Designing Democracy: The Future of Civic Engagement

  • Public Policy

Host department:

Designmatters & Humanities and Sciences

DM department:

Jennifer May, Executive Director
Leigh Hoffman, Faculty Director
Kimberly Velazco, Program Manager
Garret Scullin, Senior Coordinator

Faculty:

Candice-Leigh Baumgardner and Arden Stern

Guest speakers:

Mari Nakano, Design Director, Service Design Studio, NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity
Julio Marcial, Senior VP of Programs, Liberty Hill Foundation
Maya Chupkov, Media and Democracy Program Manager, California Common Cause
Nidhi Singh, Lead, Civic Design, Montgomery County

Students:

Cosme Cruz-Ramirez (Product Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Gary Loitz (Photography)
Mingshan Wang (Interaction Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)
Jeremy Zerger (Spatial Experience Design with Designmatters Minor in Social Innovation)