The impotent toolkit : challenges and limitations of co-design for societal value in Southeast Louisiana's landscapes of African American dispossession

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dc.contributor.advisorLee, Gloriaen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTang, Eric, 1974-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLewis, Randolphen
dc.creatorMcDowell, Robin Boeunen
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-06T18:26:28Zen
dc.date.available2015-11-06T18:26:28Zen
dc.date.issued2015-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2015en
dc.date.updated2015-11-06T18:26:28Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThis report details a reflexive practice that lies in the emerging field of co-design for societal value. This territory marks a move from user participation to equal empowerment of stakeholders--that is, designers, users, and other project constituents defining objectives and working through design processes together via a shared vision for more just and sustainable ways of living. The body of design work examined in this report is a combination of traditional products of graphic design, participatory design methods, and ethnography. Initiated around a physically demolished and institutionally repressed history of enslaved Africans in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, the value of this work is not found in formal qualities of designed objects or in a groundbreaking process model, but in detailed documentation of consistent reflection on the role of the designer as outsider. This broadened analysis offers an expansion of the repertoire of co-design case studies.en
dc.description.departmentDesignen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2JC97en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/32282en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectParticipatory designen
dc.subjectCo-designen
dc.subjectActivismen
dc.subjectSocial designen
dc.subjectSocial valueen
dc.subjectGraphic designen
dc.subjectDesign methodsen
dc.subjectCommunity organizingen
dc.subjectSoutheast Louisianaen
dc.subjectNew Orleansen
dc.subjectFlood controlen
dc.subjectMississippi deltaen
dc.subjectMississippi Riveren
dc.subjectAfrican diasporaen
dc.subjectAfrican Americansen
dc.subjectSlavesen
dc.subjectSlaveryen
dc.subjectPlantationen
dc.subjectCemeteriesen
dc.subjectBurialen
dc.subjectAntebellumen
dc.subjectRacismen
dc.subjectNational historic registeren
dc.subjectVernacular architectureen
dc.subjectBlack studiesen
dc.subjectReflexive designen
dc.titleThe impotent toolkit : challenges and limitations of co-design for societal value in Southeast Louisiana's landscapes of African American dispossessionen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentDesignen
thesis.degree.disciplineDesignen
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Artsen

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