摘要：A multi-semester planning studio at the University of Texas at Austin contributed to the design of a master plan for a community in Northern Mexico, which is expected to grow from a village of 600 inhabitants to a sustainable model city of up to 500,000 citizens in the next 30 years. The authors contextualise this project in the existing literature on ‘live’ planning projects and identify six typical trade-off challenges of problem-based, cross-cultural, collaborative and group-based experiential learning projects. These are: pragmatic efficiency versus cross-disciplinary fertilization; explorative play versus boring idleness; fresh minds versus disciplinary allegiance; rejuvenation versus continuity; networking versus entanglement; expertocracy versus vernacular wisdom. The authors assess the pedagogical aspects of this project through these six lenses and in light of empirical data from an online questionnaire of their students.
