SIGUS partnered with 45 earthquake-displaced families in designing their resettlement community in a 1-week workshop. Both adults and children actively particpated in the workshop. Essentially, two workshops ran parallel with joint meetings at various points to exchange ideas. Three students from the Department of Architecture and Department of Urban Studies and Plannin participated (Gabriel Arboleda, Melody Tulier, Susana Williams), as well as staff from two local NGOs and students from local universities in El Salvador. Information was also collected on prototype houses which were offered to the displaced families. This information provided material for further study during the fall term at MIT in the course, "The New Practitioner." Preliminary field surveys from two 'site and services' low-cost developments from the 70s were also undertaken as further reference for the course at MIT. The workshop was made possible through funding from the MIT Service Learning Center and Trocaire, an Irish-Catholic NGO.