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Book SynopsisPublic 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 en
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"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
Table of ContentsContents
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 Curricula1. 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
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- Design in Partnership with the Lama Foundation
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- Pleasant Street Pedestrian Project
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- A Social Approach to Design
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- Cooperative Education at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center
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- Com(m)a
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- The Farm Rover
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- On Site: Public Art and Design
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- South of California Avenue
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- 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
