Fourth-year university students at LIT used Pyramid to investigate a wide range of global sustainability issues their possible solutions, ranging from water and sanitation issues in the developing world to problems in the global financial system, and how they all linked together. Building a creative and natural Pyramid out of willow rods from a university tree plantation, they plastered its sides with their insights, and came up with a long list of ideas for accelerating sustainable development, including:

• Invest in green technology
• Empower communities on how to make sand dams
• Develop more small scale organic cultivation
• Promote more Education for Sustainable Development
• Bring back the Irish “Meitheal” system
• Build more community level resilience
• Create new indicators of progress
• Shift from neoclassical to ecological economics

Their full report is available for download:

Download the LIT Tipperary Pyramid 2012 Report

Anika wrote: 

I am happy with the outcome of my workshop conducted with my students in Dhaka. I took two days prior conducting the workshop, one day for discussing the procedure, the other day for making the model. Then on 16th February, I conducted the final workshop from 8.30  a.m. to 6.30 p.m. The students were really motivated to work on this model after the introductory session before the workshop. And the model was a good one, the students applied their architectural creativity while making it, they made it with coloured acrylic sheet and put an electric light inside it.

The central challenge thrown to them was ‘ Urban Water Logging’, which is the most urgent urban problem faced due to climate change in Dhaka city. The outcome was really interesting… ‘A HYDRAULIC CITY’.

I will write to you in details regarding the workshop next week. Some photographs of the event are attached herewith. More to come with the report.”

Best,
Anika