighborhood scale), forest wild-fire exposure, and earthquake resilience expertise development.  

The course is capped at 30 students for the GNAM network, but I am keen on exploring if a few of the LFS grad students may find this interesting.  For instance, 8 UBC journalism students are currently enrolled in the current GNAM Urban Resilience online course and are working with MBA students and Forestry & Environmental studies students on projects for cities.  Very exciting to have such diversity in each team. 

As you will see from the flow of the learning experience in the attached document:

  • the 6 weeks leading up to the week in March will see students being exposed, via online classes, to 100RC, the City Resilience Framework, Turbulence and Resilience project planning, and models of community engagement
  • students will be working in virtual teams for that period on better understanding the resilience challenges posed to them, and then finish their work here in Vancouver March 13-17.  So there will be significant work that the student teams will be doing.  Btw, the students for such courses come from several GNAM schools — in the course we are currently doing this fall, we have 42 students from 12 business schools globally, 15 time zones working on resilience challenges for cities.  We anticipate that a similar diverse student group will be working on the projects for the March initiative as well.

Murali

Dr. Murali Chandrashekaran
     Chair of the Americas Region, Partnership in International Management Network
     Senior Associate Dean, Strategic Partnerships and Global Initiatives
     Fred H. Siller Professor of Marketing and Behavioural Science
     Sauder School of Business
     University of British Columbia
     137 – 2053 Main Mall
     Vancouver, B.C.
     Canada V6T 1Z2 

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E: murali@sauder.ubc.ca

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