ECO VIDAL DESIGN
ECO VIDAL DESIGN
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Architecture + Interiors
Sustainability + Educational Projects
Sustainability + Educational Projects
Sustainable Development Apprentice Program with After School Matters
Location: Edgewater, Chicago, Il.Client: CPS Senn High School
Sponsor: After School Matters
Instruction and engagement: Carmen Vidal-Hallett | Eco Vidal Design, Inc.
Completion Date: 2014
Site area: Senn HS School grounds and Broadway and Glenlake site.
Carmen Vidal-Hallett created a 6-week After School Matters Sustainable Development Apprentice Program for High School Students at Senn High School during the summer of 2014. Students learned about sustainable life practices to mitigate Climate Change and to learn about professions focusing on environmental areas including water and storm water management, energy and green building, recycling and waste management and sustainable urban design as well as environmental reporting.
The course included collaborations with Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Loyola University, City of Chicago Center for Green Technologies and the Pulitzer Center around the world. The diverse community of students also learned how to design transit oriented urban spaces and rain gardens. As a group they built at the end of the program a rain garden. Several students pursued environmental majors at the university level and are now professionals.