 PHOTO CREDIT: AIGA Chicago 2011 | Under the lead of Pamela Napier and Lee Vander Kooi, select Herron School of Art & Design graduate students partnered with AIGA Chicago, Growing Home, and various local designers for the main purpose of teaching co-design approaches through practical application. Our team was responsible for developing and facilitating a one-day, condensed co-design workshop for local designers, community members, and Growing Home staff. |
 Through a partnership between Hawthorne Community Center and the Herron Visual Communication MFA program, our class was asked to identify ways for improving the efficacy of the community center. To achieve this goal we drew upon participatory design research methodologies in order to understand and assess existing services from the end-user's perspective.
 Housed within the Community Center, the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program sought to improve program outcomes through better serving client needs. To do so, we aimed to first develop a deep understanding of the current user’s experience through researching aspects of demographics, personal life, employment, routines, anxieties, problems, desires, and aspirations. From this understanding, new insights and opportunities for better serving clients could be developed.
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