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Depave Chicago is a community depaving program that replaces underutilized parking lots and paved spaces with gardens, pocket forests, and other nature-based designs.
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Deana McDonagh, the chair of Graphic Design in the School of Art & Design and a Beckman Institute researcher, co-directs the (dis)Ability Design Studio, “a brainstorming environment, a bridge that connects medicine and the STEM fields with the disability and design communities.”
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Professor Ben Grosser with the School of Art and Design was recently named an Assembly Fellow for the Berkman Klein Center’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) at Harvard University.
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As more communities adopt creative placemaking strategies, urban planners are reimagining how to collect, interpret, and share data to help transform communities.
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Redman’s research can help design performance spaces by considering the acoustic preferences of singers in addition to the audience.
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“Collaborating in conceptual Spaces: How Data Visualization Facilitated by Javascript Can Improve Interdisciplinary Design Project” was published in Dialectic.
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