A Proposed Curriculum for the Wildrock High School Leadership Program

The following report describes a community-based partnership facilitated through Barbara Brown Wilson’s course, Community-Engaged Methods, with a student team at the University of Virginia assisting Wildrock to create a design thinking process curriculum for Charlottesville High School Students to design pop-up parks.
Here, we detail a partnership between Carolyn Schuyler and Wildrock (community partner) and five University of Virginia students (student partners), Keren Shi, Willow Davies, Alexa Angelo, Neeka Samimi, and Sabiya Davis. The research team is composed of graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Virginia in Urban and Environmental Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Public Policy programs.
Central to the project’s mission is to create a reproducible curriculum to engage with high school students so they can bring their best to plan and create neighborhood pop-ups. With the curriculum, we hope we can support students to be design leaders in the future.
The project began on September 11, 2021, and was completed by December 7, 2021.
The student partners would like to thank Carolyn Schuyler and Barbara Brown Wilson for helping establish, support, and encourage this partnership and research effort.