Success from the Bottom-Up: Lessons Learned in Haiti’s Archaie Region

Professional engagements in foreign territories can be complicated. In unknown terrains,preconceived notions of goodness and beauty, predetermined outcomes, anda pervasive sense of otherness infiltrate almost every professional action. Our workin the Arcahaie region of Haiti was not exempt from any of these complications. Thispaper summarizes the results of our mission to draw a regional “roadmap for change”after the devastating earthquake of 2010, and highlights lessons learned to advancethe work of professionals involved in the physical design of cities and architecture aswell as new methodologies for scholarship and research in foreign territories.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6