Service-Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1613320019 ISBN 13: 9781613320013

Publisher: New Village Press, 2011

Synopsis

This collection of case studies by design educators critically explores the current practice of service-learning in architecture, landscape design, and urban planning, radically revising the standard protocol for university-initiated design and planning projects in the community. The authors' lively examination of real-life community collaborations forms a pedagogical framework for educators, professionals, and students alike, offering guidelines for a generative and inclusive collaborative design process.

About this title

About the Authors

Tom Angotti is Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College, the Graduate Center, and City University of New York, and directed the Hunter College Center for Community Planning & Development. He is adjunct professor at Parsons/The New School and the author of New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, which won the 2009 Davidoff Book Award.

Cheryl Doble is an associate professor in Department of Landscape Architecture and director of the Center for Community Design Research at SUNY ESF.

Paula Horrigan is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University.

From the Back Cover

"An impressive collection on an important topic. Crossing design and planning, this engaging volume brings together a number of different approaches to service-learning--theoretically, by field, and in the scale of the activities in space and time. This makes it useful and important reading for both those starting off in the field of community-based education and old hands interested in critically reflecting on their past practice."
--Ann Forsyth, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

"This collection has its roots in the ideas of education theorists such as Dewey, Bruner, and Freire, all of whom advocate for the importance of experiential learning. The authors individually and collectively advance the idea of service-learning to community participation and social action. Consequently, this book not only challenges conventional thinking about education and practice but also illustrates a variety of successful off-the-shelf approaches. Design and planning educators and practitioners will find it to be a valuable companion in support of identifying directions for the future."
--Henry Sanoff, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, ACSA/Alumni Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University

"An invaluable new resource for faculty engaged in interdisciplinary action research aimed at building more vibrant, sustainable, and just neighborhoods, communities, and regions through inspired physical design."
--Kenneth M. Reardon, Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning, University of Memphis

"The time is ripe for advancing a solid service-learning pedagogy in architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. Over several decades of innovation, experimentation, and trial and error, each of these design disciplines has spawned new and critical theory, linking professional work and social change. The wisdom of the twenty-nine leaders in service-learning within this volume provides a collective leap forward that benefits us all--students, teachers, designers, and the general public."
--Bryan Bell, Founder, Design Corps; author, Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism and Good Deeds Good Design: Community Service through Architecture

Case studies by design educators critically explore the current practice of community-engaged learning in architecture, landscape design, and urban planning, radically revising the standard protocol for university-initiated design/build projects in communities. The lively examination of real-life collaborations charts a new pedagogy for educators, with guidelines for an inclusive and collaborative design process.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Village Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1613320019
• ISBN 13: 9781613320013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305
• Editor: Angotti Tom, Doble Cheryl S, Horrigan Paula