51-766 Designing with Community

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course will utilize social innovation principles and practices while striving to bring sustainable solutions to a grassroots community space through a series of integrated strategies. The initiative strives to build new types of services and social enterprises by addressing the unmet basic needs of residents. We aim to do that by focusing on the intersection of food, community health, and education. Students will examine Social Design case studies, with a focus on Problem Reframing processes Dorst, and Solution Amplification Manzini, and various designenabled Theories of Change. For the project students will move the vision for Latham St. Commons forward through social experimentation and listening to the needs of an array of people within the neighborhoods of Garfield and Friendship. This type of active participation with the community will help students see the challenges of the community from an insiders point of view, in order for them to design appropriate responses to some of those challenges.

Prerequisites: none listed

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