The Pacific Rim Community Design Network was launched following a working conference at University of California, Berkeley in 1998. Titled “Coastal Echoes: Democratic Design in the Pacific Rim,” the conference brought together leading community design scholars and practitioners from Japan, Taiwan and United States. The purpose of the conference was to provide the practitioners and scholars working in the field of participatory design and planning across the Pacific Rim region with an opportunity to share and compare each other’s experiences and advance their practice and research.
Through conferences and joint projects, the network has provided a vehicle for collaboration and mutual support, as well as a forum for a comparative understanding of community design in the fast-changing political and social context of the Pacific Rim. Network members now span from Asia-Pacific to the Americas, in countries including Australia, Canada, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States.
The Pacific Rim Community Design Network provides a vehicle for collaboration and mutual support for a comparative understanding of community design in the fast-changing political and social context of the Pacific Rim.
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Pacific Rim Community Design Network brings together community design scholars and practitioners from countries around the Pacific Rim through its regular conferences. Through conferences and joint projects, the network has provided a vehicle for collaboration and mutual support, as well as a forum for a comparative understanding of community design in the fast-changing political and social context of the Pacific Rim.
- provide practitioners and scholars working in the field of participatory design and planning across the region and beyond with opportunities to share experiences and knowledge and advance their practice and research
- enable and empower community members to become decision makers while we play the role of being facilitators
- use design as a tool to enhance human flourishing and improve physical, social and psychological well-being
Founding networks
DesignBuildXchange
a platform that engages people to actively participate in building a better world by connecting professional education with practice, scientific research and social engagement
Live Projects Network
an online resource to share practice and connect students, educators, clients, practitioners and researchers involved in live projects
SEED Network
advances the goal that design can play a role in working with communities to address the critical challenges faced by communities across the globe