UMASS Design Studio Collaboration

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In this third meeting with Erika Zekos' UMASS Architecture Students, we’ll get an early (in-process) look at the plans students have been working on for both large and small scale projects.

See what they are dreaming up for us at:

• The Munson Library,

• South East Street School,

• Wildwood School,

• Hickory Ridge, and

• Northampton Rowing

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The primary goals of this partnership are to engage Everyday Wellbeing and UMass Architecture student participants in collaborative design opportunities that benefit the mission of Everyday Wellbeing and provide hands-on design engagement experiences for architecture students and Everyday Wellbeing participants. These opportunities will focus on the topic of architecture and design, but will also offer occasions for valuable interpersonal experiences, relationship building, and mentorship.

UMass Architecture participants will:

• Implement a Human Centered Design approach to the co-creation of design projects.

• Learn perspective-taking by working in a process of co-creation with client/partners whose backgrounds, beliefs, values, and experiences may differ from our own.

• Examine their own perspectives, underlying biases and assumptions.

• Continue to develop design communication abilities through effective and integrated visual, digital, verbal and writing skills—with a particular focus on communicating with the public / non-practitioners.

• Articulate the value of their own participatory experience working with a community organization.

Everyday Wellbeing participants will:

• Learn about the value and methods of architecture and design.

• Have opportunities to communicate about their own architectural design ideas.

• Contribute meaningfully to a design that will benefit the organization.

• Engage in teamwork and collaboration.

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