Featured Projects
On 15, Jan 2019 | No Comments | In Classes Collaborative Projects Design Thinking: Strategies & Tactics Organizational Structures Sustainability and Design | By Collaborative Design
Spark Park
Why put a park on a busy city road? The Spark Park is exploring the intervention of the space between the college’s two buildings in order to connect with the community and to create a campus.
On 07, Jun 2016 | No Comments | In Classes Collaborative Projects Special Topics | By Collaborative Design
SEEDS Of Promise
SEEDS Of Promise is a place-based urban community improvement initiative located in the Southeast community of Grand Rapids. Their mission is to provide a tiered program of employment, education, and housing to homeless individuals in Grand Rapids. In the winter of 2016, SEEDS Of Promise and the Collaborative Projects course began a strong relationship, mainly involved with researching and developing concepts for the housing aspect of their program.
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On 08, May 2014 | In Classes Collaborative Projects | By Collaborative Design
KCAD@Owosso
The Spring 2014 Collaborative Projects team’s mission was to explore a connection with the city of Owosso. Their project: KCAD@Owosso aimed to discover what that connection might look like, through academic planning, utilization of pre-existing buildings, as well as a community and student engaging idea called the Hive Resource.
On 11, Apr 2013 | No Comments | In Classes Collaborative Projects | By Collaborative Design
Chairmania
Collaboratively organizing an exhibit for the miniature chair collection titled “Chairmania” owned by George Beylarian, founder of Material Connexion. A group of varying majors
On 28, Jul 2012 | In Classes Collaborative Projects | By Collaborative Design
Artifact GR
Students of the 2012 Collaborative Projects class created the concept of ArtifactGR, a place where community members write stories about objects in the Grand Rapids Public Museum’s collections. After the class ended a book was compiled and published. Read more…
On 08, Dec 2011 | In Classes Collaborative Projects | By Collaborative Design
KCAD Dominican Republic Study Away
In July of 2013, a group of KCAD and FSU students embarked on a trip to the Dominican Republic to solve the problem of water quality, sourcing, treatment, distribution and other varying factors. With help from Triple Quest of Cascade Engineering, the safe water team, and Aqua Clara, the students worked to better understand water systems, community, the triple-bottom line, and human-centered design.
