Impact Wrkshp x Pratt SoD Co-Design
In Fall 2022, Impact Wrkshp joined forces with Pratt Institute’s School of Design to offer Pratt students the opportunity to learn co-design through hands-on, community-partnered projects. Our courses, Interplay: Ethics and Tactics of Co-Design, and the SoD Co-Design Studio, empower students to design through an equity-centered lens, working with, rather than for, their local community.
Follow our interdisciplinary projects and partnerships on Instagram @Pratt_SoD_Codesign.
Our Past Impact Projects
PS 5 Gallery
Repurposing everyday objects to create a space of active learning and engagement, the PS 5 Gallery is designed to showcase artwork by 600 K-8th grade students at the Michael Conti School in Jersey, City NJ. A flexible exhibition space is accompanied by a learning lab and living archive.
Impact Project Summer 2021
Storey
A self-deployable unit, [storey] empowers adolescents to become authors of the spaces they inhabit by allowing them to curate a common setting – lunchtime – and to re-design the act and space of eating. Store personal goods + Tell your spatial story.
Impact Project Summer 2014
Covid-KIT
Re-imagining social distancing guidelines as tools to bring people together rather than to keep them apart, Covid-KIT deploys multi-game circles, sensible spacers, and artistic rest spots to activate the sidewalk as space for celebration amidst uncertainty and isolation.
Impact Project Summer 2020
Hammock Room
Focusing on the power of participatory design + mindfulness to support mental health in the classroom, Impact Wrkshp partnered with Newark Yoga Movement, to design and build The Hammock Room at the Sussex Avenue Renew School.
Impact Project Summer 2019
Armadillo Playmat
Armadillo is a playmat prototype designed to stimulate various exploration strategies in children helping them to build their spatial reasoning skills. The playmat provides an open environment in which children get to be the author of their play narrative.
Impact Project Summer 2015
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