Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index.
Contents:
Planning with purpose: Repairing past harm with empathy / Mitchell J. Silver. From empathy to ethics / Christine Gaspar -- Making space for grief / Liz Ogbu -- Unseen dimensions of public space: disrupting colonial narratives / Erin Genia -- Renewing spatial agency for a community: The Freedom Center, Oklahoma City / Cory Henry -- The Harriet Tubman Memorial, Newark / Nina Cooke John -- Materializing memory: The Camp Barker Memorial in Washington, DC / Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann -- Practicing _mpathic design: The Charlottesville Memorial for Peace and Justice / Elgin Cleckley -- Incorporating empathy: "To middle species, with love," Columbus, Indiana / Joyce Hwang -- Teaching empathic community engagement using storytelling / C.L. Bohannon -- Afterword: Planning with purpose: Repairing past harm with empathy / Mitchell J. Silver.
Summary:
"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"--Publisher's web site for this work (https://islandpress.org/books/empathic-design, viewed 2023 December 22).
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