1st Edition

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies

Edited By Lisa Abendroth, Bryan Bell Copyright 2019
    366 Pages 122 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    366 Pages 122 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective curriculum necessary to teach public interest designers. The second book in Routledge’s Public Interest Design Guidebook series, the editors and contributors feature a range of learning competencies supported by distinct teaching strategies where educational and community-originated goals unite. Written in a guidebook format that includes projects from across design disciplines, this book describes the learning deemed most critical to pursuing an inclusive, informed design practice that meets the diverse needs of both students and community partners.

    Featured chapter themes include Fundamental Skills, Intercultural Competencies, Engaging the Field Experience, Inclusive Iteration, and Evaluating Student Learning. The book consists of practice-based and applied learning constructs that bridge community-based research with engaged learning and design practice. SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design) academic case studies introduce teaching strategies that reinforce project-specific learning objectives where solving social, economic, and environmental issues unites the efforts of communities, student designers, and educators. This comprehensive publication also contains indices devoted to learning objectives cross-referenced from within the book as well as considerations for educational program development in public interest design.

    Whether you are a student of design, an educator, or a designer, the breadth of projects and teaching strategies provided here will empower you to excel in your pursuit of public interest design.

    Contents

    Acknowledgments

    Foreword: Can Public Interest Design Be Taught?

    Rahul Mehrotra

    Introduction: Public Interest Design Pedagogy

    Lisa M. Abendroth and Bryan Bell

    Part 1: Public Interest Design Curricula
    1. Whole-Systems Public Interest Design Education: Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington

    Jeffrey Hou, Ben Spencer, and Daniel Winterbottom

    2. Educating the Next Generation of Social Innovators: Designmatters at ArtCenter

    Mariana Amatullo, Dan Gottlieb, Penny Herscovitch, and Susannah Ramshaw

    3. Changing Practice, Practicing Change: The Graduate Certificate in Public Interest Design at Portland State University

    R. Todd Ferry and Sergio Palleroni


    4. A Comprehensive Public Interest Design Curriculum: College of Design, North Carolina State University

    Bryan Bell, Robin Abrams, and Gene Bressler


    5. Connecting Classrooms and Publics: The University of California, Davis, Center for Design in the Public Interest

    Susan Verba, Sarah Perrault, and Tracy Manuel

    6. Design (Education) to Create Meaningful Change: The Design for Social Impact Masters Program at the University of the Arts

    Anthony Guido with Jeremy Beaudry, Jamer Hunt, Sharon Lefevre, Michael McAllister, and Jonas Milder

    7. Collaborating for Change in New Orleans: Small Center for Collaborative Design

    Maggie Hansen and Emilie Taylor Welty

    8. From the Ground Up: Envisioning an MFA in Public Interest Design at Metropolitan State University of Denver

    Lisa M. Abendroth, Kelly Monico, and Peter Miles Bergman

    Part 2: Educating the Public Interest Designer
    Fundamental Skills
    9. Fundamental Skills: Developing Social Literacy through Practice-Based Learning

    Lee Davis and Mike Weikert

    10. The Edge Effect: PROJECT RE_

    John Folan

    11. Preparing to Design With: IMPACT Orientation

    Megan Clark and Shalini Agrawal

    12. Democratic Civic Engagement: The USAER XXXIV Training Center for Special Education

    Pedro Pacheco

    Intercultural Competencies
    13. Intercultural Competencies: Teaching the Intangible

    Ursula Hartig and Nina Pawlicki


    14. Creating Design Leaders: The African Design Centre

    Christian Benimana

    15. Teaching Intrapersonal Development, Improving Interpersonal and Intercultural Skill Sets: The Transforming Mindsets Studio

    Lisa Grocott and Kate McEntee

    16. Addressing Air Pollution Impacts on Senior Citizens in Beijing, China: The International Urbanization Seminar

    Deland Chan

    Engaging the Field Experience
    17. Engaging the Field Experience: Integrated, Interdisciplinary, On-Site, Enduring

    Benjamin R. Spencer

    18. iZindaba Zokudla (Conversations about Food): Innovation in the Soweto Food System

    Angus Donald Campbell and Naudeì Malan

    19. Building Partnerships and Awareness: Healing an Urban Stream

    Brian Gaudio

    20. Advancing Resiliency: The Huxtable Fellowship in Civic Engagement and Service Learning

    Benjamin Peterson

    Inclusive Iteration
    21. Inclusive Iteration: Participation as Method in Design Theory and Practice

    Eduardo Staszowski

    22. "Making" Change Together: Rust to Green’s Placemaking Praxis

    Paula Horrigan

    23. Building User Capacity through Iterative Processes: Ten Friends Diner

    Edward M. Orlowski and Julia Jovanovic

    24. Examining Collaborative Efforts to Visualize Community Transformation: Alexandra Youth Precinct Project

    Chris Harnish

    Evaluating Student Learning
    25. Evaluating Student Learning: Engaging Experience to Create Agents of Change

    Nadia M. Anderson

    26. Assessing Experiential Learning in Design Education: The Practice Department at The Boston Architectural College

    Bethany Lundell Garver

    27. Merging Research, Scholarship, and Community Engagement: Roche Health Center

    Michael Zaretsky

    28. Reflecting through Razor Wire: The Environmental Justice in Prisons Project

    Julie Stevens

    Part 3: SEED Academic Case Studies
    29. The SEED Process for Academia

    Lisa M. Abendroth and Bryan Bell

    30. SEED Academic Case Studies

    Lisa M. Abendroth and Bryan Bell

    1. Design in Partnership with the Lama Foundation
    2. Pleasant Street Pedestrian Project
    3. A Social Approach to Design
    4. Cooperative Education at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center
    5. Com(m)a
    6. The Farm Rover
    7. On Site: Public Art and Design
    8. South of California Avenue
    9. With Sacramento


    31. Afterword: A Public Interest Design Educational Platform

    Thomas Fisher

    Part 4: Appendix

    Glossary

    Biographies

    Reading List

    Appendix A: Learning Objective Index

    Appendix B: Program Considerations Index

    Image Credits

    Index

    Biography

    Lisa M. Abendroth is a professor in the Communication Design program at Metropolitan State University of Denver in Colorado, USA. She is a SEED Network founding member and a recipient of the SEED Award for Leadership in Public Interest Design. Her work focuses on the social, economic, and environmental impacts of design created within the contexts of underserved people, places, and problems. Abendroth is a coeditor of the Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues (2016). 

    Bryan Bell founded Design Corps in 1991 with the mission to provide the benefits of design for the 98 percent without architects. Bell has published three books on public interest design. His work has been supported by the American Institute of Architects Latrobe Prize and through a Harvard Loeb Fellowship. His designs have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Bell holds degrees from Princeton University, USA, and Yale University, USA. He teaches at North Carolina State University, USA.

    "This book fills an important gap for Public Interest Design educators.  It includes essays and case studies on design projects at a wide range of scales, prepared by designers that truly understand public interest work.  It is likely to become required reading for anyone committed to serving the public through design."
    John Quale, Chair, Department of Architecture, University of New Mexico
    Founder and Director of the ecoMOD Project

     

    "The Public Interest Design Education Guidebook is a practical and detailed collection of essays, case studies, and critical assessment of community-engaged teaching methods and approaches in architecture and design. Faculty, administrators, students, and community members  will find inspiration, lessons learned, and practical teaching and assessment techniques to inspire and challenge the learning and teaching of design for the public good."
    Liz Kramer, Associate Director, Office for Socially Engaged Practice, Washington University in St. Louis.

     

    "Abendroth and Bell have provided an important and inspiring public interest design roadmap. They use case studies to help others understand the efficacy of diverse strategies in a variety of settings. Effective planning and design become far more impactful through engagement and empathy."
    Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA
    Michael Sacks Chair in Civic Engagement and Social Entrepreneurship
    Tulane University