an initiative of PennPraxis to create opportunities for community and design leaders to think together about ways to catalyze transformational design, planning, and place-keeping from the ground up.
Case Studies in Design is a collective writing project that creates opportunities for community and design leaders to think together about ways to catalyze transformational design, planning, and place-keeping from the ground up. The PennPraxis case study projects range from outstanding examples of community-engaged design practice to more radical roles and results of interdisciplinary work within movements. Our goal is to stimulate culture-shifting dialogue between public agencies, funders, community leaders, schools, and the architecture, landscape, planning, heritage and art fields. We will do this by learning from ambitious projects designed in community, sharing experience through a public library of 15 case studies, and a summit meetingin January 2027.
ABOUT PENNPRAXIS
PennPraxis is a non-profit design and planning practice that supports applied research and action in communities that design doesn’t typically serve. We work with community and indigenous leaders, faculty of theUniversity of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and other collaborators on “beyond the market” projects that actively promote justice, inclusion, innovation and social impact. Our interdisciplinary project teams create resources and support for diverse groups to work together to break new ground on complex environmental challenges.
