Live Project, Design Build and Community Design Education

Live Project, Design Build and Community Design Education connect students with a complex world. This book tells the stories of students, educators and stakeholders working together to initiate and realise ambitious projects such as buildings, landscapes, infrastructure and strategic interventions, often in marginalised contexts with limited resources.The book presents a global history to counterbalance prevalent North American and European accounts, demonstrating that live project, design build and community design education developed in a series of parallel evolutions in response to specific events and locations. Such scattered activity taking place in silos and on the periphery has made mutual recognition and connection difficult. This book identifies themes, pedagogies and practices shared across time, place, culture and discipline, reframing live project education as a connected field. Research conducted for this book plus analysis of existing literature, data and theory demonstrates that live project education is particularly suited for engagement with complex social, environmental, economic and ethical challenges.This book is for students, educators, researchers, practitioners and stakeholders involved in experiential design education internationally. It provides a shared and inclusive basis for understanding diverse global practices past and present in order to facilitate connection between different actors in the field in future.