Mentoring in Richmond, Ca

Sooooo I'm a mentor in Richmond, and it's been very interesting, to say the least. We've been teaching high school students about city planning and how to analyze sites. We have used various pedagogical tools to get these ideas across, and we're very please with the way things have worked out!

They will be presenting this Thursday in Richmond at the MLK Community center, so as usual, my Thursdays will be completely booked. But, it's for a good cause! So, rock on Richmond!

Anyway, we will be doing a "helping-hand-activity" which I came up with... so I got to use photoshop today after quite some time and it felt lovely.


The program I'm working through is called Y-PLAN, and its been in conjunction with a class I've been taking here at UC Berkeley: City Planning 190b-290b. That's right baby, graduate seminar. And though it takes up more time than any other 3 unit I've taken aside from ED 4/1 (first "studio" at UC Berkeley for architecture majors) I've loved it and would definitely recommend that anyone who is interested in bettering their surrounding community through the community itself should take this class.

Care for more info? Post a comment on the blog and ill get back to you asap.