DESIGN INITIATIVE FOR YOUTH 2010
Since 2004, volunteer students at the GSD have partnered with Citizens Schools, an 8th grade after-school program, to carry out an apprenticeship program. This program, Design Initiative for Youth (DIY), strives to introduce basic design concepts and critical thinking skills to eighth-grade students as part of their preparation for success in college-track high school programs. It has succeeded in giving eighth-graders an understanding of the built environment and how design can be a viable career option to shape their communities. The program also allows the GSD to strengthen ties to the community it inhabits, enabling the academic and social realms to positively impact one another. With these successes in mind, Project Link has been developed as the evolution of these ideals.
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DIY COMES TO HARVARD! (8)
Our Citizen Schools Teachers brought all the DIYers to the GSD for some demonstrations of laser cutters, water jet cutting stone on a robot arm, and 3d printing from Stephen Hickey. Mike Burton showed the students how the CNC router was making a model of their Site- their very own McCormack Middle School. GSD Students showed DIYers their own work- including a video game environment for testing architecture. We also had some snacks and a lot of fun. Photos by Hallie Chen -
DIY FALL 2010: DESIGN IT YOURSELF! (11)
So we are 4 Lessons in! The McCormack Designers are using their skills to reimagine the courtyard of their school. Using their new understandings of plan, section, and perspective, they are learning to communicate their ideas with visual representation. Photos by Hallie Chen -
DIY FALL 2010 (13)
DIY FALL 2010 16 Students and a handful of GSD teachers in partnership with Citizen Schools re-imagine the space of McCormack Middle School. GSD Instructors: Jade Yang Marika Shiori Clark Annie Kountz Shelby Elizabeth Doyle Hallie Chen With different Guest Experts each week. Photos by Shelby Doyle -
DIY: FALL 09 (13)
DIY Fall 2009. Over the course of the semester students participated in a competition organized by Citizens Schools Boston which tackled strategies to make Boston communities more environmentally sustainable and "green". Students chose to re-design the courtyard for their school: Rogers Middle School. -
DIY: FALL 08 (8)
DIY Fall 2008 apprenticeship program. Students developed design proposals to improve the waterfront area of the UMass Boston campus. A goal was to create a place where students and the community can successfully coexist. -
DIY: SPRING 08 (6)
DIY Spring 2008 apprenticeship program. Over the course of the semester, students developed design proposals reflecting their ideal vision for the transformation of Dudley Square, a hub in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. -
DIY: FALL 07 (11)
DIY Fall 2007 apprenticeship program. Over the course of the semester, students worked together to develop their ideal vision for the transformation of the Jackson Square Station, an MBTA stop along the Orange Line.