Temporary Urban Spaces: Experimentation Towards Social Change
Design is any process of creative problem solving that employs decision making process. To understand the relationship between design and social justice is to look at what design does, as a tool to effect a specific purpose, while integrating an intention of social justice.
What are the needs of people that are not currently being met and how can something temporary within a city provide a space for solution? In this paper, I describe projects that address homelessness by creating temporary urban solutions, exploiting the leverage point of time. Through Right 2 Dream Too, Parklets, and Camps, we see the potential of temporary spaces in demonstrating a concept. A latent need, addressed through a temporary solution, has the potential to shift opinion, understanding and attitudes.
“Citizenry” is designed to foster deeper conversation about the role of the individual in their environment.
Functional Objects
A wearable pack of salvaged cardboard tubes that provides portable protection between a body and the ground. As a DIY hack, the object functions as ground cover and thermal barrier between cold pavement and someone sleeping in the ur
Playing card deck
The object of the game around the acquisition of Assets and Skills, towards fulfilling needs of Challenges, and given space on the Board. “Challenges” represent temporary or community-driven uses of the public spaces for increased civ
Installed at Vigor Industrial.
Functional Objects
A guerrilla public seat crafted for personal use was intended to demonstrate agency within public space and to show unexpected uses for readily-available, common materials. This seat can be attached anywhere three supports are availa
Functional Objects
A guerrilla public seat crafted for personal use was intended to demonstrate agency within public space and to show unexpected uses for readily-available, common materials. This seat can be attached anywhere three supports are availa
Installed at Vigor Industrial.
Installed at Vigor Industrial.
Citizenry: The Game is an approachable medium that facilitates active engagement and questioning. Citizenry is an open-ended framework that allows for a variety of types of play. The initial setup for Citizenry: The Game involves a 5×5 grid as a foundatio
The equality of a city demands that we are able to take active roles in making it be as we need.
Citizenry: The Game is an approachable medium that facilitates active engagement and questioning. Citizenry is an open-ended framework that allows for a va
The built environments represented are grounded in my current home of Portland, Oregon. This location has also informed the aspirational challenges to meet in the game.
Five typologies are represented in the piece of the game. A “skyscraper”, towering ov
The built environments represented are grounded in my current home of Portland, Oregon. This location has also informed the aspirational challenges to meet in the game.
Five typologies are represented in the piece of the game. A “skyscraper”, towering ov
Installed at Vigor Industrial.
Citizenry: The Game is an approachable medium that facilitates active engagement and questioning. Citizenry is an open-ended framework that allows for a variety of types of play. The initial setup for Citizenry: The Game involves a 5×5 grid as a foundatio
The built environments represented are grounded in my current home of Portland, Oregon. This location has also informed the aspirational challenges to meet in the game.
Five typologies are represented in the piece of the game. A “skyscraper”, towering ov
Functional Objects
A wearable pack of salvaged cardboard tubes that provides portable protection between a body and the ground. As a DIY hack, the object functions as ground cover and thermal barrier between cold pavement and someone sleeping in the ur
Functional Objects
A wearable pack of salvaged cardboard tubes that provides portable protection between a body and the ground. As a DIY hack, the object functions as ground cover and thermal barrier between cold pavement and someone sleeping in the ur
Experiments In Public Space
A project to understand how objects inserted into the public realm would generate responses. This was mostly a sociological study, seeking to understand the role time, volume and location would have on a person’s reaction to
Installed at Vigor Industrial.
Installed at Vigor Industrial.
The equality of a city demands that we are able to take active roles in making it be as we need.
Citizenry: The Game is an approachable medium that facilitates active engagement and questioning. Citizenry is an open-ended framework that allows for a va
Functional Objects
A guerrilla public seat crafted for personal use was intended to demonstrate agency within public space and to show unexpected uses for readily-available, common materials. This seat can be attached anywhere three supports are availa
Experiments In Public Space
A project to understand how objects inserted into the public realm would generate responses. This was mostly a sociological study, seeking to understand the role time, volume and location would have on a person’s reaction to
My practice of design lies in the intersection of the built environment, social justice, and work in homelessness.
Installed at Vigor Industrial.
Experiments In Public Space
A project to understand how objects inserted into the public realm would generate responses. This was mostly a sociological study, seeking to understand the role time, volume and location would have on a person’s reaction to
