Public Interest Design 100

PROMOTERS MAKERS POLICYMAKERS PUBLIC-INTEREST DESIGN VISUALIZERS AMBASSADORS 100 CONNECTORS EDUCATORS ORGANIZERS FUNDERS FACILITATORS The growing public interest design field is fueled by a wide range of leaders, a significant number of which, surprisingly, are not trained designers. They are architects and designers, yes, but they are also funders, curators, communicators, and connectors. This inaugural "Public Interest Design 100" list seeks to honor many of the diverse, passionate people at this intersection of design and service. It is a collective portrait of the future of a groundbreaking movement. Together, they are re-imagining the world. Where Are They? NY 5,12,13,14,17,19,23,24,27, 34,36,37,42,43,48,50,52, 53,54,55,57,60,61,62,64, 65,72,3,84,85,88,92,94 12,20,30,31. 35,38,44, 58,86 MN 32,67 141,77 PA 39,63 49,66,68, 81,89,91 100 VA 99 8,96 CA 1,3,6,7,15,18, 21.22.25.26,33, 40,47,51,56, 59.69.70,74,75, 76,80,90,98 4,28 TX 11,97 LA 16,78,93 1-4 5-9 10-15 15+ Demographics Type 150 21% University-based People Profiled 30% Nonprofit 30% For-profit 53% 19% Other (foundation, government, media) Women Fосиs 32% Local 16% 38% International People of Color -29% National Approach 45% Related O41% Place Process Related 14% Product Related Tist of 100 PROMOTERS MAKERS VISUALIZERS CONNECTORS ORGANIZERS FACILITATORS FUNDERS EDUCATORS AMBASSADORS POLICYMAKERS Mariana Amatullo is co-founder and director of Designmatters, a college-wide, interdisciplinary, global design service initiative of the Art Center College of Design. www.designmattersatartcenter.org Sara Cantor Aye and George Aye are co-founders of Greater Good Studio in Chicago, employing what they call a "context-centered design" approach to projects such as their crowd-sourced transit app for Chicago. www.greatergoodstudio.com David Baker is principal of David Baker + Partners Architects, and a foremost designer of affordable housing, most recently with Amit Price Patel the Richardson Apartments in San Francisco for formerly homeless people. www.dbarchitect.com Elena Bartell and Andrew Freer, who live and teach fulltime in Newbern, Ala., lead Auburn University's Rural Studio design/build program, while David Hinson is founder of Auburn's DESIGNHabitat program. www.cadc.auburn.edu Jake Barton is founding principal of Local Projects, an interactive design agency responsible for the Give a Minute and Change by Us online platforms, among many other public projects. www.localprojects.net Yves Behar is principal of fuseproject, a leading industrial design firm behind products such as One Laptop Per Child, the See Better to Learn Better eyeglasses. and numerous others. www.fuseproject.com John Bela, Blaine Merker, and Matthew Passmore are Bryan Bell is founder and executive director of Design Corps and champion of several other initiatives, chief among them the Structures for Inclusion conference series as well as the Social/Economic/Environmental Design (SEED) Network. www.designcorps.org co-founders of Rebar Group, focused on social interaction within public spaces, as well as creators of the global phenomenon that is Parkling) Day. www.rebargroup.org John Bielenberg is founder of Project M Lab, an intensive immersion program meant to inspire designers, writers, filmmakers, and photographers to use their work for impacting communities. www.projectmlab.com Jamie Blosser and Tomasita Duran are the principal architect and client of the Owe'neh Bupingeh Pueblo work, subject of the first "SEEDoc" film. www.seedocs.org Brent Brown is founder and executive director of buildingcommunityWORKSHOP, a Dallas-based nonprofit community design center best known for its Congo Street revitalization work. www.bcworkshop.org Amanda Burden, Janette Sadik-Khan, and David Burney are but three New York City department heads that have worked under Mayor Michael Bloomberg to create an array of public spaces throughout the city. www.nyc.gov Megan Canning. Susan Chin, and Andrea Woodward are the deputy Majora Carter is president of The Majora Carter Group and one of the foremost voices for 14 director, director, and founder of the Design Trust for Public Space in New York, a model for other cities. www.designtrust.org the link between the built environment and social equity. www.majoracartergroup.com Valerie Casey is founder and executive director of The Designers Accord, a global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders committed to positive environmental and social impact. www.designersaccord.org Candy Chang, with a goal of "making cities more emotional," combines street art with urban planning and activism as co-founder of initiatives such as Civic Center and Neighborland. www.candychang.com Amy Chapman and Ric Grefe are the creative minds behind AIGA's Design for Good program, launched to aid and amplify the pro bono efforts its members and chapters across the country. www.aiga.org 17 18 Jane Chen is CEO of healthcare technology venture Embrace Innovations, which manufacturers a low-cost infant warmer called Embrace Nest, as well as co-founder of its nonprofit advocacy counterpart, Embrace Global. www.embraceinnovations.com President Bill Clinton is founder of the Clinton Global Initiative, which in 2012 made Designing for Impact the focus of the CGI Annual Meeting, exploring "designing for individuals, designing our environments, and designing our systems." www.clintonglobalinitiative.org Carol Coletta is founding director of a funding consortium, called ArtPlace America, which unites 20 the resources of foundations, federal agencies, and banks to fuel creative placemaking projects across the U.S. www.artplaceamerica.org 22 Stuart Coulson and James Patell are co-instructors of the Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability course within the Stanford d.school, focused on people living on less than $4 a day. extreme.stanford.edu Teddy Cruz is co-director of the Center for Urban Ecologies at the University of California, San Diego, and principal of Estudio Teddy Cruz, for many years focused on the U.S./Mexico border town of Tijuana. www.estudioteddycruz.com John Czarnecki and John Rouse are the editor and publisher of Contract Magazine, which has recognized several public interest design leaders via its Designer of the Year Award and through its Inspirations Awards program with Tandus Flooring. www.contractdesign.com Joshua David and Robert Hammond are co-founders of Friends of the High Line, having transformed the once-abandoned elevated railway in Manhattan into a breathtaking public park. www.thehighline.org Nicholas at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of Local Codes, identifying and assessing underutilized urban spaces. nicholas.demonchaux.com Monchaux is a professor Krista Donaldson is the CEO of D-Rev: Design Revolution, a nonprofit technology incubator whose mission is to improve the health and incomes of people living on less than $4 per day. www.d-rev.org 26 Kimberly Dowdell is founder of NOMAtters, the annual service project of the National Organization of Minority Architects, and principal co-founder of the Social/Economic/ Environmental Design ISEED) Network, having coined the phrase. www.seednetwork.org Pam Dorr is executive director of Hale Empowerment & Revitalization Organization (HERO) and a leading catalyst for community development in areas of the Alabama Black Belt working to end rural poverty. www.herohousing.org 28 William Drenttel is co-founder 30 and editor of Design Observer, a highly-trafficked website covering design, social innovation, urbanism, and visual culture. Roberta Feldman and Sharon Haar, both professors at the University of Illinois at Chicago, are two of the leading researchers on community design. www.uic.edu www.designobserver.com Sunny Fischer is executive director of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, a Thomas Fisher is dean of the University of Minnesota College of Design, host of the 32 longtime and key funder of the public interest design field, as well as co-chair of Grantmakers in Design. www.driehausfoundation.org first annual Public Interest Design Week in March 2013, as well as one of the foremost writers and thinkers on architecture and design. design.umn.edu Anne Fredericks is founding Heather Fleming is co-founder and executive director of Catapult Design, an outgrowth of Engineers Without Borders, which puts engineers to work on design projects for the public good. www.catapultdesign.org director of the Hester Street Collaborative, which facilitates participatory design projects with youth and under- resourced communities throughout New York City. www.hesterstreet.org Jeanne Gang is principal of Studio Gang Architects, which has made pro bono and public interest design hallmarks of its practice. www.studiogang.net Christine Gaspar is executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy in New York, engaging community members and youth in decisions shaping their neighborhoods. www.anothercupdevelopment.org 36 Rosalie Genevro is executive 38 Liz Gerber and Sami Nerenberg director of the Architectural are founder and director of League of New York, routinely recognizing public interest designers through its programs, while Cassim Shepard is editor of the League's Urban Omnibus publication. www.archleague.org operations for Design for America, started at Northwestern University, and now a network of volunteer, student-led studios at design schools across the country. www.designforamerica.com Alex Gilliam, founder and director of Public Workshop. "a cheerleader of possibility." creates uniquely engaging opportunities for youth and their communities to shape the design Sam Goldman and Ned Tozun are co-founders and Donn Tice is CEO of d.light, a social enterprise creating beautifully-designed, solar-powered lights to households without access to reliable electricity. www.dlightdesign.com of their cities www.publicworkshop.us Linda Grdina is a program officer of the Fetzer Institute, an operating foundation that in 2011 established a $1 million fund and advisory committee on design. www.fetzer.org 41 Toni Griffin is founding director of the J. Max Bond Center for the 42 Design of the Just City at the City College of New York, addressing unresolved challenges facing urban America. Rosanne Haggerty is founder and president of Community Solutions, a leading partner of the 100,000 Homes campaign to get one hundred thousand homeless people off the streets and into supportive housing by July 2013. www.cmtysolutions.org Dawn Hancock leads Firebelly Design and its multiple design and social change programs, including Camp Firebelly, a 10-day summer program. www.firebellydesign.com 43 Jamie Hand, Jennifer Hughes, and Jason Schupbach constitute the Design Division of the National Phil Harrison is the CEO of Perkins+Will, and a driving force behind the firm's Social Endowment for the Arts, a foremost funder of creative placemaking and public interest design initiatives. www.arts.gov Responsibility Initiative (SRI), frequently promoted by Eileen Jones and an extension of the firm's pledge through The 1% program of Public Architecture www.perkinswill.com Chris Hawthorne, architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times, has written extensively about the public interest design field, focusing on humanitarian design in particular. www.latimes.com Cheryl Heller is director of the MFA in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts in New York as well as founder of Heller Communication Design and board chair of PopTech, a laboratory for disruptive innovation, dsi.sva.edu 48 Diane Ives advises The Kendeda 50 Cathy Lang Ho is commissioner and co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion exhibition, Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, at the International Venice Architecture Biennale. Fund, a principal supporter and strategy partner of the Enterprise r of Rose Architectural Fellowship program, while investing in inter- disciplinary efforts that foster community, health, and equity. www.spontaneousinterventions.com David Kelley and Tim Brown lead design and strategy giant IDEO, as Chair and CEO; the firm has long applied its human-centered design approach to social chal- lenges, even before Kelley founded the Stanford d.school Michael Kimmelman is the architecture critic of The New York Times, writing frequently on design for the public good, including his debut cover story on the Via Verde housing development in the Bronx. www.nytimes.com and IDEO spun off IDEO.org. www.ideo.com Maurine Knighton is Senior Vice President and the Arts & Culture Program Director at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, focused on community-building and social justice. www.nathancummings.org Cuff Kuang is editor of Co.Design, the daily design arm of Fast Company magazine, which routinely profiles projects focused on design for social change. www.fastcodesign.com 53 54 Juliette LaMontagne is founder and director of Breaker, which mobilizes interdisciplinary teams of young creative collaborators to design product solutions to global challenges. www.projectbreaker.org Raymond Lifchez is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and founder of the Berkeley Prize Competition, a global essay and deasign competition for undergraduate students, focused on the social. art of architecture. 56 www.berkeleyprize.org Rachel Lloyd is founder and executive director of Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) and a vocal advocate for the power of design, having worked with Sonya Dufner, formerly of Perkins+ Will land now Gensler), to redesign GEM's headquarters in Harlem, N.Y. www.gems-girls.org Ashley Marsh and John Syvertsen are principal co-founders of Open Hand Studio within Cannon Design, spearheading the firm's pro bono design work and volunteer activities. www.cannondesign.com Patrice Martin and Jocelyn Wyatt are the co-leads of IDEO.org, a foremost design consultancy focused on the social sector, while Sean Hewens oversees IDEO.org's powerful HCD Connect network www.ideo.org Chelsea Mauldin is executive 60 director of Public Policy Lab, committed to the "more effective delivery of public services to all Americans" or what's known as service design. www.publicpolicylab.org Erinn McGurn is founder and executive director of SCALEAfrica, dedicated to designing and constructing vital school infrastructure projects in rural sub-Saharan Africa. www.scaleafrica.org Jenna McKnight is editor-in-chief of Architzer, and was previously news editor of Architectural Record and the driving force behind the magazine's landmark "Building for Social Change" issue, published in March 2012. www.architizer.c er.com Beth Miller is executive director of the Community Design Collaborative, playing the crucial role of matchmaker between design professionals and nonprofits in need of design assistance. www.cdesignc.org Michelle Mullineaux and Laetitia Wolff are co-founder and executive director, respectively, of desigNYC, which matches design professionals with New York area nonprofits in need of communications and environmental design services. www.designyc.org Diana Murphy is the editorial director of Metropolis Books/ DAP, publisher of many of the Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks are the principals of MASS Design Group, focused on designing, constructing, and advocating for buildings that improve health and strengthen communities. www.massdesigngroup.org foremost books on public interest design, including the first Design Like You Give a Damn, Architecture, Design Reveing The Power of Pro Bono, and Beyond Shelter, among others. www.artbook.com Eric Muschler is a program officer at the McKnight Foundation, focused on the design of affordable housing in the Twin Cities, and a key partner in the Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute. www.mcknight.org John Ochsendorf is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leading design/build projects around the world, while Amy Smith is founder and director of MIT's D-Lab, designing and implementing low-cost technologies. 68 www.mit.edu Liz Ogbu is a scholar in residence at the Center for Art & Public Life within the California College of Arts, focused on the intersection of design and social change. center.cca.edu Jennifer Pahlka is founder and executive director of Code for 70 America, which pairs fellows with cities to use technology to design data-drive apps to make public services more efficient. www.codeforamerica.org Sergio Palleroni is a professor and fellow in the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State Chee Pearlman is the curator of the Curry Stone Design Prize, an annual award program of up to $125,000 recognizing social design pioneers. www.currystonedesignprize.com 72 University as well as co-founder and director of the Building Sustainable Communities (Basic) Initiative. www.basicinitiative.com David Perkes is founding director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, established in Biloxi by Mississippi State University in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. www.gccds.org John Peterson is founder and president of Public Architecture, the flagship program of which is The 1% pro bono design campaign directed by Amy Ress, while the organization's design initiatives are led by Brad Leibin. www.publicarchitecture.org 73 Paul Petrunia is founder and editor of Archinect, which frequently covers and promotes the people and projects of the public interest design movement. www.archinect.com Emily Pilloton is founder and executive director of Project H Design and co-director with Matthew Miller of Studio H, an acclaimed high school design/build program now based out of the REALM Charter School in Berkeley, Calif. www.projecthdesign.org Dan Pitera is executive director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit-Mercy as well as a partner with Monica Chadha in the Impact Detroit initiative. www.dcdc-udm.org Brad Pitt and Tom Darden IIl of the Make It Right Foundation have built nearly 100 homes in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, while also embarking on projects outside the Crescent City www.makeitrightnola.org Sofya Polyakov and Edward Boatman are co-founders of The Noun Project, which creates and curates highly recognizable symbols and icons that represent civic life. www.thenounproject.com Paul Polak is the founder of Windhorse International, a for-profit company that "combines radically affordable technology with radically decentralized supply chains to earn profits serving bottom billion customers. www.paulpolak.com Timothy Prestero is co-founder and CEO of Design that Matters, prototyping products that allow social enterprises in developing countries to offer improved services and scale more quickly. www.designthatmatters.org Marika Shioiri-Clark is principal of SOSHL Studio, a firm dedicated to cross-sector social impact design, including work with women and girls through the Nike Foundation. www.soshl.com Mark Randall is co-founder and director of Worldstudio and Design Ignites Change, both of which focus on creating opportunities for students and practitioners to better engage in and understand design for social change. www.worldstudio.com Judilee Reed and Christina Rupp lead the community-engaged design initiative within the Thriving Cultures Program of the Surdna Foundation. www.surdna.org Paula Scher and Michael Beirut Susanne Shnell is executive director are partners of Pentagram, both consistently undertaking pro bono and public interest design work for clients ranging from Friends of the High Line to the Robin Hood L!brary Initiative. www.pentagram.com of Archeworks, an alternative design school for the public good, co-founded by Eva Maddox and Stanley Tigerman. www.archeworks.org Trinity Simons is the director of the Mayors' Institute on City Design, a unique partnership of the American Architectural Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and U.S. Conference of Mayors. www.micd.org Cynthia Smith is the curator of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's "Design Other 90" network, including its groundbreaking exhibitions, Design for the Other 90% and Design with the Other 90%: Cities. www.designother90.org James Stockard and Sally Young are curator and program director of the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Loeb Fellowship Program for midcareer professionals, including numerous from the public interest design field. gsd.harvard.edu Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair are co-founders of Architecture for Humanity and co-editors of the two Design Like You Give a Damn books. www.architectureforhumanity.org Katie Swenson is Vice President of Design for Enterprise Community Partners, overseeing the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship program established by Jonathan Rose, and the Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute, as well as co-chair of Grantmakers in Design. www.enterprisecommunity.org Susan Szenasy is editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine, which has long provided the most passionate and consistent coverage of what the magazine often terms "social design." www.metropolismag.com Edwin Torres is director of the Cultural Innovation Fund within the Rockefeller Foundation, providing crucial funding and support for New Year area arts and design organizations, while Benjamin de la Peña is associate director of urban development at the foundation. www.rockefellerfoundation.org 94 Emilie Taylor, Dan Etheridge, and, most recently, Maurice Cox lead the Tulane School of Architecture's efforts to help rebuild New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, principally through the Tulane City Center and its UrbanBuild program. www.tulanecitycenter.org Anne Trumble is founder and executive director of Emerging Terrain, a research and design collaborative working to engage the public about factors shaping the built environment in Nebraska and beyond. www.emergingterrain.org Katie Wakeford is the co-editor of two books, most recently Bridging the Gap: Public-Interest Architectural Internships with Georgia Bizios of North Carolina State University. design.ncsu.edu Barbara Wilson is director of the Center for Sustainable Michelle Yates is director of 98 Development at University of Texas, Austin, and head of the school's Public Interest Design Summer Program. soa.utexas.edu/csd corporate social responsibility for Adobe and executive director of the Adobe Foundation, a crucial backer and partner of public interest design organizations and initiatives. www.adobe.com Marie & Keith Zawistowski are co-founders and directors of the 100 Jess Zimbabwe is executive director of the Urban Land design/buildLAB at Virginia Tech, responsible for the stunning new Masonic Amphitheatre, while their colleague Andrew Balster is director of Virginia Tech's Chicago Studio. caus.vt.edu Institute's Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, which prepares and helps mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities. www.uli.org Tandus Salutes Emerging Supporters Tom Ellis is Vice President of Jennifer Busch, Vice President of A&D Market Development for Interface www. interface.com Marketing for Tandus Flooring, and the driving force behind the company's Socially Responsible Design Working Group and ongoing exploration of the public interest design field. Roger Call, Director of Healthcare for Herman Miller www.hermanmiller.com Ross Leonard, Corporate Vice President for J&J Industries www.j-invision.com O MaryEllen Magee, Marketing Director for Teknion www.tekus.com www.tandus.com Tandus is a member of the Tarkett family of companies, a worldwide leader in innovative John Stephens, Vice President of Marketing for Shaw Contract Group www.shawcontract.com flooring and sports surface solutions. www.tarkett.com Jon Strassner, National Director of Architecture & Design for Humanscale www.humanscale.com Curator Designer John Cary is founding editor of PublicinterestDesign.org, a research fellow at the University of Minnesota College of Design, co-curator of the Autodesk Gallery's Public Interest Design: Products, Places, & Processes exhibition, and founding director of Grantmakers in Design. www.johncary.us Megan Jett is a graphic designer, specializing in infographics, for clients such as ArchDaily, Autodesk Gallery. PublicinterestDesign.org, and others on an array of subjects. www.meganjett.com PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN COLLEGE OF DESIGN Infographic Tandus Partners UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FLOORING 49