Arquitectura sin edificios: Propuesta urbana para León XIII, Costa Rica

De Mauri­cio Arti­nano y Ubaldo Escalante

Durante nues­tra breve estadía en Costa Rica, logramos reunirnos y con­ver­sar con más de 60–65 per­sonas rela­cionadas con el par­que en el bar­rio de León XIII donde esper­amos desar­rol­lar nues­tra prop­uesta de inter­ven­ción urbana.  Entre las per­sonas con las que nos reuni­mos esta­ban la Viceal­caldesa de la Munic­i­pal­i­dad de Tibás, el Coman­dante de la Fuerza Pública de León XIII, el Padre Raschid de la Igle­sia Católica de León XIII, per­sonal de la Munic­i­pal­i­dad de Tibás, per­sonal del Hogar de Adul­tos May­ores de León XIII, per­sonal de la Cruz Roja de León XIII, niños(as), jóvenes, adul­tos may­ores…  De estas con­ver­sa­ciones logramos enten­der de primera mano la real­i­dad de los veci­nos y veci­nas del par­que y con base a estos insumos vamos a desar­rol­lar nues­tra prop­uesta.  La inten­ción nues­tra es además de una prop­uesta tra­ba­jar con todos estos actores, así como con el Pro­fe­sor Maz­zanti, para lograr hac­erla real­i­dad.

Princeton University establishes strategic partnerships to enhance international research and learning

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity has estab­lished a strate­gic part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of São Paulo that will offer fac­ulty and stu­dents at both insti­tu­tions increased access to research and learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties across dis­ci­plines and across borders.

The move comes on the heels of the sign­ing of a sim­i­lar agree­ment with Hum­boldt Uni­ver­sity in Berlin, and Prince­ton also is final­iz­ing an agree­ment with the Uni­ver­sity of Tokyo. The Uni­ver­sity is estab­lish­ing these strate­gic part­ner­ships with peer insti­tu­tions around the world as it con­tin­ues its inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion efforts, out­lined in the 2007 “Prince­ton in the World” report. These strate­gic part­ner­ships are in addi­tion to the many insti­tu­tional rela­tion­ships that Prince­ton already has in place includ­ing fac­ulty fel­low­ships, stu­dent exchanges and study abroad pro­grams.

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Photos from the PLAS lecture “Architecture as a Means of Social Transformation” on November 16, 2012

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Tilghman to travel to Brazil, Chile and Argentina

Build­ing on the University’s efforts to expand its pres­ence in Latin Amer­ica, Uni­ver­sity Pres­i­dent Shirley Tilgh­man and four of her col­leagues in the admin­is­tra­tion will travel to South Amer­ica over fall break to for­mal­ize arrange­ments for a strate­gic part­ner­ship with the Uni­ver­sity of Sao Paulo in Brazil.

In her 2007 “Prince­ton in the World” report, Tilgh­man out­lined the University’s plans to enhance its global pres­ence in the face of a grow­ing trend toward inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion in higher education. In the past few years, Yale and New York Uni­ver­sity have made strides toward inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion by open­ing cam­puses in Sin­ga­pore and Abu Dhabi, respec­tively. While the Uni­ver­sity has not announced any sim­i­lar plans to open a branch cam­pus, it has begun to develop a rela­tion­ship with Brazil specif­i­cally over the past few years. Con­tinue read­ing