Teaching Fellows

Teaching Fellows

Teaching Fellows are university faculty who want to teach concepts and align student Participatory Action Research projects along themes of urban innovation and adaptation. We encourage teachers of architecture, engineering, the social sciences, the natural sciences, and all other disciplines to apply.

Practitioners in NGOs, civic organizations, and government agencies who have an interest in advancing city development may also apply.

The objectives of the Teaching Fellowship are:

  1. to provide teaching and students with a more powerful and complex learning experience where the city is a laboratory for social innovation
  2. to strengthen the Teaching Fellow's research and publication portfolio through student-driven participatory action-research at the City Futures Lab
  3. to link the Teaching Fellow and her university (optional) to a broader community of practice and professional network

Teaching Fellows are expected to:

  • devote at least 20 lecture or project hours per semester to on topics on the New Urban Agenda, city resilience, or the city amidst climate change.
  • Advise at least three student projects per semester that tackle local issues of city transformation renewal and share their project outputs through a 5-minute video plus publish their report on the City Futures Lab website and social media channels
  • Produce at least three 6-minute mini-lecture videos on any theme of urban renewal for sharing at the Urban Renewal Lab's Youtube channel. Click here for various themes you may want to discuss in your video
  • contribute at least one blog post per month on the City Future Lab's Facebook page, and cultivate the social network around the local City Futures Lab FB page and community
  • mentor promising students on leadership and change-making through urban renewal

A good teaching fellow is an advocate and innovator, and believes in the capacity of teachers and students to make a difference in the world. Click here for an example of a model teaching fellow (though this example is not quite the urban renewal sphere).

Teaching fellows are also encouraged to work with at a barangay or a department within city government and actively co-design and prototype projects with that unit over a period of two or more semesters.

For now, Teaching Fellows are not paid by the City Futures Lab. We are, however, working to secure incentives and other opportunities for the Teaching Fellows.

References:

UN New Urban Agenda (click here)

UNDP Sustainable Cities (click here)