Have Concerns about Academic Credit?
We can work with students to document their work, create required assignments and will vouch for their experience.
Faculty and Instructors
Are you looking for a way to give your students a real world challenge while helping people in other countries? We can help you to design a course of study from one week to one semester.
Training: Sustainable Dwelling Practices
World Hands Studio seeks students with an interest in any field of study pertinent to sustainable dwelling to work under the guidance of teachers, graduate students, licensed professionals, architects, experienced designers, builders and trades-people during our training events. We will work with you to document your work with us should you decide to pursue academic credit. Students will be responsible for generating their focus in concert with their academic advisors and WHP staff. Becoming knowledgeable of tradition, social conditions, economics and culture will greatly enhance the ability to create specific studies appropriate to border contexts.
Each project offers a full complement of cultural considerations, strict environmental standards and economic challenges. Hands-on site work will range from different natural and recycled material building systems to green and passive energy technologies to regenerative waste recycling. Students will be required to reach beyond the conventional to create solutions that fall within the strict parameters of developing world conditions.
This will be a challenging, but fun and enlightening time for those at the beginning of their careers and offers those select students the unique chance to confront and analyze real world problems.