This presentation was done at Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration 2010

1. SOCIAL AGENCY IN EDUCATION
the case for cornell’s design education

2. RAWA BEBEK, JAKARTA

3. +
15 min
My House
+
30 min
To Airport
+ RW 13

9. there’s a mismatch between what
needs to be done and what
people are doing

10. agency

12. NEW SCHEME 4: to be built
DESIGN/BUILD
EXPERIENCE SUMMER+FALL 2009
D+E|E+D
design. engineering. education. development
Architecture
Structural Engineering WHAT IS IT?
Structural Design
Web Design
Landscape Architecture
Business
We are an interdisciplinary team dedicated to Social Architecture
and Engineering. PROJECT 1: House 2
Interior Design
Environmental Analysis We employ our creative energies, knowledge and idealism by en-
Environmental Engineering gaging developing communities. Sustainable And
Community Activism Affordable Home
Construction Management We focus on sustainable and equitable design of the built envi- Lansing, Tompkins County, NY
Construction Drawing ronment ranging from buildings, urban design/planning and infra-
Sustainable Materials structures. PARTNERS:
Sustainable Energy Systems
+ Community Building Works
Social Policy
+ Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Service (INHS)
City Planning
Civic Action
CURRENT PROGRESS:
+ Design Development
Interested?...
Let’s have a chat! + Material Research and Procurement
Barry Beagen: bb379@cornell.edu + Energy Systems Research
Jonathan Leape: jhl99@cornell.edu + Environmental Analysis

13. design ideas
partner:
Community
Building
Works

14. D+E|E+D and Design&Planning Group presents:
dispatch from GSD:
{ DSGN
AGNC }
DESIGN { Quilian Riano
DK Osseo-Asare }
FOR SOCIAL
Over recent years, a small but active micro-generation of
Harvard GSD students have worked collaboratively and progres-
sively to re-engage their design education with real communi-
ties outside the studio. Much of this work has emerged from
CHANGE AND
the student group Social Change and Activism (SoCA), a hori-
zontal organization of GSD students committed to proactive
social change. SoCA provides the infrastructure and network
of like-minded students to pursue ambitious projects that
bring quality design to local Boston communities and beyond.
ACTIVISM!
Recent design projects incubated by SoCA include a teen cen-
ter in Lowell, Massachusetts, a library installation in Bos-
ton’s Chinatown, and a community center in Capetown, South
Africa. SoCA also supports design education for Boston-area
youth through the Design Initiative for Youth program for
8th-graders and summer Project Link program for high school
students.
The work of SoCA is part of the larger project that Quilian
Riano has termed ‘critical activism’: a new wave of design-
ers that--while conscious of both modernism’s failed utopian
SEPT 17th
origins and post-war idealism--continue the search for alter-
native models to architectural practice. Today, students and
young designers believe once again that “design can change
5:00PM - 7:00PM
the world,” contending that participatory design is a tool
for shaping not only form, but also interrelated political,
social and economic systems and processes. By sharing recent
projects by SoCA and other GSD students that leverage design
LEWIS AUDITORIUM toward social equity, Dk Osseo-Asare and Quilian Riano will
offer through ‘Dispatch from GSD’ a primer on how to be a so-
cial revolutionary without burning down your design school.

18. doing a “good” job, is different
from doing a good job

19. agency education
=
intellectual
activism

20. skills
= work
your discipline, knowledge and
profession is a tool!
skills
work impact
agency

21. inter-disciplinary

22. discipline based
skill
problem
instead of making up problems,
solve existing problems...
problem based
skill skill
skill
skill
skill
skill skill
problem

23. inter-
agency disciplinary education

25. multi-scalar solutions from
collaboration
Meanwhile, the
parcels adjacent
are layered with
pre-fabricated tent is concrete float-
strong enough to resist layer of sand and ing foundation
hurricane but has a gravel for initial
light structure foundation
beer crate and canvas
foundation for the tent
is used
tent is converted to a concrete is
roof structure. The poured over
PHASE 1
canvas or tarp can be the layer of
fully enclosed sand and
gravel
walls, windows and a
door can be built when
more resources are
collected
PHASE 2
Proper roof, possibly
out of corrugated
When foundation has roof structure is
metal can replace the
been laid, the tents tent when needed
anchored securely to
can move in . More the foundation to
permanent settle- prevent lift
ments can occur.
PHASE 3

26. future

27. combining research and practical
engagement
[ JIRR operations ]
Jln Tol Pelabuhan
1995 - 1996
11.55km
Jln. Tol. Pluit - Tomang
1995 Jln Tol Ir. Wiyoto Wiyono
20km 1991
15.5km
[ timeline ]
The construction of the JIRR is a negotiation of
topography, political boundaries and economy. It
divides the communities and legal-political
boundaries.
The tollway not only separates the physical urban
JIRR fabric of city, it is also dilineates the sub-district
boundaries of the city. The sub-districts
(kecamatan) are adjacent to the tollway which
meant that the negotiation of the space under-
neath the tollway will either have to be a contes-
JORR tation amongst both sides or something larger -
the city itself.
elevated portion
~ 23 km
on the level of ground plane
proposed 3rd ring with minor grade separation
for sub-crossings
no. of walikota
no. of kelurahan
JIRR - Jakarta Inner Ring Road no. of kecamatan
JORR - Jakarta Outer Ring Road
proposed 3rd ring in Jakarta 2030 Spatial Masterplan

28. + commited
local
leadership
+ mobilizing individuals
+ involving the community

29. inter-
agency disciplinary education
institutions, businesses and stu-
dents have to re-think the way
they operate and innovate

30. summa cum laude
in
GLOBAL IMPACT