The
AIE Eight-Week Program:
Third-grade
teacher Mary Ann Kesilman decided to have her students use their AIE
Program to create designs for a vacant lot near their McClure School
building in North Philadelphia.
AIE
assigned volunteer Karla D. Hoffman, a landscape architect from Olin
Partnership, and Bryn Mawr "Cities" major students Claire
Whitman and Kristin Schade to the classroom for an hour and a half
on Wednesday mornings.
Part
of their experience included a Field Trip
to Hunting Park and the vacant lot. For their final project, they
created a model of the surrounding row houses, and students created
parks that fit the model's scale.
