ARH 712 Participatory Design

Participatory Design is key to creating equity. Working with residents and community, you will develop tools for collaborative decision-making that address the needs of diverse users by putting your communication techniques, design skills, and research methodologies into practice in a real-life project. (This course is cross-listed with ARH 512.)

Prerequisite: Department Director approval

Software: Rhino, Adobe Creative Cloud

Course Learning Outcomes

Develop skills to deep listening and for co-creating with community members
Apply field research methods to document patterns of human behavior and identify unmet programmatic needs
Create interactive design and communication tools for community members to share their lived experience
Incorporate awareness of power imbalance in evaluating design proposals
Exhibit professionalism and accountability during service project events

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B.lab Community-Based Design

This course is part of the B.lab community-based design program at the School of Architecture. You will collaborate with classmates to create a design proposal for neighbors, kids, local non-profits. Since 2018, students have designed and built multiple award-winning projects throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Please visit B.lab Community Design webpage