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2015 Design Build Intensive: MFA in Applied Craft + Design
The MFA in Applied Craft + Design degree program (AC+D) in Portland, OR (a joint program of Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art) begins each year with a 10 day pre-semester, collaborative Design Build Intensive project intended to help students get to know each other and learn how to work together by designing and building a project for an actual client who will benefit from the students' skills.
This year's collaborator is Outgrowing Hunger whose mission is "to get healthy food into the mouths of Hungry People". The organization "transforms unused private, public and institutional land into Neighborhood Gardens, where healthy food, resilient community, and economic opportunity spring up together". For this Design Build Intensive the AC+D students will focus on the East Portland Neighborhood Garden (EPNG), which provides personal gardening and fresh produce work-trade opportunities.
The East Portland Neighborhood Garden has plots that range from 360 – 1550 square feet, tended primarily by 115 Bhutanese, Burmese refugee and Latino immigrant families who literally live off of the garden's harvest. Many must commute up to two miles on foot to get to the garden, after which they often work 6 – 8 hours a day tending, harvesting and preparing traditional fermented vegetables. The entire site is almost 100% garden space with little area for rest and relief, not to mention protection from the rain and sun.
There is so much AC+D can do for EPNG!
The magic of the AC+D Design Build Intensive is the conversation and connection that happens between two communities who normally would not have come together. EPNG and ACD will meet to collaboratively discover the true needs of the community. It is clear already that there is much that can be improved. The design process will not begin until the students meet with the gardeners, but to give a sense of the potential scope the project could include: benches with shaded cover for tired gardeners and nursing mothers; raised beds with ADA accessibility for the Senior Gardens; a protective shed to secure the five wheelbarrows; a privacy shield for the portable restroom; a removable cover for the outdoor kitchen used to prepare the harvests for community and fundraising events, and the list goes on…
AC+D DESIGN BUILD: MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH MAKING
Designers in education and industry fields routinely and assuredly assert that design thinking strategies can deliver the “game-changing” ideas needed to address the critical and complex problems of our times. Frequently, however, it seems we’re seduced by and fall in love with the promise(s) of these ideas, and are less committed to following through with their actual realization with the same degree of passion. The AC+D Design Build Intensive is an effort to provide a ‘proof of the pudding is in the eating’ model of design education and practice of the first year MFA AC+D students working together designing and building a project for an actual client.
Emphasizing a philosophy of civic engagement, The AC+D Design Build Intensives are selected based on their potential to benefit an organization or population that generally does not have access to the services of designers, builders and makers. These projects put design thinking into action and solve local community problems.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
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Build Better Products: A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products, Klein, Laura, 2016. New York: Rosenfeld Media rosenfeldmedia.com/books/build-better-products/
Production build record for Morgan Aero Supersports #53. Ours. Sadly, we arrived the day before they were to start work on it, but we got to see the build record.
‘Night of Hope’ showcases Catholic school students, builds support
Photo courtesy of Diocese of Phoenix Catholic Schools Office
The gift of Catholic education is a dream for many parents. The annual Night of Hope helps make that dream a reality, and it does it with a subtle blend of faith and flair by building support for the nearly 14,000 students who attend Catholic schools in the Diocese of Phoenix.
More than 600 guests packed into Founders Hall at Xavier College Preparatory Nov. 5 for the ninth annual dinner. From the array of plaid tablecloths — one representing each Catholic school uniform in the diocese, courtesy of The Dennis Company — to the tasteful centerpieces that featured non-perishable food items destined for the St. Vincent de Paul Society, to the heartfelt testimonies of students who acted as masters of ceremony, the gala was a showcase of Catholic faith in action.
More: www.catholicsun.org/2016/11/18/night-of-hope-2016/
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On May 21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh changed the course of history by becoming the first to fly an aircraft non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean in his Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh made the trip in 33 hours and 30 minutes and altered the way the world perceived aviation. He became an instant international hero and to this day is considered to be one of the most significant figures in aviation history.
The Ryan NYP (New York to Paris) was built in just sixty days by the Ryan Airline Company specifically to make the transatlantic crossing. It was a modification of an existing design that the company had produced called the Ryan M-2. The $25,000 Orteig prize was offered to the first aviator to successfully make the trip across the Atlantic non-stop. Several attempts were made, and many lives were lost.
Fajitas, (a Tex-Mex idiom from the turn of the last century,) are just tacos in a flour tortilla. Borderlands vaqueros were often partially paid in cheap cuts of beef, (including the head,) which were creatively used in delicious ways.
No fancy spices or ingredients, (as used today,) augmented the simple fare. I like the skirt steaks marinated in lime juice, vinegar, oil, and a bit of salt, pepper, cumin, and whatever else, (for a day or so.)
With a quick sear on the onions, peppers, and meat a delicious batch of good stuff is available. The contemporary offering is usually wrapped in flour tortillas. Corn tortillas are just as good. These are really just soft tacos with a Tex-Mex moniker.