A guide for Interdisciplinary Service Learning

Towards Cycling Inclusive Cities: Planning, Participation and Design; Sustainable Transportation Planning, Citizenship and City.

Careers: Transportation Engineering.

Teaching team: Lake Sagaris.

Course level: Both courses from 7th semester or postgraduate.

ODS addressed in the experience: 5, 7, 10, 11,16 and 17.

Brief description of the experience:

Both courses work with participatory pedagogy where they apply participative research techniques for action and maintain general collaboration with Dr. Sagaris’ Laboratory for Social Change. The course has a component of classroom work and in parallel a group work Lab Vivo where they have to respond to the needs of a community actor, and carry out a work where they apply the principles and methods of the courses. The procedures of these courses are based on different disciplines both for the theoretical and practical contents as well as for the methods.

Institutions/community partners involved: Municipality of Renca, CEDEUS, Movimiento contra el Exceso de velocidad, Indepecleta, UC Sustainability Office, Junta de Vecinas 13 Mario Baeza Barrio Bellavista and Laboratorio de Cambio Social Social challenge met: Moving towards more sustainable living systems, and in this sense, mobility and neighborhood organization offer us many very concrete tools.

Service or product co-built with the community: Proposal of communal regulatory plans, Design plans for Bikeways, UC Bicycle Program Pilot, Proposals for the development and changes to the Public Transportation System, Proposals for the improvement of public spaces.

This is both a research and pedagogical strategy that aims to address a complex world, a complex open system that is the city or coexistence in the territory, the complexities range from the social, inequalities, segregation, but also the environmental issue, then also the technological issue, the buses, the applications, that itself is a complex issue. Thus, for complex issues it is necessary to have simple methods, as simple as possible.

Learning results achieved: Working in groups, critical thinking and creativity to solve problems.