The graduate certificate in Community-Engaged Design and Social Practice provides graduate students, alumni, and professionals with theoretical grounding in principles of spatial justice and effective skills to facilitate the integration of community voices into design processes. Students will discuss the pros and cons of community-driven design proposals and their implications for enhancing spatial democracy. Students will explore and apply various techniques to empower people's participation in decision-making and design. These techniques include strategies to integrate different stakeholders such as community members, public agencies, and the private sector. Students gain fluency with analog and digital interfaces to maximize citizen participation.
The Certificate in Community-Engaged Design and Social Practice can be applied to a wide range of design disciplines and approaches, including urban planning and design, adaptive reuse of existing building structures, and introducing emerging technologies into the built environment.