30. The CDRC, Design as a Strategy for Change

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14-06-2021 • 40 mins

Maria Noguera and Pooja Desai interview the head of the Community Design Research Center, Susan Rogers. Throughout her work in the community she has discovered four foundations of being a community-driven designer: show up, know you don’t have all the answers, learn everything you can about a place, and most importantly listen to the community's own vision for their home. (https://www.cdrchouston.org/)

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Susan's Reading Recommendations
Thomas Fisher: Public-Interest Architecture: A Needed and Inevitable Change  (https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/files/579606/download?download_frd=1)
The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas by Peter Cook a founder of Archigram

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