The Puerto Rico Resiliency Lab is an intensive summer planning studio. Students will prepare in SLC prior to leaving for the 2-week Puerto Rico experience where they will work on topics related to ongoing recovery efforts in Puerto Rico. Students will work with a local community affected by the 2017 Hurricanes Irma and Maria. ​​Students then will travel to Puerto Rico from May 28 to June 11 to work with various organizations. The class will come back to SLC to analyze the data collected and prepare a final report. Events engage students directly with practitioners, city officials, and community groups. 

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• 6-week studio focused on resiliency projects that matter to communities

• Work under the direction of planners and emergency managers

• Engage with a spectrum of leaders: mayor’s office to activists to residents

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This partly-funded by Reaveley Engineers and the Global Change Sustainability Center studio course provides students with conceptual knowledge and hands-on experience with community-based disaster planning. Students will present their work at the Utah Disaster Resilience Symposium to be held in Salt Lake City in Fall 2022. Students must apply to travel to Puerto Rico but they do not need to travel to be enrolled in the course. 

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