Reference Unit 6 calendar: when each block runs
| Block | A rotation | B rotation |
|---|---|---|
| Block 1 | Fri Apr 2 | Wed Apr 7 |
| Block 2 | Tue Apr 6 | Fri Apr 9 |
| Block 3 | Thu Apr 8 | Tue Apr 13 |
| Block 4 | Mon Apr 12 | Fri Apr 16 |
| Block 5 | Thu Apr 15 | Tue Apr 20 |
| Block 6 | Mon Apr 19 | Thu Apr 22 |
| Block 7 | Wed Apr 21 | Mon Apr 26 |
| Block 8 | Fri Apr 23 | Wed Apr 28 |
| Block 9 | Tue Apr 27 | Fri Apr 30 |
| Block 10 | Thu Apr 29 | Tue May 4 |
Your section follows one rotation, A or B. Check which one you are in and read that column.
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Unit 6 widens the lens one more time. In Unit 5 you weighed competing claims over water. Here you weigh competing claims over the built environment people actually live in. The frame is the 15-minute neighborhood: a place where daily needs (live, work, shop, learn, heal, play, move) sit within a short walk or cycle of home, so the car becomes optional rather than mandatory.
Each of you takes a Chennai area (a ward, a named neighborhood, or a defined 15-minute catchment) and redesigns it across 8 urban land uses. The catch is the one this whole year has been building toward: there is no allocation that wins on every objective. Density buys housing but costs green space. Permeable land buys flood resilience but costs buildable area. The summative, the Sustainable Neighborhood Plan, is scored on whether you name and quantify those trade-offs honestly. A plan that claims to maximize everything is hiding its trade-offs, and that is a hard cap on the Thinking and Transfer strand.
Two AI partners enter the unit and they disagree on purpose. The Urban Planner pushes density, housing, and economic vitality. The Equity & Resilience Partner pushes green-blue space, flood and heat protection, and the rights of people who could be displaced. Your job is to synthesize their disagreement, not to average them or pick one.
The Communication performance is public. Rather than a peer panel, you present your redesign as a real activity at the school's environmental showcase, with a shareable artifact posted through a student takeover of the school's Instagram account, framed for a real municipal audience (the Greater Chennai Corporation, the CMDA, or your ward office). The design guardrail: a public message rewards a clean story, but your artifact still has to show what your plan gave up, not hide it.