Design for Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design for Community write by Derek Powazek. This book was released on 2006-10-11. Design for Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is available as an Adobe Reader eBook on the publisher's website: newriders.com Communities are part of all successful web sites in one way or another. It looks at the different stages that must be understood: Philosophy: Why does your site need community? What are your measures of success? Architecture: How do you set up a site to createpositive experience? How do you coax people out of their shells and get them to share their experiences online? Design: From color choice to HTML, how do you design the look of a community area? Maintenance: This section will contain stories of failed web communities, and what they could have done to stay on track, as well as general maintenance tips and tricks for keeping your community “garden” growing.
Design Justice
Design Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design Justice write by Sasha Costanza-Chock. This book was released on 2020-03-03. Design Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? “Design justice” is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities. It has emerged from a growing community of designers in various fields who work closely with social movements and community-based organizations around the world. This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people—specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism)—and invites readers to “build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability.” Along the way, the book documents a multitude of real-world community-led design practices, each grounded in a particular social movement. Design Justice goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.
Village Homes
Village Homes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Village Homes write by Mark Francis. This book was released on 2003-09. Village Homes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Village Homes neighborhood in Davis, California is one of the few long-standing examples of sustainable community design. Mark Francis has been studying Village Homes for more than two decades and brings together existing research and writing on the community, studies about the children of Village Homes he conducted throughout the 1980s, and interviews with many parties involved with the project including designers, residents, gardeners, and maintenance people. Mark Francis takes a critical look at Village Homes, addressing its failures as well as its successes, and examines the question of why, despite its success, this development has not been replicated.
Good Deeds, Good Design
Good Deeds, Good Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Good Deeds, Good Design write by Bryan Bell. This book was released on 2004. Good Deeds, Good Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores new thoughts and practices in the movement toward an architecture that serves everyone, including the poor.
Design as Democracy
Design as Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design as Democracy write by David de la Pena. This book was released on 2017-12-07. Design as Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table with designers to collectively create vibrant, important places in cities and neighborhoods. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, it offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.
