{"id":3027,"date":"2018-09-10T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2018-09-10T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T14:27:19","slug":"new-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2018\/09\/10\/new-here\/","title":{"rendered":"New Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moving to Raleigh on my own has recently prompted me to think a lot about community. It just happens that we have also been discussing what community means in seminar. It has almost felt like when you learn a new word and somehow everything you read now involves this word by some kind of cosmic educational force. Especially when <\/span>Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community <\/span><\/i>is brought up on the podcast I listen to during my commute and in class a few hours later. <\/span>My connections between life and classroom have felt \u00a0strong this week. <\/span><\/p>

I spent a lot of undergrad thinking about community too, it could be that this connecting thread through my week is really being pulled from the larger fabric of my previous design interests. \u00a0I spent most of my summers in Marion, Indiana working for <\/span>Marion Design Co.<\/span><\/a>, A community-based creative studio I helped found as a volunteer designer. For the past four years I have been wondering what role design plays in a town surrounded by corn fields, where most buildings are abandoned, and the majority of the population is over the age of fifty? \u00a0What defines a community, who belongs to it and who feels like they belong? And most of all, how to I design for them and <\/span>with<\/span><\/i> them? <\/span><\/p>

What I\u2019ve found is that design and community are far from mutually exclusive. \u00a0The more I felt like I <\/span>belonged<\/span><\/i> to a community of designers, the better my work got. \u00a0The more that I leaned into the people who lived around me, the more meaningful my work became to me. The more I listened, the more impactful my work was to others. <\/span><\/p>

I am curious and excited as I begin to navigate designing with a new cohort and in a new city. I look forward to the ways you all will make me an exponentially better person and designer. <\/span><\/p>

For smarter people talking about community see: <\/span><\/p>

Hidden Brain Podcast: <\/span>\u201cThe Lonely American Man\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Bren\u00e9 Brown TED Talk: <\/span>\u201cThe Power of Vulnerability\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In thinking about communities\u2014how they form, how they are sustained and why they die\u2014we\u2019re considering the question ‘Where can I be at home?'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":3028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-incidentals","entry-card--portrait"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/newhere.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86O3z-MP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}