Service Learning
I facilitate opportunities for students to gain professional experience and apply their growing skill sets to real design situations by employing service learning. "Service-Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities."—NSLC
Through service-learning, my students—use what they learn in studio to solve real-life problems. They not only learn the practical applications of their design studies, they become actively contributing design leaders, citizens and community members through the service they perform.
Community Partner: Mid-America Regional Council
Tactile/Tactical Urbanism Design Interventions
Tactile/Tactical Urbanism Design Interventions
My sophomore VISC 204 Designing Understanding class and Bonnie Johnson's UBPL 735 Graduate Urban Planning class collaborated to create three-dimensional design interventions informed by the Creating Sustainable Communities Initiative of the Mid-America Regional Council. Their projects were designed to communicate vibrant, connected & green community places and were exhibited at the Hodos Gallery space in Kansas City on First Fridays. Viewers were able to vote on their favorite installations and meet with students to talk about their proposals.
