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Mapping connections: Investigating experience in Community Design Education
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SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: This IDG proposal is for a study of Community Design Education (CDE). Also known as Design/Build or Live projects Education, in CDE, educators and students work with local clients to design and construct community centres, urban gardens, park benches, and other items. University programs of CDE are usually popular with students and members of nonprofit organizations, with hundreds of CDE courses—particularly in architecture now taught around the globe. However, despite CDE’s important contributions to the built and social environments, CDE’s complex activities have not been thoroughly studied. This project begins to address this gap by investigating, outlining, and developing ways to map the practices of CDE in architecture. To carry out our exploration of CDE, the team will collect data of the experiences of CDE educators who teach in established programs that follow community centred, public interest approaches. Through interviews, workshops, visits to sites, and analyses of documents and photos we will build a comprehensive understanding of the ways that CDE engages with wider contexts. Along with directing attention to the actions of our research subjects, we will also engage with the questions, methods, and interpretive tools of wider scholarship. Through our awareness of both the processes of CDE and selected social theories we will develop findings that are relevant to the participants of CDE and to those who reflect on the socio material locational contexts through which CDE is practiced.
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- 2023-02-02
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- Insight Development Grant
- SSHRC
- IDG
- Community Design Education
- Design-Build Education
- Public Interest Design
- Live Projects Education
- Practice Studies
- Architectural Education
- Design Studies
- Experiential Teaching & Learning
- Education for Community Development
- Science and Technology Studies
- Human Ecology
- Urban and Regional Studies
- 2008-2025
- International
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- Research Material
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- ©️Oak, Arlene. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2027.