Submitted by Stephen Dunne on March 7, 2024 - 11:50am
Autumn study abroad, which is open to all students, has extended the application deadline to March 15.
Croatia: Designing for the Deaf/Reclaiming Space for TeenagersFALL 2024
The Landscape Architecture Croatia: Designing for the Deaf/Reclaiming Space for TeenagersStudy Abroad application has been extended to March 15th . If you have any questions or would like access to a recorded information session, please contact Prof Daniel Winterbottom atnina@uw.edu
Credits for Urban Ecological Design Minor OR Bachelor's of Landscape Architecture - please see our website for more information
The program will take place in two locations. The first is for the first 5 weeks in Rijeka in the north of Croatia where we will restore a garden created in 2019 for 1 week, develop a master plan/site design for an association for people who are deaf/losing their hearing for 1 week and implement the project for 3 weeks. The second project, located in Sibenik, Croatia, and is located south of Rijeka just north of Split where we will develop landscape designs for a historic fort that has been renovated and where we will stay and create a small pop-up intervention near in or near the fortification and plant trees within the fort. These projects will address the loss of connection and use by the local youth who had used these sites prior to the renovation and social hangout spaces and now feel excluded from them since the changed have been implemented. Both unique environments will be the setting through which students will learn the principles of therapeutic garden design, learn about the history of preservation and exclusion in Croatia and experience the unique culture of these different and fascinating regions of Croatia re-known for its history, food, alternative culture and architecture and cultivated and natural landscapes.