The innovative DesignBuildUTAH program teaches architecture students design and building skills while working alongside the communities in the Navajo Nation to deliver needed affordable and sustainable homes.

Permaculture is a creative design process based on whole-systems thinking informed by ethics and design principles. This approach seeks to mimic the patterns and relationships we can find in nature and can be applied to all aspects of human habitation, from agriculture to ecological building, from appropriate technology to education and even metropolises.