The New Community Project Partners with Lower School PE Classes

Students in the upper school New Community Project class partnered with the lower school PE classes recently as part of their field work for their 2016-17 work with Community Partnership School.  One of the research and design opportunities for students is to build recess opportunities for children in an urban setting with limited space. Working with the lower school gave students the opportunity to understand the role of play, the need for recess, and child agency.

The New Community Project Share Night

Chidi Asoluka, Director of the New Community Project and his students have been working with the Philadelphia not-for-profit Urbanstead dedicated to eradicating food deserts in the city.  Just prior to spring break students presented their work in fundraising, programming, and marketing to the GA community.

Social Entrepreneurs: The New Community Project Share Night

On March 17th student social entrepreneurs, members of The New Community Project presented their project plans for Tree House Books in Philadelphia. Read more about the social entrepreneurship at GA and the New Community Project here.

Introducing The New Community Project

Founded and directed by Chidi Asoluka, this Upper School project-based team-taught course employs the concepts of design thinking (empathic problem solving), and the disciplines of History, English, and Arts to explore challenges related to community in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs.  Working in tandem with students from a variety of schools, this course seeks to have a parallel online space for communication and problem solving.The New Community Project refers to how we define community, how we know a community, how we build community through collaboration, and how online teaching and gathering spaces form their own unique new communities challenging our assumptions about the construct itself.