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Participatory Education: Supporting Community Engagement Within and Beyond the Classroom

Research Open House 2022

Irina Schneid
Alana Fried, MFA Interior Design ’22
Can Sucuoglu, SAVI and School of Information
School of Design, Interior Design
diagram of Pratt's network of community partners
Institute-wide mapping of Pratt’s community partners, produced in partnership with SAVI.

This research project sought to document the current state of civic engagement across the institute, to identify opportunities, challenges, and resource needs of community-partnered courses, and to develop recommendations for sustaining community engagement in the absence of institutional centralization of these efforts.

diagram partnerships overlaid on a map of New York City
GIS-based mapping of Pratt’s community partners, produced in partnership with Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (SAVI).
posters for related events for participatory design.
Event posters for Perspectives on Participatory Design I & II.