TCC at Structures For Inclusion

Recently Emilie Taylor presented a few recent TCC food justice projects at the national Structures for Inclusion conference in Washington DC. The presentation covered 3 projects involving urban farms and fresh food access.
Also presenting at the conference was former TCCer and current Rose Fellow, Seth Welty (pictured right of the washington monument).

Structures for Inclusion 10 was a tenth anniversary celebration hosted by Howard University on Saturday and Sunday, March 27 and 28, 2010. The panels discussed the theme: “Social Economic Environmental Design: SEED” and how to build on the success of the Green design movement in addressing critical social and economic issues through design.

SFI 10 aimed to bring together and share the best ideas and practices that are reaching those currently un-served by architecture. These are diverse and disparate efforts, but four threads have consistently run through presentations:

1) Serving underserved populations thorough innovative design
2) Defining or finding value in architecture and thoughtful design
3) Redefining models of practice whereby the architect assumes new roles throughout the process and/or project (architect as developer, community organizer, etc.)
4) Involving the community (end-user) in the process of design.

SFI 10 doesn’t claim to answer all of these difficult questions once. Instead, inspiring projects will provide a forum for discussion of these questions and to teach designers skills that will allow them to forge their own answers.

For more information on SFI or SEED visit: DeisgnCorps