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Adaptive Design Planning: Sea Level Rise in Long Beach Communities
Read MoreCOANIQUEM: Safe Niños: Co-creating Innovative Healing Environments for Children
Read MoreFor the Future: Connecting Underserved Young Parents With Vital Resources
Read More"A designer’s desire to change the world can be incompatible with empathy, which necessitates relinquishing the impulse to remake the world as it should be in favor of grasping the world as it is for others."
Arden Stern, Faculty, Humanities & Sciences
Socially Engaged Art: Art in Urban Community Green Spaces
Read MoreBuilding Trust, Bridging Divides: Visual Communication/Branding Programming for the City of Long Beach Police Department and Community
Read MoreDesign Smarter: Reimagining Electronics for Repair & Recycle
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Smart Image/Social Impact: Myth vs. Reality in the Immigration Debate
Read More"The students were able to grasp the need and the reality of vulnerable communities and translate that information into creative yet realistic ideas. This was a great example of how design can contribute to furthering a cause."
Bianca Lomell, Regional Director for North America, Project Concern International (PCI)
A Future Vision for the Aquarium of the Pacific
Read MoreSafe Niños Development Studio: Charity Retail Pop-Up
Read MoreSpring 2018 - Host Department: Environmental Design