Research+by+design+An+analysis+of+community+engagement

 Patrick Lee Lucas, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro [ pllucas@uncg.edu]
 * Research by design: An analysis of community engagement**

** Keywords: ** Community engagement, assessment, design

 ** Track: ** Program evaluation and assessment

 ** Format: ** Research paper


 * Date & time: **Friday 10:50-12:00
 * Location: **Salon 10

**Summary:** The researcher contextualizes one academic department’s research process and products from a year-long analysis of community engagement. Strategies presented demonstrate how the department’s community engaged scholarship crosses boundaries to advance social change. Based on conceptual frameworks presented within the presentation, the researcher stimulates discussion among session attendees about community engagement as a form of civil discourse increasingly embedded in university-community partnerships. Prompted by the receipt of an award in 2010, the UNCG Department of Interior Architecture adopted community engagement for focused study, noting the need for research to substantiate the impact of engagement on the department as a whole.

Community engagement represents a way of working in top design programs around the country, most typically in architecture, but also in graphic design, industrial design, planning, and other related disciplines outside of interior design. What also characterizes the place of community engagement in design is the shocking lack of tangible research to document and explore the impact of community engagement on the academy. By interpreting the breadth of multidisciplinary scholarship on community engagement and by situating one department’s research endeavors within that scholarship, the researcher advances community engagement research in the provision of a well-grounded research study for purposes of comparative work in future years.

**References:** Bell, B. (2004). //Good Deeds, Good Design//. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press.

Bell, B., & Wakeford, K. (Eds.). (2008). //Expanding Architecture//. New York: Metropolis Books.

Birks, M. (2011). //Grounded Theory//. London, England: Sage.

Day, C. (2003). //Consensus Design.// Oxford, England: Architectural Press.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Sinclair, C. (2006). //Design like you give a damn//: //Architectural responses to humanitarian crisis.// New York, NY: Thames & Hudson.

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