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At CED, you are already surrounded by a vibrant community of design and planning firms, many with ties to the faculty and alumni.
And IDEO, the design and innovation firm, has developed the OpenIDEO platform to create a global community of design professionals interested in solving tough social problems in areas as diverse as human rights, urbanization, maternal health, and water sanitation.
For this reason, we're giving the fellowship yet another geometry this fall with the dual goals of (1) synthesizing and sharing some of the super-neat projects in the pipeline, and (2) continuing to expand and nurture our community of design educators.
MySpace and it's capricious community of design junkies are case in point, often changing their layouts almost as much as their favorite band of the moment.
"It's hard to imagine how I would have ever started my own business, immersed myself in the community of design on the web and gotten to where I am today without it," he says, adding that Austin is a "really great city".
After finding success as an event organizer, Hargis began feeling the stress of juggling multiple events nationwide, and decided to move back to Sacramento, where he zeroed in on some of his other passions, like architectural design, while immersing himself in a blossoming community of design-centric artists in the city.
This fall, I had planned a new initiative called Communities of Character, designed to spark a rebirth of citizenship and character and service.
The project is part of a trend of "adaptive urbanism", celebrated as a grassroots way of engaging communities to design and activate their cities.
