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Housing Futures
Housing Futures
What might education look like when students engage directly with Hawaiʻi’s housing realities?
The Hulihia Initiative explores how housing can become a shared interdisciplinary challenge — one that invites collaboration across design, culture, storytelling, policy, sustainability, technology, and community engagement.
The following examples are intended to help educators, students, and community partners envision how housing-related issues can be explored through curriculum, creative practice, and applied learning.
Community Storytelling & Oral Histories
Example: Students document the lived experiences of local residents navigating housing insecurity, multigenerational living, displacement, or changing neighborhood identities.
Possible outcomes:
documentaries
podcasts
digital archives
interactive maps
social media campaigns
Designing Shared Spaces
Example: Students rethink how public gathering spaces, courtyards, walkways, and TOD environments can foster belonging, safety, and community interaction.
Possible outcomes:
speculative visualizations
installations
public art concepts
community workshops
wayfinding systems
Housing Data & Visualization
Example: Students analyze housing trends, transportation access, and demographic shifts to communicate complex community issues through accessible visual storytelling.
Possible outcomes:
dashboards
infographics
GIS storytelling
data journalism
policy explainers
Future Living & Emerging Technologies
Example: Students explore how emerging technologies, adaptive systems, and community-centered innovation could support future housing resilience in Hawaiʻi.
Possible outcomes:
VR/AR prototypes
smart community concepts
speculative media
AI-assisted planning visualizations
Marionʻs Example
Marionʻs Example
Sharlaʻs Example
Sharlaʻs Example
Skye Hoopai, Senior Capstone project
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