The Canadian students from Kingston University with professor Ajay Agarwal.
During the first two weeks of December, and for the third
time, a group of ten students from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada) and
their professor Dr. Ajay Agarwal, stayed in Auroville. As part of their Masters
in Urban and Regional Planning, the students designed a community participation
framework for Auroville to be used for planning community projects. In
collaboration with the Auroville Sustainability Institute and L’Avenir
d’Auroville, they chose to focus their research on community participation in
the planning and development of sectors one and two of the Residential Zone in
Auroville (between Grace and Prarthana). The specific topic they tackled was to
identify the need of “community features/supporting facilities” in these
sectors. The goal was to design a clear guide for incorporating people’s views
and opinions into the planning process in order to make it more inclusive and
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