Educational Videos
University of Pennsylvania Online Courses
Below are four short excerpts from two Coursera courses made by Jonah Stern for Penn's School of Design in 2014.
Designing Cities
Course instructors: Jonathan Barnett, Gary Hack, and Stefan Al.
The course explores visionary and practical concepts of city design and planning, past and present, and how design can address such looming challenges as urban population growth, climate change and rising sea levels. Participants will be encouraged to make proposals for city design and development, starting with their own immediate environment.
Excerpt #1: Gary Hack on Retrofitting Infrastructure
Excerpt #2: Stefan Al on Technological Visions
Sustainability in Practice
Course instructors: Mark Alan Hughes and Leslie Billhymer
Sustainability is a practice operating across a variety of scales and skills. We will explore the ways that decision makers use systems analysis and design thinking to confront the career-defining challenges facing the next generation of leaders. Networks of practice from across North America and around the globe will provide case material and guest lectures.
Excerpt #3: Mark Alan Hughes on Climate Change Primer
Excerpt #4: Leslie Billhymer on Sketching
Research Schools International
Directed, filmed, and edited by Jonah Stern
This video is about the Research Schools International global exchange program in association with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The program pairs elementary school children in the United States with elementary school children in countries all over the world that have diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, seeking to create connections between the two groups beginning at a young age.