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Teaching and Designing in Detroit: Ten Women on Pedagogy and Practice book cover

1st Edition

Teaching and Designing in Detroit Ten Women on Pedagogy and Practice

Edited By Stephen Vogel, Libby Blume Copyright 2020
212 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides a compelling and insightful portrait of ten female architects, artists, and designers who explored unique approaches to teaching, practice, and research in the postindustrial city of Detroit. These women explored the phenomenon of a new “ecological urbanism” through their own work in art, architecture, design, planning, landscape architecture, and installation as well as the... Read more

Foreword

LESLIE KANES WEISMAN

 

Introduction: Ten Women Designers in Detroit

STEPHEN VOGEL AND LIBBY BALTER BLUME

 

1 The Search for a New Hybrid Landscape

STEPHEN VOGEL

 

2 Feminist Theory in the Practice and Pedagogy of Architecture and Design

LIBBY BALTER BLUME

 

PART 1

Creating: Intersectional Practices

 

3 Making in Detroit: Finding a Way to Act

RONIT EISENBACH

 

4 What Can We Co-Create That We Can’t Create on Our Own?

CHRISTINA BECHSTEIN

 

5 When Life Gives You Lemons

KAREN SWANSON 

 

PART 2

Teaching: Performative Pedagogies

 

6 Re-Centering: From Student to Person and From Self-Centered Learning to Civic Engagement

CLAUDIA BERNASCONI

 

7 Experimental Pedagogy: The Connection Between Teaching and Social Impact

AMY GREEN DEINES

 

8 Save-As Detroit: Design Process, Storytelling, and Engagement With Place

ALLEGRA PITERA

 

9 Detroit, My Teacher

JANINE DEBANNÉ

 

PART 3

Reframing: Transdisciplinary Communities

 

10 Shifting to an Equitable Development Framework

CHRISTINA HEXIMER

 

11 Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Detroit’s Shifting Paradigm

VIRGINIA STANARD

 

12 Reframing and Revealing Detroit

JULIE JU-YOUN KIM

 

Conclusion

JULIE JU-YOUN KIM AND STEPHEN VOGEL

 

Afterword

SHARON EGRETTA SUTTON

 

Biography



Stephen Vogel is Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Dean Emeritus of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. He is past president of the Detroit and Michigan Chapters of the American Institute of Architects and has received the AIA Detroit and Michigan Gold Medals. Vogel was inducted into the College of Fellows of the AIA in 1994, and is a national AIA Richard Upjohn Fellow and Louise Blanchard Bethune Fellow.



Libby Balter Blume is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy. She has a Ph.D. in Human Development, M.A. in Creative Arts Education, and B.A. in Studio Art. Blume is a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations and received the University’s Faculty Excellence Award in 2015 and the Women and Gender Studies Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.

"In this provocative collection of essays by influential women architects and educators, the post-industrial challenges of Detroit, and innovative programs at the School of Architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy to engage them, are compellingly told. Throughout, critiques of, and much-needed changes to, the academy and profession, are illustrated, and a more hopeful, diverse, and inclusive future envisioned." 
 - Thomas Barrie AIA, DPACSA, Professor of Architecture, NC State University
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