Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation (MSEUF) strengthened Sustainable Cities and Communities efforts by integrating heritage learning spaces on campus and partnering with Lucena City on a museum-scale urban model, actions that help residents visualize their city, engage with planners, and champion accessible, people-friendly movement in line with SDG 11.
On Oct. 4, 2024, MSEUF unveiled Casa Segunda inside the University Village along Enverga Boulevard, relocating and restoring one of Lucena’s most iconic ancestral houses. The site now serves as a living heritage hub and venue for academic enrichment, cultural performances, and community events that build civic pride and informed participation in city-making.
On Dec. 19, 2024, the College of Architecture and Fine Arts (CAFA) joined the Lucena Council for Culture and the Arts to restore and update the Lucena City Scale Model (diorama) for the soon-to-reopen Museo de Lucena. Guided by a city-curated list of emerging landmarks, CAFA faculty, alumni, and students enhanced the model to reflect present-day growth, an educational lens that helps residents and officials discuss urban form, landmarks, and connectivity.
How these actions support SDG 11
What 11 measures: the proportion of people with convenient access to public transport, emphasizing walkable connections to stops and stations. Universities can contribute by improving public engagement and spatial literacy that inform transport planning and community advocacy.
MSEUF’s contribution in practice
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Civic learning spaces: Casa Segunda’s move into an open, campus-based venue invites schools, barangays, and civic groups to use heritage as a gateway to talk about walkability, access, and neighborhood connectivity around a central corridor (Enverga Boulevard).
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City modeling for dialogue: The upgraded Lucena diorama gives a shared map for stakeholders to identify destinations, gaps, and opportunities for safer, more accessible routes to public facilities and transport nodes—supporting evidence-based community conversations.
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Student-led urban stewardship: CAFA’s intergenerational team (alumni and students) models citizen co-creation with local government—an approach that nurtures future transport- and planning-literate professionals.
Why this matters for the community
By pairing a heritage hub with a city-scale model, MSEUF helps residents understand how places connect and how people move, key inputs when government measures access to public transport and upgrades networks for vulnerable users such as women, children, older persons, and persons with disabilities.
These initiatives reflect MSEUF’s values of Mindfulness, Service, Excellence, Unity, and Fortitude, turning the campus into a civic classroom where culture, planning, and mobility come together to shape a more inclusive, connected Lucena.
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