“The Alberti Program- Architecture for Young People” Practicum Course, Gay Lorberbaum
This course trains architecture students to introduce K-12 students from nearby Wellston, Missouri, to issues of architecture, design, and the environment.
Community Building, Building Community, Bob Hansman
This program offers students interactive opportunities to understand the social and cultural role of architecture in neighborhoods, cities, and other communities.
Graduate Urban Design Studios in New Orleans, John Hoal
These traveling studios allow Master of Urban Design program students to participate in the rebuilding of New Orleans. Past studios focused on the Lower Ninth and Central City districts. The Lower Ninth Studio led to a graduate student continuing work with a New Orleans community organization. The Central City studio work has led to a $50,000 grant to assist in further planning.
Post-Katrina NOLA Design Studios, Derek Hoeferlin
As part of a sequence of architecture and urban design studios, students work on applied design projects in New Orleans. The spring 2008 class worked with two community non-profit clients. For “God’s Vineyard” community garden and urban farm, students constructed chicken and goose coops. For the "Good Work Network," a small business asistance organization in the Central City neighborhood, the students devised re-use plans for the historic Franz Building. The students' work helped the Good Work Network secure $65,000 grant funding for the renovation, including placing first in the 2008 JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition.
Public Art at Grace Hill Health Clinic, Ron Fondaw
This course expands students’ theoretical study of public art with the added component of service to the community. Sttudents research shapes, materials, images and compositions that evoke positive feelings to use as artwork for seven branches of the Grace Hill Health Clinics.
Reconsidering the Margin: Places of Meeting, Spaces of Transformation, Jodi Polzin
This seminar challenges traditional methods of service-learning in the design disciplines and engages students in what is presently referred to as an underserved community, in a meaningful and transformative way. The seminar is taught as a preliminary course to a design/build project in the fall of 2009 which will take place in the same community.
Seminar in Community Design: Community Urban Agriculture in the Ville, Don Koster
This seminar provides students an opportunity to work with neighborhood residents of the historic Ville Neighborhood and a local not-for-profit agency. Together they research the best practices for understanding the physical, social, economic, and ecological implications of urban agriculture and its position in the creation of sustainable neighborhoods and cities.
Urban Development Seminar, Jodi Polzin
This seminar brings together the Washington University Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, and the St. Louis University Schools of Law and Social Work and the Department of Public Policy Studies to help students delve into issues of urban development and community-building through experiential learning in the Wellston Loop community.