Creative placemaking and equitable community development
Community engagement with courses, videos and podcasts
Explore the building blocks to engage in ethical partnership and collaboration with communities.
Courses
Herberger Institute’s Design and Arts Corps developed courses on community engaged practices in arts and design. These modules are designed with artists and designers in mind, but may be adapted to anyone who has an interest in working in partnership and in community-engaged contexts.
Videos
Podcasts
Addressing social justice in a complex world
The Design School’s guest lecturers Liz Ogbu and Christine Gaspar join Herberger Institute and Watts Professor Maria Rosario Jackson for an episode of the Creativity and Place podcast. Ogbu, a designer, urbanist and social innovator, and Gaspar, the executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, examine how designers can address social justice in a complex world.
Addressing social justice in a complex world
The Design School’s guest lecturers Liz Ogbu and Christine Gaspar join Herberger Institute and Watts Professor Maria Rosario Jackson for an episode of the Creativity and Place podcast. Ogbu, a designer, urbanist and social innovator, and Gaspar, the executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, examine how designers can address social justice in a complex world.
Centering collaborative and consensus based design
What does the most sustainable house on a reservation in the U.S. look like? Institute Professor Wanda Dalla Costa discusses Indigenous Placekeeping and value-based design in architectural practices. Her work in the Indigenous Design Collaborative centers collaborative and consensus based design which includes recovery of root culture, centering resident agency and the social cohesion that comes from building something together.
Creating an ecology that is healthy, vibrant and equitable
Why are we here and who do we work for? This critical question is what centers Jennifer Cole’s work as the director of the National Accelerator for Cultural Innovation at ASU. In this episode of Creativity and Place, explore the role of Local Arts Agencies (LAA) and why it is important to work with communities to create an ecology that is healthy, vibrant and equitable.
Transforming communities together
What happens when artists are invited to contribute to community improvement efforts? AZ Creative Voices is a limited edition podcast series that chronicles the stories of Arizona cities, towns and neighborhoods who worked together in support of community transformation through the arts as part of the Arizona Creative Communities Institute. Producer Regina Revazova takes listeners on a tour of participating communities, highlighting the challenges and successes of this creative partnership; the potential of community-engaged work; and the many discoveries within teams and across the learning cohort as participants strengthened their collaborative skills.
Contact
Do you have resources we should include? Email Sarah.A.McCarty@asu.edu.