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In 2004, the first Graduation Studio was completed, as the most significant manifestation of the school’s production and the graduate profile. The degree culminates with the project and the construction of an in situ work. The Graduation Studio is individual and requires students to define the prior conditions, get involved with the communities, build a network of relationships that allows them to mobilize energies so that the work happens, while managing and executing the material, financial, and construction possibilities of the work. The studio lasts eight months and begins in March with the definition of the site, the problem, or the research topic. In May and June, students develop the overall idea and the project. In July and August, they prepare the construction details and present the project to an evaluation group to request the “construction pass.” Over the following two months they complete the construction of the work. Since the implementation of this program, the school has built more than 700 projects across Chile’s Central Valley, which have served to strengthen community ties in the region.