Grow Dat wins SEED Award!

The City Center is honored to have one of our projects chosen for a 2012 SEED award.
Congratulations to the students, staff, faculty, collaborators, donors, and all the other folks who have been part of making this project happen!

Below is the press release:

The Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Competition Design Awards honor extraordinary design projects and demonstrate that an emerging field of contributing architecture has reached a critical mass.

Six projects were selected out of forty-five submitted from fourteen countries.
The six SEED Award Winners are:
Nyanza Maternity Hospital, Nyanza, Rwanda
Maria Auxiliadora School, Los Calderones, Peru
Escuela Ecologica Saludable Initiative: Parque Primaria, Lima, Peru
Owe’neh Bupingeh Preservation Plan and Rehabilitation, Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico
Bancroft School Revitalization, Kansas City, Missouri
Grow Dat Farm, New Orleans, Louisiana

Images of the winning design projects can be viewed at https://designcorps.org/sfi/winners/

The winning projects will be shown at the Structures for Inclusion conference at the University of Texas, Austin, Saturday and Sunday, March 24-25. For information: https://designcorps.org/sficonference/

A training session will also take place March 22 and 23:
http://www.publicinterestdesign.com/university-of-texas/

Jurors comments:
The award winners and honorable mentions were outstanding examples of design in the public’s interest from diverse communities across the globe. These projects offer tangible evidence of how design is effectively playing a role in addressing the most critical issues around the globe, not just the environment but directly addressing the biggest social and economic challenges. Each project team carefully identified a community’s needs and priorities, then maximized the use of resources to strategically address these. In the winning, multiple issues were addressed by the design response so that positive impact was maximized.

SEED
Social Economic Environmental Design® provides a common standard to guide, evaluate and measure the social, economic and environmental impact of design projects. SEED maintains the belief that design can play a vital role in the most critical issues that face communities and individuals, in crisis and in every day challenges. To accomplish this, the SEED® process guides professionals to work alongside locals who know their community and its needs. This practice of “trusting the local” is increasingly recognized as a highly effective way to sustain the health and longevity of a place or a community as it develops. See www.seednetwork.org

Sponsored by:
The Surdna Foundation, Deedie and Rusty Rose, The University of Texas, the UT Center for Sustainable Design, Design Corps, The SEED Network