Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces
How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including your race, age, ethnicity, or gender identity. In the architecture and design professions, decisions about the articulation of public spaces and who may be honored in them have often been made by white men. How do designers rethink design processes to produce works that hold space for the diversity of people using them?
 
In Empathic Design, designer and architecture professor Elgin Cleckley brings together leaders and visionary practitioners in architecture, urban design, planning, and design activism to help explore these questions. Cleckley explains that empathic designers need to approach design as iterative, changing, and shifting to say, “we see you”, “we hear you”. Part of an emerging design framework, empathic designers work with and in the communities affected. They acknowledge the full history of a place and approach the lived experience and memories of those in the community with respect.
 
Early chapters explore broader conceptual approaches, proposing definitions of empathy in the context of design, disrupting colonial narratives, and making space for grief. Other chapters highlight specific design projects, including the Harriet Tubman Memorial in Newark, The Camp Barker Memorial in Washington, D.C.,  the Freedom Center in Oklahoma City, and the Charlottesville Memorial for Peace and Justice.
 
Empathic Design provides essential approaches and methods from multiple perspectives, meeting the needs of our time and holding space for readers to find themselves. 
 
 
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Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces
How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including your race, age, ethnicity, or gender identity. In the architecture and design professions, decisions about the articulation of public spaces and who may be honored in them have often been made by white men. How do designers rethink design processes to produce works that hold space for the diversity of people using them?
 
In Empathic Design, designer and architecture professor Elgin Cleckley brings together leaders and visionary practitioners in architecture, urban design, planning, and design activism to help explore these questions. Cleckley explains that empathic designers need to approach design as iterative, changing, and shifting to say, “we see you”, “we hear you”. Part of an emerging design framework, empathic designers work with and in the communities affected. They acknowledge the full history of a place and approach the lived experience and memories of those in the community with respect.
 
Early chapters explore broader conceptual approaches, proposing definitions of empathy in the context of design, disrupting colonial narratives, and making space for grief. Other chapters highlight specific design projects, including the Harriet Tubman Memorial in Newark, The Camp Barker Memorial in Washington, D.C.,  the Freedom Center in Oklahoma City, and the Charlottesville Memorial for Peace and Justice.
 
Empathic Design provides essential approaches and methods from multiple perspectives, meeting the needs of our time and holding space for readers to find themselves. 
 
 
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Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces

Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces

Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces

Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces

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Overview

How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including your race, age, ethnicity, or gender identity. In the architecture and design professions, decisions about the articulation of public spaces and who may be honored in them have often been made by white men. How do designers rethink design processes to produce works that hold space for the diversity of people using them?
 
In Empathic Design, designer and architecture professor Elgin Cleckley brings together leaders and visionary practitioners in architecture, urban design, planning, and design activism to help explore these questions. Cleckley explains that empathic designers need to approach design as iterative, changing, and shifting to say, “we see you”, “we hear you”. Part of an emerging design framework, empathic designers work with and in the communities affected. They acknowledge the full history of a place and approach the lived experience and memories of those in the community with respect.
 
Early chapters explore broader conceptual approaches, proposing definitions of empathy in the context of design, disrupting colonial narratives, and making space for grief. Other chapters highlight specific design projects, including the Harriet Tubman Memorial in Newark, The Camp Barker Memorial in Washington, D.C.,  the Freedom Center in Oklahoma City, and the Charlottesville Memorial for Peace and Justice.
 
Empathic Design provides essential approaches and methods from multiple perspectives, meeting the needs of our time and holding space for readers to find themselves. 
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781642832051
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 01/16/2024
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Elgin Cleckley is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design at the University of Virginia with an appointment in the School of Education and Human Development and the School of Nursing. He is the Director of Design Justice at UVa’s Equity Center (Democracy Initiative Center for the Redress of Inequity Through Community-Engaged Scholarship), where he leads the school’s NOMA Project Pipeline: Architecture Mentorship Program. He is the principal of _mpathic design, a multi-award-winning pedagogy, initiative, and professional practice.
 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
Elgin Cleckley
 
Chapter 1: From Empathy to Ethics
by Christine Gaspar
 
Chapter 2: Making Space for Grief
by Liz Ogbu
 
Chapter 3: Unseen Dimensions of Public Space: Disrupting Colonial Narratives
by Erin Genia
 
Chapter 4: Renewing Spatial Agency for a Community: The Freedom Center, Oklahoma City
by Cory Henry
 
Chapter 5: The Harriet Tubman Memorial, Newark
by Nina Cooke John
 
Chapter 6: Materializing Memory: The Camp Barker Memorial, Washington, D.C.
by Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann
 
Chapter 7: Practicing _mpathic design: The Charlottesville Memorial for Peace and Justice
by Elgin Cleckley
 
Chapter 8: Incorporating Empathy: To Middle Species with Love, Columbus, Indiana
by Joyce Hwang
 
Chapter 9: Teaching Empathic Community Engagement Using Storytelling
by C.L. Bohannon
 
Afterword: Planning with Purpose: Repairing Past Harm with Empathy
by Mitchell J. Silver
 
Notes
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Index

 
 
 
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