As community design moves into the mainstream, I’ve been spending a lot of time considering how design’s pretentiousness tends to keep people ,who could use design to more effectively navigate and ...

Participatory visual methods harness visual media to engage communities directly in research processes, enabling participants to articulate their experiences, priorities and solutions through images.

This student and faculty-facing guidebook is the product of 10 years of community-engaged research and practice and 2 years of co-design coordination on behalf of the School of Design. Created in ...

Rory A. Cooper is the founding director of the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a joint center of the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He is a VA ...

This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

Participatory design is a democratic process that aims to offer equal input for all stakeholders, with a particular focus on the users, not usually involved directly in the traditional method of ...

Students from a variety of disciplines combine coursework, practical experiences, independent research projects and guided reflection to develop essential skills for addressing complex local, national ...

Just days after a gunman turned Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School into a frantic crime scene in February 2018, student survivors from the Florida school organized a youth movement for stricter gun ...