 The idea for the project, for the Public Works project, was to try to think together in a critical manner, as we do in any university, about a question, largely, broadly the climate question. We have felt here at the Buell Center that it has been our responsibility to model and to frame these kinds of questions and their consequences in this case for teaching and for learning about the built environment. One of the exciting things about this studio has been that students are simultaneously designing a building proposal and also a policy that will make that building proposal possible and really scale up the prototype of the building. And this is one way that we're addressing the Green New Deal and the United States and policy by saying what are the kind of laws and regulations that can be created that will allow us to have a huge impact, that will allow buildings to not just be one-offs, but to have a big scale and big effect. The Green New Deal has already been incredibly polarized by the current political climate that we're in now, but the reality is when we started to look at what the actual components of a Green New Deal and a reinvestment in ecological infrastructure and social infrastructure and housing and mobility and so on, these aspects, regardless of any political party, would be truly transformational and are really what is needed in these small towns and cities that have experienced a long-term kind of chronic disinvestment. In dealing with something as urgent as the Green New Deal, we were forced to think one in terms of urgency and two in terms of realism and those are the most important finds of the studio. How can we actually now, architects, invent new situations, propose different ways, alternative ways to deal with reality, but in a way that actually those ideas could be realistically improved? I think that this as an initiative and a project is both a sort of combination of the efforts that have been going on at the school for the past five years, but also a sort of turning point and a new beginning. Moving forward, we are going to intensify even further learning from this experience.