Our 5 week adventure begins again. This year we are learning about cities and what it take to make a successful, livable, lovable city that will have longevity. Our course started with an excellent overview lecture from Vaughn Davies that gave context and structure to what urban planners have dealt with and things the students should be considering and thinking about.

Following the presentation the students participated in a team building exercise - the marshmallow challenge - the goal being to created the tallest freestanding tower made of raw spaghetti, tape, string, while supporting a large marshmallow on the top. One team achieved success, one stood briefly and then fell, one showed great promise, but never would stand. It is being supported by the coffee cup in the photo.

Finally the teams got down to working. The had to pull out the research they did on the city of London, it's history, looking at what made this city have such successful longevity. At end of day each team had 3 rough directions expand on in the morning.