Graphic and communication designers are ill-equipped when using their skills non-commerically to serve neighborhoods. This study—for my graduate thesis—resulted in the beginnings of a neighborhood-centered design methodology.
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Design after Capitalism is a book by DAAP professor Matthew Wizinsky. The website promotes the book while offering tools that transfer its concepts to students and practitioners.
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This research project reads cultural relations in Price Hill by mixing census data with an ethnography of visual design. The reading reveals that people often stay within their cultural boundaries. It concludes with several speculative event proposals that convene people with diverse identities.
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Many Americans live in a vehicle to mitigate their financial pressures. This is not a long-term solution. This design research project draws attention to the crisis through a speculative visual identity for a government agency that supports vehicle-dwellers.
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Short Stories from Long Lives (SSLL) encourages people to collect and share stories from older adults. SSLL began as a research project to encourage younger adults to pay attention to older adults—those often neglected—in design and innovation processes.
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