1. Insightful Questions + Responses2. Recitation and Review3. A Timeline for Design Activism

10.1: HOW CAN DESIGNERS BE ADVOCATES?

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.

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

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)

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.

WEAVING DESIGN + ACTIVISM

ENVIRONMENTEQUITYHOUSINGHUMANITARIANPOLITICSPUBLICATIONS

1930-1940

Albert Speer- Role of Classicism in Nazism

1950-1960

1950-1960

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

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.”

“We wanted to be the conscience of the profession… that’s probably exaggerated, but we wanted to raise those issues.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

30 PARTNERS20 COURSES200 STUDENTS

36,000 HOURS

WEAVING DESIGN + ACTIVISM

ENVIRONMENTEQUITYHOUSINGHUMANITARIANPOLITICS + POLICYPUBLICATIONS

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.

Exercise + Questions