Sustainable Thinking for Everyday Life
Build Your Skills. Shape the Future.
Starting with the 3Rs+U (reduce, reuse, recycle and upcycle) notion, this bootcamp introduces students to sustainable thinking concepts and everyday life practices. Students learn through various activities that include presentations, storytelling and round table discussions, allowing them to practice ideas that help improve their habits and immediate surroundings for an enhanced overall quality of life.
Students explore the holistic sustainable process and its correlation and interrelated implications in their communities. Reflecting on the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), students will participate in design games and perception tests on sustainable thinking principles and then connect these principles with architectural learning. After understanding the SDGs, students will apply their learning by producing small architectural models and posters. Through a pinup and a jury simulation, students present and debate the effectiveness of their projects in solving long-term built environment problems. Join us this summer for an immersive architectural bootcamp focused on sustainable development.
Learning Outcomes
- Acquaint students with sustainability-related terminologies.
- Introduce the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Identify daily sustainable practices for young adults.
- Promote the enhancement of the quality of life through urban planning and home design.
- Develop critical thinking skills.
- Enhance problem-solving skills.
- Acquire sketching, designing and model-making capabilities.
- Encourage debate and persuasion competencies.
- Develop verbal and visual presentation proficiencies.
Duration and Location
- January 3 - 6, 2027 (4 days)
- Sessions will run daily from 9 am to 4 pm
- AUC New Cairo campus
- Fridays and Saturdays off
- Holidays are already compensated for with extra hours
Who Can Apply?
Students aged 13-18 years.
Fees
- EGP 4,500 (price including materials needed)
- The following discounts are offered:
- 10% discount for siblings
- 10% discount for AUC faculty and staff
- 15% discount for AUC alumni
Certification
All participants will receive a certificate of participation from The American University in Cairo (AUC), provided they attend more than three out of five days for five-day bootcamps or more than three out of four days for four-day bootcamps.
Transportation
The AUC Bus Service is available for an extra fees. For more information, visit the Bus Service website.
About the Instructor
Heba Safey Eldeen
Heba Safey Eldeen is a professor of architecture and design at The American University in Cairo and Misr International University. She is the former director of the Architecture and Children Work program at the International Union of Architects and director of the House of Egyptian Architecture of the Ministry of Culture’s Cultural Development Fund. Among other activities, she organizes workshops, campaigns, training courses and awards for schools, institutions and individuals who help children and youth learn about the built environment, architecture, design, history, heritage and sustainability. Eldeen is passionate about developing the next generation of architects.
Refund and Bootcamp Switching Policy
A 100 percent refund of the program fees will be granted if the request is submitted at least two weeks before the course start date, or if the request is due to one of the following reasons:
- Course cancellation
- Medical withdrawal
- Visa denial
A 75 percent refund will be granted if the request is submitted within the last two weeks before the course start date.
No refund will be issued if the request is submitted after Wednesday (4 pm), the day before the end of the last working day, and before classes begin, including the weekend prior to the course start date, or after the course has begun.
Bootcamp transfers or switching between bootcamps are not permitted once a bootcamp has commenced.
Learning Environment
To ensure a positive experience for everyone, all participants should help us maintain a safe, respectful and inclusive learning environment.
Any form of physical or verbal aggression, including fighting, hitting, biting, bullying, threatening behavior, verbal abuse, the use of offensive or inappropriate language, or any conduct that disrupts the learning environment, will not be tolerated.
Participants who engage in such behavior may be immediately withdrawn from the bootcamp at the sole discretion of Summer@AUC and will not be permitted to attend the remaining bootcamp days. In such cases, no refund of the program fees will be provided.