The start of the school year marks Winka Dubbeldam’s first fall semester as chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. But the principal of New York firm Archi-tectonics has hardly been on summer vacation. She has been traveling the globe to discuss MyIdealCity.com, a crowd-sourced, bottom-up urban planning project for downtown Bogotá, Colombia, that she and her office helped develop. (“I love working there. I might be a closet Latin American,” says the Dutch-born architect.) The project is propelled by an English-Spanish website on which more than 3,000 urban planning and lifestyle questions have been asked since it launched this spring. Dubbeldam and her team are drawing trends from the answers and feeding the information into an ongoing set of proposals for the city. The project and research was the subject of an exhibition at Architecture Forum Aedes in Berlin this summer. Record spoke to Dubbeldam about My Ideal City’s innovations.
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