Design Corps, the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network, designbbuildXchange, and Live Projects Network in collaboration with the Center for Public Interest Design, are pleased to announce the 2017 Awards winners to recognize excellence in public interest design. Two winners were selected from each of the three networks to represent their public interest design principles […]
This call seeks projects that evince the strategies and philosophies of public interest design pedagogy. Submitted projects will be double blind peer reviewed for inclusion in the book, Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies, edited by Lisa M. Abendroth and Bryan Bell and under contract with Routledge, an imprint […]
Design Corps and Social Economic Environmental Design® (SEED) Network are pleased to announce the release of the SEED Evaluator 4.0. The announcement was made by Bryan Bell, Co-founder of SEED, at the Harvard University Igniting Innovation Summit held on Saturday, November 14, 2015. NEW FOR SEED 4.0 •New website design with improvements made on user-based feedback •Guaranteed […]
METROPOLIS: They call it their rallying cry: architects design just 2 percent of American homes, a figure that logs five mentions in the new advocacy treatise Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism (Metropolis Books). Its inverse, “Designing for the 98% Without Architects,” was the title of Design Corps’ 2000 conference and serves as a working motto […]
ARCHITECT: The AIA’s 2011 Latrobe Prize has been awarded to a team investigating “Public Interest Practice in Architecture.” The $100,000 grant goes to Bryan Bell, executive director of Design Corps; Roberta Feldman, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Sergio Palleroni, senior fellow for the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University; and David Perkes, […]