Design Action: North Lawndale | Teaching How to Respond to Community Needs with Community Means

Our Design Action studio class is a collaborative space for students and community stakeholders to learn about one another and to acknowledge the need for public amenities and services in neighborhoods that the capitalist system has left wanting for investment. The projects that the students design using their own expertise and the mentorship of professional faculty are owned by the communities with which they are designed. This collaboration not only gives a form to the visions expressed by this community, it also presents the users as experts with their own rights to the spaces that are developed, giving them agency and tools to discuss improvements with both government and developers.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.82

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978-1-944214-37-1