</i></p> <p>Global Studio was spearheaded by the United Nations Millennium Project Task Force on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers in 2004, and developed by the Universities of Sydney, Columbia and Rome. Global Studio is a community-based action and research project which aims to help improve people’s lives in disadvantaged communities through building capability and enabling change. Global Studio facilitates and feeds a developing national and international network of design and planning students, academics, and professionals who will be able to contribute more effectively to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, and especially goal 7 to “ensure environmental sustainability’. Since its inception in Istanbul in 2005, over 400 participants from 66 universities and 34 countries have been involved in Global Studio.</p> <p><strong>Global Studio Johannesburg 2008<br /> </strong>In collaboration with Wits University and the City of Johannesburg, 28 international and national design students carried on the work from 2007, working in Diepsloot, specifically 4 projects of: Information, Insulation, Environment, and Arts and Culture.</p> <p>
