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Community Engagement
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Projects
Where Housing Meets Humanity
Three innovative housing projects that focus on care, community, and climate, redefining public housing with dignity.
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Viewpoints
Designers Rethinking Our Relationship to Water
Across sculpture, planning, and public space, designers are making invisible water systems visible again—challenging us to live differently with them.
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Projects
In Chicago, a Shuttered School Becomes a Beacon of Community Design
Lamar Johnson Collaborative turns the former elementary school into the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation, a hub for career training and community pride.
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Viewpoints
How Can Architecture Reflect the Needs of Its Communities?
Community engagement is a hot topic in design, but what is it and, more importantly, how do we do it? Here, we’ve gathered some top insights from our archives.
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Viewpoints
The Architects Shaping NYC’s Public Life
On NYC’s 400th birthday, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Weiss/Manfredi, and Marvel talk about civic spaces that shape the city's infrastructure.
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Viewpoints
These Students are Reclaiming Community Through Experimental Design
Future100 award–winning student projects reimagine what nurtures society—and what the traditional housing market neglects.
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Projects
A New Standard for Housing the Unhoused in Palm Springs
JFAK’s Homeless Navigation Center blends modular housing, support services, and shared spaces to create a humane, dignified alternative to traditional shelters.
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Profiles
At the Mellon Foundation, Justin Garrett Moore Connects Place and Memory
The Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place grant-making program is transforming communities through storytelling, conservation, and design.
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Viewpoints
How Can We Amplify Indigenous Design?
Catch up with METROPOLIS's ongoing coverage of indigenous design leaders, community engagement, and efforts to decolonize design.
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Projects
The təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre Reflects Local Values
Canada’s first Zero Carbon–certified aquatic center cuts back on its carbon emissions while building community engagement.
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Viewpoints
Changing Architecture from the Ground Up
METROPOLIS's 2024 Fall Issue explores projects and practices that blend tradition with innovation, challenging the status quo in architecture and design.
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Viewpoints
Three Firms Redefining Design Through Community-Led Processes
As part of their Alternative Practices project, Verda Alexander and Maya Bird-Murphy spotlight firms that are turning traditional Western design thinking on its head.
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Profiles
Ifeoma Ebo Is on a Quest for Urban Healing
Through trauma-informed design processes, Ebo aims for community stewardship and empowerment.
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Projects
Xtreme LA Trains Tomorrow’s Design Leaders on Environmental Stewardship
Students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo leveraged traditional ecological knowledge and community engagement to envision a future for Morro Bay, California.
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Profiles
How Abraham Burickson Designs Experiences, not Things
In his new book "Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto," Abraham Burickson distills his methodology into a set of principles and practices.
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Projects
How South L.A. Is Fighting Gentrification with Affordable Housing
As one of the city's poorest areas transforms into a hive of activity, the housing authority and private developers are redeveloping languishing housing with community support.