Design Brigade

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Through a collaboration with Atelier Cho Thompson and Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Design Brigade launched in New Haven, Connecticut in 2020. Multi-disciplinary teams made up of Yale undergraduates and graduate students research key conceptual questions surrounding changing social and cultural rituals facing the world. Guided by practicing designers and academics, the teams work towards built solutions. By serving and working with community clients, students develop design skills through real-world problem solving and will deliver plans that can be implemented.

All images by Design Brigade students. Click here to learn more about the project.

Click here to read articles documenting the process.

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NEW HAVEN COMMUNITY PARTICIPANT

There is a difference between designing with and designing for. We learned how to approach a conversation with someone who has different experiences than you…

DESIGN BRIGADE STUDENT PARTICIPANT

“In approaching their tasks, Design Brigade students solicited input from the community and used it to shape their proposals,” Thompson said. “They learned a lesson that isn’t often taught in architecture school: a designer’s first job is to listen.”

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