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10.1: HOW CAN DESIGNERS BE ADVOCATES?Nov 10, 2015 · Amos Rapoport- The Importance of Meaning...
Transcript of 10.1: HOW CAN DESIGNERS BE ADVOCATES?Nov 10, 2015 · Amos Rapoport- The Importance of Meaning...
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1. Insightful Questions + Responses2. Recitation and Review3. A Timeline for Design Activism
10.1: HOW CAN DESIGNERS BE ADVOCATES?
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ARCH 3711: BUILDING A CRITICAL DIALOGUE
COURSE IN REVIEW: HYPOTHESIS TO THESIS
Because the environment is fundamentally a social and cultural medium, environmental designers must understand how an environment affects people and how people can best create environments.
By employing critical thinking skills founded in cultural approaches, reading places within our culture, and understanding a professional’s role in support of society’s welfare designers can create environments that are more resilient, sustainable, engaging, and equitable.
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WHAT TOPICS TO SUPPORT OUR THESIS?
Employ critical thinking skills founded in a cultural approach
“Read” places within our culture
Understand a professional’s role in support of society’s welfare
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WHAT TOPICS TO SUPPORT OUR THESIS?
Employ critical thinking skills founded in a cultural approach (Papers + Responses)
“Read” places within our culture (Lectures + Projects)
Understand a professional’s role in support of society’s welfare (Lectures + Portfolio)
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DEVELOPING A QUESTION MIND
We cannot assume that clients shares our culture, values, or attitudes.
We may introduce our own cultural bias in understanding their issues.
We cannot assume that communication with clients will be
straightforward.
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WEAVING DESIGN + ACTIVISM
ENVIRONMENTEQUITYHOUSINGHUMANITARIANPOLITICSPUBLICATIONS
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1930-1940
Albert Speer- Role of Classicism in Nazism
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1950-1960
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1950-1960
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1960-1970
Louise Mozinga- Women and Downtown SpacesJohn Lang- Privacy, Territoriality, Space
Amos Rapoport- The Importance of MeaningLeland Roth- The Architect:
From High Priest to ProfessionalWhitney Young- Address to the AIA
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1968: American civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. addresses the AIA National Convention.
“As a profession, you are not a profession that has distinguished itself by your social and civic contributions to the cause of civil rights, and I am sure this has not come to you as any shock. You are most distinguished by your thunderous silence and your complete irrelevance.”
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“We wanted to be the conscience of the profession… that’s probably exaggerated, but we wanted to raise those issues.”
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1970-1980
Clare Cooper- The House as a Symbol of SelfMichel Foucault- Panopticism
M.L.J. Abercrombie- Face to FaceL. Marshall- Each Side of the Fire
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1980-1990Louise Mozinga- Women and Downtown Spaces
John Lang- Privacy, Territoriality, SpaceAmos Rapoport- The Importance of Meaning
Leland Roth- The Architect: From High Priest to Professional
Peter Eisenmann + Christopher Alexander-Contrasting Concepts of Harmony in Architecture
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1990-2000
Herman Hertzberger- Place and ArticulationGordon Brown- Multi-Cell Analysis
David Diamond- Gated CommunitiesThomas Markus- Power
Kathering Bristol- The Pruitt-Igoe MythBlack Elk- The First Cure
Kim Dovey- EthicsAnthony Ward- Biculturalism and Community
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Galen Cranz- The Alexander TechniqueSamuel Mockbee- The Role of the Citizen Architect
Julia Robinson- Space and Power RelationsLisa Findlay- Power, Space, and Architecture
E.O. Wilson- A Letter to ThoreauLisa Heschong- Daylighting Impacts
Denise Scott Brown- American PlacesJohn Cary- Power of Pro Bono
Kate Stohr- 100 Years of Humanitarian Design
Myron Orfield- The Choice is OursDavid Perkes- Practicing Experience
Bruce Nussbaum/Cameron Sinclair/Emily Pilloton-Is Humanitarian Architecture the New Imperialism
Emily Eakin- Cities and Their New EliteMichael Speakes- Design Intelligence and the New Economy
Susan Rogers- An Architecture of ChangeJohn Zeisel- Design Case Studies
2000-2010
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2010-PRESENT
Jahn Gehl- How to Study Public LifeJeffrey Hou- Making Public Beyond Public Space
Cawo Abdi- Homeland Politics: Competing NarrativesAnthony Schumann- Community Engagement
Architecture’s Evolving Social VocationCraig Wilkins- The Soul Practitioner
Thomas Fisher- The Ethics of Housing the PoorMichael Pyatok- Working in the Mainstream, Designing for the Public
Ellin Nan- The Tao of Urbanism
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DEVELOPING A QUESTION MIND
Asset-based approach
Understanding and evaluating local skills and resources collaboratively
Creating equitable partnership
Committing to sustained exchange
Unloading preconceived notions and biases
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COURSE IN REVIEW: HYPOTHESIS TO THESIS
Because the environment is fundamentally a social and cultural medium, environmental designers must understand how an environment affects people and how people can best create environments.
By employing critical thinking skills founded in cultural approaches, reading places within our culture, and understanding a professional’s role in support of society’s welfare designers can create environments that are more resilient, sustainable, engaging, and equitable.
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30 PARTNERS20 COURSES200 STUDENTS
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36,000 HOURS
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WEAVING DESIGN + ACTIVISM
ENVIRONMENTEQUITYHOUSINGHUMANITARIANPOLITICS + POLICYPUBLICATIONS
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COURSE IN REVIEW: HYPOTHESIS TO THESIS
Because the environment is fundamentally a social and cultural medium, environmental designers must understand how an environment affects people and how people can best create environments.
By employing critical thinking skills founded in cultural approaches, reading places within our culture, and understanding a professional’s role in support of society’s welfare designers can create environments that are more resilient, sustainable, engaging, and equitable.
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Exercise + Questions