Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues is the first book to demonstrate that public interest design has emerged as a distinct profession. It provides clear professional standards of practice following SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design) methodology, the first step-by-step process supporting public interest designers. The book features an Issues Index composed of ninety critical social, economic, and environmental issues, illustrated with thirty case study projects representing eighteen countries and four continents, all cross-referenced, to show you how every human issue is a design issue.

Contributions from Thomas Fisher, Heather Fleming and David Kaisel, Michael Cohen, Michael P. Murphy Jr. and Alan Ricks, and over twenty others cover topics such as professional responsibility, public interest design business development, design evaluation, and capacity building through scaling, along with many more. Themes including public participation, issue-based design, and assessment are referenced throughout the book and provide benchmarks toward an informed practice. This comprehensive manual also contains a glossary, an appendix of engagement methods, a case study locator atlas, and a reading list. Whether you are working in the field of architecture, urban planning, industrial design, landscape architecture, or communication design, this book empowers you to create community-centered environments, products, and systems.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgments (p. vii)
• Foreword (p. ix)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Part 1 Understanding Public Interest Design: Essays
• 1 The State of Public Interest Design (p. 11)
• 2 What Social Justice Movements Can Teach Us about Public Interest Design (p. 19)
• 3 Professional Responsibility and Ethics (p. 35)
• 4 Learning from Public Interest Practices (p. 45)
• 5 Designers Engaging in Business Development (p. 57)
• 6 Evaluating Impact without Evidence (p. 67)
• 7 Post-Occupancy: Implementation and Evaluation (p. 81)
• Part 2 Practicing Public Interest Design: SEED Methodology
• 8 Social Economic Environmental Design Methodology (p. 93)
• 9 The SEED Evaluator and SEED Certification (p. 99)
• 10 Starting a Project: Public Participation and the Feedback Loop (p. 105)
• 11 Moving Forward Together: Engagement in Community Design and Development (p. 109)
• 12 Paths to a Sustainable Future: Native American Community Building (p. 115)
• 13 Sustaining Collaboration: Extended Engagement (p. 121)
• 14 Storytelling for Social and Environmental Impact in Design (p. 125)
• 15 Amplifying Community Voice: Neighborhood Identity Development (p. 129)
• 16 Doing More: Issue-Based Design and the Triple Bottom Line (p. 133)
• 17 Unthinking Sanitation for the Urban Poor (p. 137)
• 18 A Balanced Approach to the Demand for Classrooms (p. 143)
• 19 Assessing Results: Defining and Measuring Success (p. 147)
• 20 Designing Solutions to Childhood Malnutrition, Ramsey Ford (p. 151)
• 21 Setting the Stage for Social, Economic, and Environmental Achievement: Benchmarking the Durham Performing Arts Center (p. 157)
• 22 Scaling a Project: Uniting Diverse Stakeholders (p. 163)
• 23 Lessons from Rwanda: Scaling Up Holistic Approaches to Health Facilities (p. 167)
• 24 Evolving the Sanitation Marketplace in Cambodia (p. 173)
• Part 3 Documenting the Value of Public Interest Design: Case Studies and Issues Index
• 25 The Issues Index: Expanded Opportunity through an Issues Approach (p. 181)
• 26 Case Studies and Issues Index (p. 185)
• Glossary (p. 306)
• Editor Biographies (p. 310)
• Contributor Biographies (p. 311)
• Reading List (p. 317)
• Appendix A Methods of Engagement (p. 321)
• Appendix B Issues Index Cross-Reference Guide (p. 327)
• Appendix C Case Study Locator Map (p. 333)
• Image Credits (p. 336)
• Index (p. 345)