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Educating the Future
I recently had the good fortune of dining amongst a great crew of individuals, most of whom are working on social design and entrepreneurship initiatives throughout the city of Detroit. The gathering was hosted by Juliette LaMontagne of Project Breaker and Susie Wise, K12 Lab Director at the D.School.
Giving Back
The always inspiring Dawn Hancock on the value design and designers bring to the social good space. “I’ve never thought design and doing good in the world were mutually exclusive.” Me either Dawn. Me either.
Purposefully Practical
An article recently appeared on good.is, entitled Rebrand Your ‘Hood for Good. There is much to garner here particularly if you happen to be one in the great mass of millennials seeking to ‘be the change’ in your city, town, neighborhood, whistle-stop, etc. (And lets face it…who isn’t these days?)
Today, Here 11/13/12: Bringing local and national players together in Detroit to discuss and act upon pressing needs in placemaking. With insight from Fred Kent, of Projects for Public Spaces and John Norquist, from Congress for the New Urbanism. An exhausting but exciting couple of days indeed!
Design. Where to go from here.
The phrase design activism has become quite prolific in recent years and sits snugly among a sea of related terms like humanitarian design, public interest design, social design and many others. Countless books, exhibitions, workshops, MFA programs, summits and the like have emerged, each seeking to explore this notion of activism in design, what it means, who’s doing it, how to do it, etc.
For the past five years, I too have been studying this change emerging among design discourse, always asking myself the same question: How do I do design work that matters?
Urban Tactics
Somewhere in between syllabus writing, book designing and interviewing apprentices this week, I’ve managed to sneak in some time to read through Tactical Urbanism 2: Short-Term Action, Long Term Change (pdf downloadable here), a guidebook put together by the Street Plans Collaborative, an urban planning, design and advocacy firm.
Today, Here 8/22/12: Logo Schmogo
Today, Here 8/13/12: We’re looking for apprentices to work at the Lab. Apply!
Detroit: Room for 1,000,000 more
Spent most of yesterday working on a pitch document that outlines a forthcoming initiative to gain 25,000 new workers in downtown Detroit by 2015. Ambitious? Yes. But it happened once, and I believe it can happen again. Stay tuned.
Rules of Engagement
A very thoughtful piece of writing by the always insightful John Thackera. Thackera offers his readers a few ‘rules of engagement,’ when designing for social impact.
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