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Design and Empowerment: Learning from Community Organizing

Ford, Ramsey A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242854164

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2009, MDes, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Design.
Should designers move past creating ‘tools which empower' impoverished communities to ‘empowering impoverished communities' to make tools? As designers have begun to work on the complex problems associated with global poverty they have slowly documented methods and identified best practices for creating social impact through design. One such practice is to increase the capacity of impoverished communities to solve problems. However, little has been written on how to accomplish this task. This thesis looks to community organizers for insight on community empowerment. It analyzes and compares design and community organizing in order to identify compatible and complimentary aspects of each profession. This comparison is used to suggest benefits each profession would realize from working with the other. The thesis culminates in the presentation of a novel approach for creating social impact through design and community organizing that moves beyond collaboration and into hybridization.
Mike Zender (Committee Chair)
M. Ann Welsh, PhD (Committee Member)
Craig Vogel (Committee Member)
80 p.
Design; Social Work; Urban Planning
design; design for social impact; social design; design and community empowerment; design and economic development; poverty and design

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  • Ford, R. A. (2009). Design and Empowerment: Learning from Community Organizing [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242854164

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ford, Ramsey. Design and Empowerment: Learning from Community Organizing. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242854164.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ford, Ramsey. "Design and Empowerment: Learning from Community Organizing." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242854164

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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