Experiential Design, Facilitation & Leadership Capacity Building Journey
This years course focused upon developing capacities as co-designers, facilitators, maverick artist change-leaders and conductors of systemic change. Through rapid prototyping, collaborative leadership practice, equine assisted relational horsemanship, 7-day learning journey across Arizona, strategic sustainability and "Social Lab" style approaches to developing systemic leadership skills students put their learning into practice by co-created a 40 acre collaborative design project prototype for the Windsong Peace & Leadership Center in Patagonia Arizona. This years design project included student directed:
Learning journey sites: Juniper Well Ranch, Arcosanti, Windsong Peace and Leadership Center, Deep Dirt Farm, Wildlife Corridor, Town of Patagonia, Borderlands Restoration Nursery and Seed Lab, Gary Nabhan's/Native Seed Search, Canelo Project, Mexicayotl Academy, The U.S-Mexico Border wall, Nogales Mercado, The Ecosa Institute, and Prescott College.
Special thanks to Pam Mcfee, Zach Burns, Margarat Shaw, Jeff Stein, Tony Brown, Mark Riegner, Erin Blanding, Justin Bramhall, the whole Windsong crew and the Borderlands Restoration Leadership Institute for all your amazing contributions to our learning adventure!
Joshua Cubista
- Researching and developing a sense of place//ecology/culture/economy of the borderlands
- Articulating a vision for the leadership center and the wider borderlands region based upon the learning journey and interviews
- Developing a Permaculture ethic-based Venn diagram and prototype systems dynamics causal loop diagrams
- Co-creating a borderlands overview Permaculture map
- Co-designing Windsong Leadership Center Permaculture design
- Personal reflection
- Creating a shared collaborative design portfolio
Learning journey sites: Juniper Well Ranch, Arcosanti, Windsong Peace and Leadership Center, Deep Dirt Farm, Wildlife Corridor, Town of Patagonia, Borderlands Restoration Nursery and Seed Lab, Gary Nabhan's/Native Seed Search, Canelo Project, Mexicayotl Academy, The U.S-Mexico Border wall, Nogales Mercado, The Ecosa Institute, and Prescott College.
Special thanks to Pam Mcfee, Zach Burns, Margarat Shaw, Jeff Stein, Tony Brown, Mark Riegner, Erin Blanding, Justin Bramhall, the whole Windsong crew and the Borderlands Restoration Leadership Institute for all your amazing contributions to our learning adventure!
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Co-Design Project
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