An interdisciplinary team of students from Western University spent fall quarter on an island off the coast of Greece, developing alternative solutions to sustainable community redevelopment problems, such as a water purification project and connecting a village to the main city on the island. Students from departments such as industrial design, environmental studies, urban planning, architecture and anthropology participated in the project led by Arunas Oslapas, associate professor of industrial design. This is a perfect example of applying design thinking and methodology to find solutions to large scale complex problems.
"The goal was to have a variety of students who could look at the problem from different perspectives," Oslapas said. "We figured an anthropology student could possibly see something that a student from urban planning could not, and vice versa."
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