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Computer-Aided Design Meets Human-Centered Design

There I sat, surrounded by dozens of classmates, staring up at a hulking computer monitor, pecking away at a beige keyboard. We were buried...

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Best of 2013: The Top Nine Public Interest Design Milestones

Building on our review of PublicInterestDesign.org’s 2013 predictions for the public interest design field, today we’re highlighting the milestones from this past year. The list looks beyond individual design projects and instead toward initiatives with far-reaching consequences for the field—and, in some cases, the world.

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A Look Back at our Public Interest Design Predictions for 2013

For PublicInterestDesign.org’s third annual year in review series, we’re chronicling initiatives shaping the field of public interest design. As was the case in previous years, this is not an exercise in trend-spotting, but instead a meditation initiatives poised to advance a growing field at the intersection of design and social change.

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A Call for Equal Recognition of Women in Architecture

After many weeks of silence, the Pritzker Architecture Prize officially rebuffed the call of a 17,000-signature petition late last week by...

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The Global Public Interest Design 100

Around the world, a growing movement at the intersection of design and social change is taking hold. This work takes many forms as well as many names, but finds common ground in service of others. Think life-saving products, dignifying environments and places, and more efficient processes, services, and systems—all designed or redesigned for the betterment of all.

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A Good Design Glossary to Decode the Jargon

After last year's Social Impact Design Summit, we began to work on one popular request: to compile a glossary of social impact design...

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Human-Centered Design Boom: Introducing Public Interest Design Week

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Infographic: 100 Leaders in Public Interest Design

There is a growing movement afoot in design. It has assumed many names over the years, all of which emphasize the public good and the...

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5 Insights From the Helm of a Century-Old Company

A business can teach you a lot in 100 years.

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Why 'The Death of Architecture' May Not Be Such a Bad Thing

Public health may provide a viable model for those who became architects in order to make people’s lives better, not just cater to the 1 percent.

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Apple’s Brand at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices

Loyal Apple consumers call on the company to reform its supply chain before the launch of the company’s highly anticipated iPhone 5.

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How a Rwandan Hospital Became the Symbol of Public-Interest Design

A team of students proved that public interest design can and should be culturally appropriate, location-specific, and built for the long haul.

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Can Manhattan's High Line Be Replicated? Several Cities Are Trying

Every week, it seems, a different city is pitching its old steel rails as the “next” High Line.

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Rocco Landesman's Plan to Revive the Creative Scene in Small Towns and Mid-Size Cities

The chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts is obsessed with place and culture.

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A New Architectural Standard for Sustainable-Minded Companies

For building owners looking for a holistic approach to sustainability, SEED offers a new path.

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Why Architecture's Identity Problem Should Matter to the Rest of Us

Architecture remains an elite and homogenous profession, clinging to institutional barriers that have thwarted diversity.

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