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

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.

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 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 Naudei 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. Abendrot