Student Reflection - Esri Geodesign Internship

Lara Garcia, Penn State MLA and Geodesign Certificate candidate, spent this past summer as an intern for ESRI on the State and Local Government Services team.  In this short article, she reflects on her time there and how her Geodesing coursework helped prepare her for the job.

"I understood that we are living a moment of a critical review of past planning practices, and there was an active need for a feasible participatory method. From my first introductory course in geodesign, I realized that geodesign stands as an effective collaborative framework to reach solutions on social, environmental and economic demands. It does so because it successfully bridges designers, scientists and stakeholders to analyze the scope of geographical problems carefully, and then explore evidence-based decisions by evaluating optimal future scenarios."

  Read the full story at this link.