Community-Engaged Interior Design: An Illustrated Guide - Softcover

Hicks, Travis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032431946 ISBN 13: 9781032431949

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This step-by-step guide takes the reader through each stage of the design process, from concept to completion, exploring practical methods of how to engage the community throughout interior architecture and design projects.

This book argues that all design should be accomplished through a process of engagement, be it with community members, clients, or end users. The community-engaged designer welcomes participatory processes, mutually beneficial collaboration, and equitable inclusion in order to meet the needs and wants of diverse groups of people. Chapters cover the initial engagement of communities, marketing, and pre-design phases, translating research into a design scheme in development with the community, communicating designs, engaging community-based makers, craftspeople, product manufacturers, vendors, and distributors, constructing designs, and evaluating the end result. Finally, case studies of successful community-engaged design projects are presented and analyzed to demonstrate this approach in action. Learning objectives, chapter summaries, and exercises help to ease understanding and build design thinking and technical skills, equipping the reader with the tools to succeed as a community-engaged designer.

Hicks distills years of experience teaching community-engaged design within this volume, which will be a valuable resource for all interior architecture and design students and practitioners.

About this title

About the Author

Travis Lee Hicks is Professor of Interior Architecture at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and founding Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Design. His research interests include community engagement, design process, sustainability, and interior architecture's role in contemporary practice. Hicks received a B.S. in Architecture, summa cum laude, from Georgia Tech and a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032431946
• ISBN 13: 9781032431949
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216