UMASS Design Studio Collaboration
Wed, Mar 25
|Munson Memorial Library
This is the second of two community meetings with Erika Zekos' UMASS Architecture Students. Please join us for an exploration of community-centered design to share what we might want and need in an imagined future home for Everyday Wellbeing.
Time & Location
Mar 25, 2026, 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM
Munson Memorial Library, 1046 S East St, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
About the event
This meeting will provide time to zoom in on what we might need and want in an imagined future home.
We will talk about different kinds and sizes of spaces.
With that in formation in hand, students will start working on designs for a possible future home by dividing into groups to think about that home on each of 5 sites:
The Munson Library,
South East Street School,
Wildwood School,
Hickory Ridge, and
Northampton Rowing
Students have already been background work to understand the physical landscape and conditions for each of these locations.
Please register to participate by clicking the RSVP Button below.
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.
Please register to participate by clicking the RSVP Button.