During the spring 2010 CityVision semester, thirty one students from Burroughs Education Campus and Stuart-Hobson Middle School explored the waterfront in southeast DC, and designed plans to develop this emerging area. The National Building Museum challenged the students, with the guidance of local architects, urban planners, and the National Capital Planning Commission, to connect the waterfronts back to their local communities, and to consider ways to improve the Anacostia River. On May 21st, the students will explain how their designs improve the city and the river for those who live and work in this area.

Through design basics and extensive fieldwork, CityVision instills in students that they can mold the world around them and enact positive change in their lives and the lives of others through good design. As students explore neighborhoods, brainstorm solutions and accomplish projects together, they learn the importance of teamwork, problem solving and advocacy skills.

For more information, please contact Outreach Programs at cityvision@nbm.org or 202.272.2448.