Students will be able to investigate the perspectives and needs of shared-space users, Kumeyaay communities, and local plants and animals to understand how empathy and firsthand evidence guide responsible design.

Students will be able to analyze maps, interviews, approved sources, bioblitz graphs, and government decision maps to explain how people, wildlife, land, and civic systems are connected.

Students will be able to define a shared-space design problem using user needs, urban-wildlife habitat needs, measurable criteria, and practical constraints.

Students will be able to prototype a Living Words shared-space proposal through annotated sketches, a scale model, an area-and-perimeter plan, and a theater, poetry, storytelling, podcast, or broadcast component to make community connections visible and audible.

Students will be able to refine writing, artwork, performances, recordings, and spatial designs using kind, specific, helpful feedback from peers, approved AI tools, families, and community partners.

Students will be able to communicate an evidence-based response to “If our city could talk, what would it ask us?” through collaborative discussion, an artist statement, visual data, and a rehearsed live or recorded presentation.