Ever wanted to complete a community or civic based project with your students that leaves a lasting impact? Interested in opening a dialog between your school and the surrounding community? Do you want to improve how you execute community based projects? This session will build upon a variety of case studies, principles, and practices. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of how to: identify the appropriate community based opportunities, create projects and build partnerships, work with available tools/resources, and use design to bring the project to life.

1. COMMUNITY PROJECTS:
A FRAMEWORK TO
BUILD IMPACT

2. DESCRIPTION
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Ever wanted to complete a community or civic based
project with your students that leaves a lasting impact?
Interested in opening a dialog between your school and
the surrounding community? Do you want to improve
how you execute community based projects?
!
This session will build upon a variety of case studies,
principles, and practices. Attendees will walk away with
an understanding of how to: identify the appropriate
community based opportunities, create projects and
build partnerships, work with available tools/resources,
and use design to bring the project to life.

3. OBJECTIVES
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1. FRAME
We will frame the approach to community based project
learning opportunities by sharing case studies and
approaches that will help attendees identify how to
complete similar projects.
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2. BUILD
Attendees will build a framework for a potential project
while identifying the partners, resources, and tools in order.
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3. SHARE
Each attendee will share their approach with a group,
collect feedback and then refine their individual
frameworks. This framework can be used for future projects
by the attendees.

4. BBQ FLINT
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Empowering Flint residents to build a framework to
share knowledge, tips, and ideas on what makes a
strong community.

5. BBQ FLINT
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6. PIELAB
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Pie + Ideas = Conversation.
Conversation + Design = Social Change.

7. PIELAB
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8. PROTOTYPE DESIGN CAMP: DALLAS
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High school students worked with architects and
designers to build a social space in a community garden.

9. PROTOTYPE DALLAS
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10. YOUTH. DESIGN. HACK.
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Working the Boys and Girls Club in San Francisco, a
number of local high school students came together to
build safe pop for play with a neighborhood.
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11. YOUTH. DESIGN. HACK.
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12. CONTACT INFO
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David Bill
david@notosh.com
@dsbill4
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Marc O’Brien
guts@confidence.is
@think5577