Ignite your career with Geodesign! The magnitude of challenges before us exceeds the reach of conventional approaches to planning and design. The pandemic has spawned urgent needs for new design approaches and solutions. Also at the doorstep is climate change: altering community design approaches; addressing infrastructure types and locations; as well as the need to protect carbon-sequestering environs. Geodesign provides a revolutionary way forward. It leverages information systems to foster collaborations that result in geographically specific, adaptive, and resilient strategies to wicked problems across scales of the natural and built environment. Geodesign builds confidence through dynamic real-time feedback, which empowers engaged collaborations for meaningful plans. With Geodesign, you can change your world – for the better!
This course includes well-illustrated lectures by the instructor, as well as guest lectures each week to ensure you are hearing a variety of viewpoints. Each week you will also be able to examine what Geodesign is through interactive mapping that showcases real-word Case Study examples of Geodesign from around the globe. As you move along in the course, you will discover the interrelationships of both the physical and human aspects that contribute to how Geodesign strategies are composed. The course concludes with you outlining your own Geodesign Challenge, and receiving feedback about that from your peers
Status: Case Studies
Case Studies
Status: Geographic Information Systems
Geographic Information Systems
Beginner·Course·12 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Jan 23, 2021
Excellent course, very good lectures and incredible map display!
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 27, 2018
This course is so well presented that it seems unlikely that even the most casual student won't learn essential principles of geodesign and be able to apply them to real life situations.
4.0
·Reviewed Apr 4, 2017
Great basic course. I hope it give more detailed answer about cases study
4.0
·Reviewed Apr 11, 2021
The course was nicely presented,brief and self explanatory especially the maim lectures. I really appreciate the course because I learnt newthings I never knew about before.
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 9, 2019
Liked the guest lectures and the examples. Very apt case studies to help understand and learn from every week's main lecture.
4.0
·Reviewed Aug 1, 2020
It broadened my thinking on how we can approach solution in the built environment.
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 27, 2019
Great class, fun and a thorough treatment of geodesign!
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 16, 2021
The course is very well organized and provides a great overview of geodesign.
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Judith
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 28, 2018
This course is so well presented that it seems unlikely that even the most casual student won't learn essential principles of geodesign and be able to apply them to real life situations.
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Asteria
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 11, 2021
This Geodesign Course by PennState University has given me more insights and knowledge on the framework and application of Geodesign onto city planning problems. I am very grateful for the thorough and clear lectures and project examples given. Hopefully more people worldwide will be aspired by this framework in the near future.
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Eliana
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 2, 2017
Very interesting! Is a basic geodesign course but introduce professions in a different and very important way of thinking: shows the importance on plane urban landscapes with more environmental respect.
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Archanaa
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 10, 2019
Liked the guest lectures and the examples. Very apt case studies to help understand and learn from every week's main lecture.
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Miguel
4.0
·Reviewed Aug 3, 2020
A good introduction to geodesign, covering the most important concepts.
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Karen
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 17, 2021
The course is very well organized and provides a great overview of geodesign.
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Jacqueline
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 24, 2021
Excellent course, very good lectures and incredible map display!
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Robert
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 27, 2019
Great class, fun and a thorough treatment of geodesign!
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Roberto
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 7, 2017
Its agreat introduction if you want to get new knoledge
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Mohd
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 24, 2019
Excellent Course to help you grow in your field.
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Ricardo
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 17, 2018
Excelent! A wide view about geodesign...
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Nken
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 19, 2018
Very nice course
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Marcos
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 3, 2017
I love it!
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MOHAMED
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 9, 2020
thanks
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Gisela
4.0
·Reviewed Nov 22, 2023
Really enjoyed how autonomous this course was! Super easy to follow and with short but entertaining lectures. I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject. The only "down" is that some links are broken and do not work properly, but even then it is easy to follow and search for the missing info on our own.
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YAKUBU
4.0
·Reviewed Apr 12, 2021
The course was nicely presented,brief and self explanatory especially the maim lectures. I really appreciate the course because I learnt newthings I never knew about before.
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Yogesh
4.0
·Reviewed Aug 2, 2020
It broadened my thinking on how we can approach solution in the built environment.
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Muhammad
4.0
·Reviewed Apr 4, 2017
Great basic course. I hope it give more detailed answer about cases study
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Shashank
1.0
·Reviewed Jul 10, 2024
I have submitted assignments and paid for the course..But I am forced to beg for peer reviews to get the course certificate that
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Tim
1.0
·Reviewed Oct 18, 2024
Many links in the material no longer work. The course is out of date. It should be removed until it is updated.