A geodesign collaboration for the Mission Valley project, San Diego, USA

Geodesign has been recently proposed as a structured decision-making workflow that if properly implemented allow to develop a forward-thinking, multidisciplinary and systems thinking design process. In 2018, the International Geodesign Collaboration (IGC) brought together more than 90 Universities around the world in researching geodesign as a design methodology to tackle some of the most pressing problems for sustainable development on a global scale, such as climate and demographic changes. Each partner institution applied the geodesign framework to develop alternative futures for a local study area. The results of the design workshops organized worldwide were shared and compared at the meeting held in Redlands on February 2019. Following the IGC instructions, the research team of the San Diego State University, California, USA set up an academic workshop involving a group of graduate and post-graduate students in designing a master-plan for a new satellite campus in the Mission Valley area in San Diego. This paper presents the local change assumptions, the methodology and the geospatial technologies used to represent and design the study area in two time periods (2035, 2050) using different development scenarios (Non-Adopter, Late Adopter, Early Adopter).