University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States
Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Peru
Knowledge and Cultural Exchange Through the built Environment: Inti Wasi Sustainable and Affordable Cold Climate Housing
This program will facilitate student travel between the U.S. and Peru while students collaboratively work to plan, design, and implement a solution to the affordable housing shortage within the Andes. Beyond simply providing an opportunity for students to see and experience different places and cultures, it will also engage students in finding solutions to a real-world problem through travel study and service learning. The work of the students, and the affordable and sustainable cold-climate housing problem it seeks to address, has the potential to positively impact the entire Andean highland, and not just the immediate community of Puno.