Community-Engaged Interior Design: An Illustrated Guide

This step-by-step guide explores practical methods of engaging the community throughout interior architecture and design projects, emphasizing the importance of participatory processes, collaboration, and equitable inclusion to meet the needs and wants of diverse groups of people. It covers the initial engagement of communities, marketing, pre-design phases, translating research into a design scheme, communicating designs, engaging community-based makers, craftspeople, product manufacturers, vendors, and distributors, constructing designs, and evaluating the end result. Case studies of successful community-engaged design projects are presented and analyzed to demonstrate this approach in action.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 20 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive guide takes readers through every stage of the design process, from concept to completion, exploring practical methods for engaging communities throughout interior architecture and design projects. The book emphasizes that all design should be approached through an engagement process, whether it involves community members, clients, or end users. The community-engaged designer embraces participatory processes, mutually beneficial collaboration, and equitable inclusion to meet the diverse needs and desires of different groups of people.

Chapters cover the initial engagement of communities, marketing, and pre-design phases, translating research into a design scheme in development with the community. They also discuss communicating designs, engaging community-based makers, craftspeople, product manufacturers, vendors, and distributors, constructing designs, and evaluating the end result.

Finally, case studies of successful community-engaged design projects are presented and analyzed to demonstrate this approach in action. Learning objectives, chapter summaries, and exercises help readers understand and build design thinking and technical skills, equipping them with the tools to succeed as community-engaged designers.

Written by a seasoned educator with years of experience teaching community-engaged design, this volume is a valuable resource for interior architecture and design students and practitioners alike. It provides a deep understanding of the principles and practices of community-engaged design, enabling readers to create meaningful and impactful designs that benefit communities and society as a whole.

Dimension: 280 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032431949