Week 03: Shelter / Design From Patterns to Details
Campers will be challenged to uncover issues surrounding their homes and neighborhoods in the spheres of residential development and learn about current issues affecting housing affordability and development today.
Your child will...
Learn about housing demands, residential planning, housing development policy, community planning
Ideate solution to some of these challenges and craft a pitch
Learn what is needed to get projects off the ground and present their implementation plan
At BAM Virtual Camps, we aim to encourage kids to explore the challenges present and future of housing in their community and how they can turn those challenges into opportunities. We are aware of the limitations of learning through technology as opposed to the classroom. That’s why we get kids growing gardens because they can then observe directly how systems really work and the BAM coaches help them connect the dots. Our challenges are designed to balance the online learning environment with getting your kid’s hands dirty!
We do this through individual and group challenges that encourage them to ask deeper questions and get closer to objective truth. Be it through judging online resources, speaking directly with community members and subject matter experts, or observing their backyard or neighborhood through a global lens. Armed with this new knowledge, we further challenge kids to develop innovative solutions to these “wicked problems” and how they can affect change in their community by deploying their solutions at a local level. We provide the activities and guidance to inspire them to develop and explore scalable initiatives and solutions.
More than 1 in 6 American households spend 50% or more of their income on housing and unfortunately, too few modestly priced starter homes are being built. The current trends in both where and what new housing is built with are proving ineffective in both the short and long term. We need to start constructing policies that solve the demands on housing supply.
Topics Covered: Residential Planning, Housing Development Policy, Community Planning