Ashlee Waldner is a fourth-year Psychology student at the University of Saskatchewan, currently pursuing an Honours degree. Growing up in rural Saskatchewan sparked her interest in understanding how environments influence people’s experiences, behaviours, and interactions with their communities. Following her undergraduate studies, she plans to pursue graduate education and is particularly interested in working with individuals and communities to support positive social outcomes.
This past spring students from the University of Saskatchewan’s Regional and Urban Planning Program participated in Planning 305: Urban Design and Active Transportation. This course included two weeks of intensive active learning in Amsterdam (May 10-23).
Students engaged in cycling, walking, and tram riding, to experience active mobility. Students also visited other Netherland cities including Delft, Utrecht, Houten and The Hague.
The field school experience highlighted the importance of integrated land use planning and good urban design as essential ingredients to support active transportation.
While in Amsterdam, students conducted a research project aimed at drawing a comparative analysis between Amsterdam and Saskatoon. To do this, students in groups of two chose a particular topic of interest and then used video to capture their research story. Video footage was first recorded in Amsterdam and then, upon their return, in Saskatoon. Using editing techniques, each student group produced a high-quality video presentation to highlight their research topic and findings.
In this session, you will see two of these final video project presentations and hear from the students about their findings and recommendations.
