This website reflects a joint effort from staff and students at the Joint Centre for Urban Design to develop a web based multimedia open educational resource (OER) that reinforces a discipline-specific identity and offers a reliable and validated resource for learners and professionals as well as a platform for staff and student development and knowledge transfer.

The collaborative and open character of the process and product are proposed to stimulate a dialogical approach to learning, liberated from strong notions of hierarchy. Students and staff can contribute with material developed within the modules, and from extracurricular activities (for example participation in competitions, study visits, research and consultancy work). Contributions can take a variety of forms from more traditional webpages to posts to a dedicated twitter account.