Enterprise Design Portfolio 2017

ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS

2017 DESIGN PORTFOLIO

National Design Initiatives 334 Boylston Street #400 Boston, MA 02116 (781) 235-2006 www.enterprisecommunity.org/design-leadership

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BIOGRAPHY Enterprise is the only organization of its scale that intentionally leverages the power of design to improve communities and people’s lives by making well-designed homes affordable, connecting them to resources like healthcare, schools, jobs and transportation so that people have opportunities to reach their full potential.

A proven nonprofit, Enterprise brings together nationwide know-how, partners, policy leadership, and investment to multiply the impact of local affordable housing development. Over more than 30 years, Enterprise has created nearly 358,000 homes, invested $23.4 billion and touched millions of lives.

STATEMENT Enterprise believes quality design is a critical part of improving communities and people’s lives. Designed to cultivate the next generation of architectural leaders committed to equitable communities, the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship is the premier career path for young architects to support public interest design, partnering emerging designers with community developers for three years. Together they innovate, strengthening the development process within which community developers and housing authorities must work while increasing resident and community well-being through improved design.

Enterprise’s Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute gives practical and inspira-tional design feedback to developers in the pre-development design phase at charrettes led by visionary designers in the field.

After 16 years of an intentional focus on improving design in community development, we have exemplary examples of bringing the social, economic, education, environmental and health benefits of design excellence to low-income communities nationwide.

LEADERSHIP Terri Ludwig, President & CEO of Enterprise Community Partners Katie Swenson, Vice President of Design, Sustainability & Resilience

ACCOLADES Terri Ludwig and Enterprise were named to Forbes’ inaugural Impact 30, a list of the people who are using business to solve social issues. Ms. Ludwig also received the 2016 Responsible CEO of the Year Award by Corporate Responsibility CR Magazine for CEOs who visibly exceed standards in the areas of employee relations, environmental impact and sustainability, human rights, philanthropy, and corporate responsibility practices.

For our work in promoting design excellence, Enterprise was awarded the 2017 AIA Collaborative Achievement award for excellence that results when architects work with those from outside the profession to improve the spaces where people live and work.

In this past year, Katie Swenson was honored at the 2016 Institute for Public Architecture annual gala at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Additionally, Rose Fellow alumna Jess Zimbabwe received the 2016 Excellence in Social Impact Design Award from Inscape Publico, Wayne Mortensen receive the AIA Service Award from the 2016 Cleveland AIA Design Awards, and Katherine Williams received the AIA Virginia Emerging Professional Award.

Additionally, Enterprise received the 2015 Stevie Award for Women in Business, the world’s premiere business awards competition, and in 2014, and we were awarded the Housing Visionary Award by the National Housing Conference that recognizes organizations and individuals shaping the path forward for affordable housing in America through leadership, innovation and a focus on people, communities and partnership.

TABLE OF CONTENTS WE USE DESIGN TO...

BUILD BETTER AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute 8-9

Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative 10-11 DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF DESIGN LEADERS Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship

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IMPROVE COMMUNITY WELL-BEING

Outcomes Based Design

Enterprise Green Communities Criteria

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END HOMELESSNESS

Star Apartments

Richardson Apartments

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FOSTER MORE EQUITABLE AND RESILIENT NEIGHBORHOODS

Design for Equity

Collaborative Actions

Bartlett Events

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BUILD BETTER AFFORDABLE HOUSING

How can designers help affordable housing developers?

Tour of Eastern Market in Detroit for the 2016 AHDLI, pictured is Dan Carmody, Executive Director (Harry Connolly)

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Working session at the 2016 AHDLI in Detroit (Harry Connolly)

Rose Fellow Joshua Budiongan and Maurice Cox at the 2016 AHDLI in Detroit (Harry Connolly)

AFFORDABLE HOUSING DESIGN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (AHDLI) I NATIONWIDE

BEYOND ONE BUILDING The Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute brings together leaders on the frontline of affordable housing design and development for a two-and-a-half day session focused on innovation and best practices in community design. The Institute explores the role of design through the lens of seven real-life projects in the pre-development design phase and through intensive dialog between community developers and architects.

Date of Work: 2016 Location: Detroit Nova Development Group Developers:

The Community Builders

Delta Design Build Workshop Amandla CDC

West Angeles CDC

Hope Enterprise Corporation

Steven C. Flum, Inc. Anchor Team

LOCAL CONNECTION

Date of Work: 2015 Location: Atlanta

Each year the Institute is held in a different city, and from where three of the seven development projects are based. The first activity that the group particpiates in is a tour of completed projects from that area that have some inspirattional or speciifc charaterics.

Developers: LUCHA

Urban Housing Solutions Claretian Associates

Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI)

Tapestry Development Group

Dorchester Bay EDC

NATIONAL LEADERS

Date of Work: 2014 Location: Los Angeles

Leading design experts from across disciplines come to speak candidly about their experiences while also provided design feedback on the development projects. Common themes included the importance of leveling the playing field by providing access to opportunity, building community power, and actively engaging people in the process.

Developers: A Community of Friends

East Bay Asian Local Development Corp.

Meta Housing Corporation

East L.A. Community Corporation Medici Communities

Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. Date of Work: 2013 Location: Chicago Developers: La Casa Norte

Lawndale Christian Development Corp.

Presbyterian Senior Care CommonBond Communities

West Hollywood Community Housing Corp.

Wishrock Investment Group Renaissance NDC Date of Work: 2012 Location: New York City Date of Work: 2011 Location: Boston Date of Work: 2010 Location: Minneapolis

Tour of Eastern Market at the 2016 AHDLI in Detroit (Harry Connolly)

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BUILD BETTER AFFORDABLE HOUSING

How can we foster cultural identity in Native American communities?

Horno and village square at Tsigo Bugeh. (Harry Connolly)

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Construction of a straw bale house. (Red Feather Development Group)

Tomasita Duran, Executive Director of Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority. (Harry Connolly)

SUSTAINABLE NATIVE COMMUNITIES COLLABORATIVE I SANTA FE, NM

CULTURAL IDENTITY The Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative is a group of community designers, architects, development leaders and sustainability advocates who work with American Indian communities to develop a road map to sustainable development and are dedicated to green affordable housing in rural and tribal communities. The SNCC is built off off of the experiences of three cosequitive Rose Fellows.

Date of Work: 2009 - Current Location: Nationwide

CULTURAL PRESERVATION SNCC began through its deep involvement with the tribal community of Ohkay Owingeh in New Mexico and Rose Fellow, Jamie Blosser. A 40 unit rental development at Tsigo Bugeh Village incorporated substantial community participation, including storytelling about how life used to be for tribal elders in the old plaza area. This was followed by a comprehensive master plan which won a Smart Growth Award for Small Communities and utilized massing reminscencient of the old pueblo. The success of these projects helped build the capacity of the Ohkay Owingeh community to undertake a rehabilitation of Owe’neh Bupingeh, the historic center the pueblo.

LOCAL CAPACITY Following the early successes in Santa Fe, SNCC worked with the Northern Cheyenne tribal members and Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum to help the Red Feather Development Group (RFDG) develop a design/build cooperative. RFDG’s design/build program equips tribal members with the necessary skills to address long-term housing needs in their communities using sustainable, readily-available local materials.

Graphic depicting the learning cycle of Enterprise and SNCC (Amber Chistoffersen)

JAMIE BLOSSER, ROSE FELLOW 2000 - 2003 Jamie Blosser, AIA, LEED AP, spent her Rose Fellowship at the Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority, where she later led the Owe’neh Bupingeh Rehabilitation Project. Jamie founded the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative (SNCC) and has previously served as director of Atkin Olshin Schade Architects’s Santa Fe office. Jamie graduated with a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, has been a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and is now the Executive Director of the Sante Fe Art Instutute where art, artists and the community reimagine a more equitable world.

JOSESPH KUNKEL, ROSE FELLOW 2013-2015 Joseph Kunkel spent his fellowship at the Santo Domingo Tribal Housing Authority and Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative outside of Santa Fe, NM. Joseph led the organization to recieve a $500,000 grant from ArtPlace to develop local artwork along a trail from the pueblo center to the new housing tax-credit development at the historic trading post and station stop of the local communter train. He now is the Executive Director of SNCC.

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DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF DESIGN LEADERS

What can affordable housing developers teach young designers?

Permanently installed trailers in Greenwood, MS following Hurricaine Katrina, project of Rose Fellow Emily Roush-Elliott (Harry Connolly)

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Livernois Design Center in Detroit, project of Rose Fellow Ceara O’Leary (Harry Connolly)

ENTERPRISE ROSE ARCHITECTURAL FELLOWSHIP I NATIONWIDE

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship is the premiere career path for architects passionate about public interest design. Fellows bring their design skills to innovative community developers across the country to gain first-hand training and experience in sustainable community developement. Under the program’s unique and participatory structure, fellows work in the community, forging local ties and expanding the capacity of their host organizations to design and develop sustainable, affordable housing for people of low-income in underserved communities.

Date of Work: 2000 - Current Location: Nationwide Partners:

Over 81 community development organizations have hosted fellows across the county.

ISSUE AREAS Rose Fellows often work on design issues in areas including senior housing, rural and farmworker housing, Native American communities, transit-oriented development, eco-districts, resiliency, neighborhood revitalization, and supportive housing.

BUILDING COMMUNITY CAPACITY When Rose Fellows assimilate into their host organizations as valued staff members, their presence often times enables the organzition to achieve its own innovative missions around meeting green building standards, community engagement and designing for intended social and health outcomes.

Rose Fellows jumping in front of street art in Santa Fe, NM during a retreat in 2015 (Harry Connolly)

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Prior to MHO’s involvement in the Rose Fellowship program, our work in the community was stifled by the lack of understanding by our local design professionals of the affordable housing issue. They were interested and supportive, but did not understand the narrowly prescribed financing programs we are forced to operate under and what a huge impact this has on design.

When Geoffrey Barton came on board as our fellow, he immediately began collaborating with local architects and designers. He was able to communicate the importance of our affordable housing work, how local designers could help contribute, and how together we could increase housing opportunities for our most needy citizens.

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Cindy Visnich Weeks, Mountain Housing Opportunities, Inc.

KATIE SWENSON, ROSE FELLOW 2001 - 2004 Katie Swenson is the Vice President of the National Design Initiatives at Enterprise Community Partners. She oversees the Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute and the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship, a program uniquely designed to nurture a new generation of community architects.

After completing her own Rose Fellowship, Katie founded the Charlottesville Community Design Center and led it to establish, with Habitat for Humanity, an influential and acclaimed international design competition. She was recently honored by the Institute of Public Architecture at their annual gala.

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DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF DESIGN LEADERS

How can we foster a learning network of socially conscience designers?

Rose Fellowship Bruce Eisenberg of the New York City Housing Authority leads fellowship finalists on a tour of the High Line in New York City (Mia Scharphie)

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Rose Fellowship Director Christopher Scott and Rose Fellow Jae Shin (Mia Scharphie)

ROSE FELLOWSHIP FINALIST SUMMIT + ALUMNI NETWORK I NATIONWIDE

DUAL OBJECTIVES OF THE SUMMIT There are two, complementary goals for the Rose Fellowship Finalist Summit. The first is as an important step in the fellow selection process. The other is build and nurture the emerging talent in the public interest design field and connect impact-oriented design leaders to one another and with the community development field. To that end, the summit includes events that are networking-focused, as well as ones that are selection process-focused. Each fellow presents themselves and their work through a 4-minute pecha kucha presentation.

Date of Work: Selection Process, 2015 and 2016 Location: New York City Date of Work: Alumni Retreats, 2014 and 2015 Location: Greenwood, MS and Garrison, NY

POISED TO SUCCEED We want the finalists to be successful, and in order to ensure that we contract with Mia Scharphie of Creative Agency to provide 30 minutes of one-onone video conference coaching to all finalists as they prepare their pecha-kucha presentations.

Alumni, fellows and staff at the Garrison Instiute for a retreat in 2015 (Harry Connolly)

STRENGTHENING RELATIONSHIPS Our 69 Rose Fellow alumni stay connected in many ways. While usually virtually through an active and participatory online platform, additional informal and formal gatherings take place throughout the year. At times they are improntu gatherings for locally-based fellows in a given area where Enterprise happens to be visiting, but other times, more substantial retreats are hosted for alumni to engage with one another, in addition to our staff and current fellows.

Collateral from the first annual Rose Fellowship Finalist Summit, 2015 (Mia Scharphie)

Alumni, fellows and staff in Greenwood, MS for a retreat in 2014 (Harry Connolly)

Group picture of all attendees at the Garrison Institute retreat (Harry Connolly)

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IMPROVE COMMUNITY WELL-BEING

How can we design for the outcomes we seek - and be held accountable?

Graphic of neighborhood outcomes (ISA and HealthxDesign)

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R+D Studio for the Outcomes Based Design method (ISA and HealthxDesign)

OUTCOMES BASED DESIGN I NATIONWIDE

SOCIAL IMPACT BY DESIGN Whether designers are conscious of it or not, social impact is a dimension associated with every project. The work of designers, and architects in particular, affects the physical environment and the human experiences that those spaces create. We know that human health is greatly influenced by complex environmental, physical, social, and economic factors. Designers are able to affect the central experiences that people have with one another and their communities.

Date of Work: 2014 - 2016 Location: Nationwide Partners: Interface Studio Architects HealthxDesign

East Bay Asian Local Development Corp.

Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly

The Cornerstone Group

OUR RESPONSIBILITY Enterprise has a unique role as an intermediary to curate, promote and incentivize a design process through which community impact can be amplified in a measured and predicatable way. We believe that in order to address the pressing needs in communities today, multi-sector collaboration needs to be realigned toward a common purpose. In order to advance this, Enterprise has beta-tested an interdisciplinary ALEXIS SMITH, ROSE FELLOW, 2015-2017 outcomes-based design method.

METHOD The Outcomes Based Design method was developed to provide a structured framework for organizing and communicating a robust design process to diverse audiences and project team members. Three fellows joined architectural partner, Interface Studio Architects, and public health partner, HealthxDesign, in an R+D Studio to provide real-life developement projects to use as examples throughout the method’s development. The method created utilizes an approach to hold design accountable to community need in impactful and measurable ways. It also serves as a framework for building out a larger outcomesbased design tool to address the diverse perspectives of multiple audiences and the many, complex steps within existing design and development processes. It requires a cross disciplinary team comprised of diverse perspectives and expertise that work together to inform unexpected design strategies that lead to maximum impact potential.

Alexis works with Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly which provides safe and affordable independent housing where older adults of all backgrounds can age in community. Through this partnership, Alexis hopes to arrive at a rich and nuanced understanding of how to design the best possible housing for seniors. In addition to focusing on design that improves resident health and wellness, her work looks at how design can foster supportive social networks not just within JCHE properties but with the neighboring community as well.

ANNIE LEDBURY, ROSE FELLOW, 2015-2017 Annie is hosted by the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, an organization with historic commitments to the Asian and Pacific Islander communities and an ongoing effort to build healthy vibrant and safe neighborhoods for the diverse population of the East Bay. EBALDC has a strong interest in improving neighborhood health outcomes; Annie works to further their Healthy Neighborhoods initiative and instill a culture of design-thinking, collaboration and creative community engagement within the organization.

STEPHEN KLIMEK, ROSE FELLOW, 2015-2017 Hosted by the Cornerstone Group, a mission-driven development group in Minneapolis, Stephen is working to create a district-level approach to investment and development decisions in Prospect Park and beyond. Cornerstone is exploring the possibility for district systems to promote redevelopment and improve efficiency in the use of common resources such as parking, storm water, energy, heating and cooling, green space, data and waste.

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IMPROVE COMMUNITY WELL-BEING

How do we improve the affordable housing industry?

Via Verde, a project of Rose Fellow Tara Seigel, developed by Jonathan Rose comampanies and designed by Dattner Architects and Grimshaw

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Faubourg Lafitte housing development in New Orleans (Harry Connolly)

ENTERPRISE GREEN COMMUNITIES CRITERIA I NATIONWIDE

BEYOND ONE BUILDING Enterprise Green Communities helps developers, investors, builders and policymakers make the transition to a green future for affordable housing. We developed the criteria to bring the improved health, economic and environmental benefits of sustainable construction practices to low-income families.

HOLISTIC APPROACH Enterprise has partnered with some of the nation’s leading environmental, public health and green building experts to develop the criteria. This green building framework is the first in the nation to address the unique needs of the affordable housing sector. The Criteria’s holistic approach to green building and development promotes better ways to plan neighborhoods and build homes, effecient operations of homes and entire buildings, healthy living environments, and energy effiecieny and resource conservation.

2015 ENTERPRISE GREEN COMMUNITIES CRITERIA

Cover of the 2015 Enterprise Green Communities Criteria (Enterprise Community Partners)

Date of Work: 2004 to present - updated 2008, 2011, 2015 Locations: California Colorado

District of Columbia Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Louisiana Maryland Michigan Minnesota Missouri New Jersey New Mexico

New York & New York City North Dakota Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Partners: Aeon

Atkin Olshin Schade Architects

Building Performance Solutions BuildingGreen Camroden Associates Delos Living Enterprise Homes Global Green

Green and Healthy Homes Initiatives

Healthy Building Network

International Living Futures Institute

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)

McCormack Baron Salazar Mithun

National Center for Healthy Housing NeighborWorks

New Buildings Institute

New Ecology Inc.

O’Brien & Company

Resilient Design Institute STAR Communities Strategic Economics Tohn Environmental

U.S. Bancorp CDC U.S. EPA

U.S. Green Building Council

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END HOMELESSNESS

How can design uplift marginalized residents?

Star Apartments (Michael Maltzan Architecture)

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Interior of Star Apartments (Harry Connolly)

Rose Fellow, Theresa Hwang, with resident of the Star Apartments (Harry Connolly)

STAR APARTMENTS | LOS ANGELES CA

BEYOND ONE BUILDING Star represents the evolution of Skid Row Housing Trust’s (SRHT) approach to tackling homelessness; rather than simply providing homes for as many people as possible as quickly as possible, they’ve come to see that supportive housing has immense potential to act as a catalyst for community health. The ground floor health clinic is open to the public, the ground floor retail and offices will add to the economic base, and the building itself inspires pride among neighbors, helping to change stigmas of supportive housing.

Date of Work: 2013 Location: Los Angeles, California Partners:

Awards:

Skid Row Housing Trust Michael Maltzan Architects, Los Angeles Department of Health Services Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Award, 2012 AIA Next LA Design Award, 2012

DESIGN TO UPLIFT The importance of Star goes beyond the functionality and programming of the building, the exterior design and architecture play a critical role in helping residents re-integrate with society. The building not only inspires pride and sense of ownership amongst residents, which can lead to better self-care and upkeep of the building, it also breaks stereotypes about what affordable housing looks like and how it can add aesthetically to the urban fabric of a neighborhood or city.

GREEN DESIGN FEATURES Each unit is prefabricated with materials and finishes that are entirely VOC free, ensuring a non-toxic and healthy environment for residents. The modular construction method helps reduce costs, construction time, and material waste, while also providing a tighter building envelope to ensure greater energy efficiency.

ARCHITECTURE AS AN ECONOMIC FORCE Skid Row Housing Trust believes that supportive housing can be a benefit for both residents and neighborhoods. Star’s ground-floor retail helps provide jobs for locals and increase economic activity. The onsite health clinic is open to anyone in the neighborhood and provides clinical services not only for residents but for many of the homeless living in the area, thus reducing the total costs for ambulance runs and ER/ hospital visits.

THERESA HWANG, ROSE FELLOW 2009 - 2012 Theresa Hwang was an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow from 2009-2012 and then the Director of Community Design and Planning at the Skid Row Housing Trust a non-profit permanent supportive housing organization where she partnered with the architecture firm, Michael Maltzan Architecture on the Star Apartments. Her work has been featured in Architectural Record, the New York Times, Atlantic Cities, Al-Jazeera America, Residential Architect, and other media outlets. She is the Board Chair for the Association for Community Design, was recognized as one of Next City’s Urban Vanguards 2015 and was named in 2016 to the Impact Design Hub’s 40Under40. She is a licensed architect in California and is a LEED accredited professional. Theresa is an adjunct studio professor at Woodbury University and has previously co-taught at the University of Southern California.

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END HOMELESSNESS

How can supportive housing improve a neighborhood?

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All photos of Richardon Apartments (David Baker Architects)

RICHARDSON APARTMENTS I SAN FRANCISCO, CA

MULTIPLE SCALES OF IMPACT Richardson Apartments leverages design as a tool to transform lives, builds new communities, and responds to its community context. Each unit provides safe and secure housing, designed specifically to promote mental and physical health, while shared spaces encourage social interaction and help to foster a supportive community among residents. At the urban scale, Richardson will increase local property values and reduce the total number of people experiencing homelessness in the city.

Date of Work: 2012 Location: San Francisco, California Partners:

Awards:

Community Housing Partners Mercy Housing California David Baker + Partners Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture 2013 Design Awards - Merit, AIA San Francisco AIA/HUD Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing Design

BOOSTING THE LOCAL ECONOMY Richardson includes 2,700 sq.ft of street level shops and restaurants, which will increase economic activity.

Increasing housing density in an area rich with public transportation access promotes efficient city life and plans for smart growth.

ENHANCING PUBLIC SPACE New sidewalks and added bike parking help to make Hayes Valley more pedestrian friendly while new trees add to the aesthetic quality of the neighborhood. The construction process employed only local contractors and the new shops will train and hire local residents.

HELPING TO END HOMELESSNESS Richardson is part of a long term commitment by multiple organizations to help individuals experiencing homelessness transition to a new phase of life.

LAURA SHIPMAN, ROSE FELLOW 2008 - 2011 Laura worked with Community Housing Partners as coproject manager, along with Mercy Housing California, on the development of Richardson Apartments, a permanent supportive housing project designed for formerly homeless individuals. Her work focused on community outreach to local stakeholders, project financing and budgets, services coordination, design review, construction administration, and lease-up preparation.

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FOSTER MORE EQUITABLE AND RESILIENT NEIGHBORHOODS

How do we achieve social equity through the built environment?

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Graphic for the 2014 Bruner Loeb Forum (Mary Hale)

Graphic for Design for Equity 2.0 at ABX16 (Aqsa Butt)

DESIGN FOR EQUITY I BOSTON, MA

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BEGINING THE CONVERSATION The first Design for Equity Forum in 2014 was convened at the Bruner Loeb Forum in partnership with Enterprise Community Partners, Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation, Talbot Norfolk Triangle Neighbors United, Fairmount Collaborative, and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). It assembled local and national practitioners to use Boston as a living laboratory to explore approaches to address inequity, understanding on-the-ground problems and practical solutions.

LOCAL CONTEXT Design for Equity brought participants to Dorchester’s Codman Square neighborhood, where residents face significant equity challenges but have continued to develop community-based solutions. The discussions, workshops, and site tours with community organizers and stakeholders informed our broader national conversation about urban equity.

CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION Design for Equity 2.0 at ABX2016, was hosted in in partnership with 100 Resilient Cities, Mel King Institute, Sustainable Soultions Lab and UMass Boston, NAACP, and City of Boston and consisted of a daylong curriculum exploring how racial and social inequity are manifested in urban planning and the built environment, and the tools designers and practitioners can develop to promote more just and inclusive communities.

Date of Work: 2016 Location: Boston Partners: 100 Resilient Cities NAACP

City of Boston

Mel King Institute

Sustainable Solutions Lab,

University of Massachusetts Boston Date of Work: 2014 Location: Boston Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Partners: Loeb Fellowship

Boston Redevelopment Authority

Codman Square NDC

Fairmount/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative

Talbot Norfolk Triangle Neighbors United

DESIGN FOR EQUITY NOVEMBER 15th & 16th DESIGNFOREQUITY.ORG

WHY NOW? This topic has never been more salient for the City of Boston. The Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity, supported through the work of the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative, recently declared racial inequity as a pressing resilience issue facing the city. The group has continued to convene to collective address the creation of an “equity toolkit” that designers can use to more thoughtfully address issues of equity in their work.

Program cover for Design for Equity 2.0 at ABX16 (Aqsa Butt)

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FOSTER MORE EQUITABLE AND RESILIENT NEIGHBORHOODS

How can design foster love and forgiveness?

Denver Housing Authority

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Thunder Valley CDC

Konkuey Design Initiative

COLLABORATIVE ACTIONS GRANTS I NATIONWIDE

COLLABORATIVE ACTIONS In 2013-2014, with funding from the Fetzer Institute to foster love and forgiveness in their communities, eight Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellows initiated $5,000 community-based collaborative actions. As each community faces unique challenges and has different needs, fellows engaged with community partners to determine the format, reach, and scope of each “collaborative action.� Fellows were mindful of capturing the spirit of local community and harnessing history, language, and common pastimes in the events planned.

IMPACT This approach encourages interaction across cultural and socioeconomic divides and has the potential to foster healing and forgiveness as neighborhoods comes together to envision and build social and physical infrastructure that support community wellbeing.

BUILDING ON SUCCESS In 2016, we expanded on the program and issued 16 new grants to a variety of organizations to host a collaborative action in their community. Collaborative actions are small-scale, co-creative activities focused on implementation. Through a design process that features honest conversations with people about the issues in their community, collaborative actions have the power to promote healing while fostering a sense of place. These actions may include creative placemaking, asset mapping, temporary art installations or community events. They are low cost and short in duration but often fit into a larger community effort.

Date of Work: 2016 Location: Nationwide Partners: A Better City

A Community of Friends

Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative

Brooklyn Movement Center Claretian Associates

East Bay Asian Local DC

Envision da Berry

Kounkuey Design Initiative

Lawrence Community Works

One Sqaure World

Saint Louis University

Slavic Village Development

Sun Valley Youth Center

Thunder Valley C DC

Urban Juncture Foundation Date of Work: 2014 Location: Nationwide Partners: InterIm Community Development Association

Mountain Housing Opportunities

Greenwood-Leflore-Carroll EDC

Carl Small Town Center

Detroit Collaborative Design Center Heartland Housing

Santo Domingo Tribal Housing Authority

Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing

Nuestra Comunidad Devlopment Corp.

Denver Housing Authority

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FOSTER MORE EQUITABLE AND RESILIENT NEIGHBORHOODS

How can a community take ownership of new development?

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All photos of Barlett Events (Harry Connolly)

BARTLETT EVENTS | ROXBURY, MA

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING Bartlett Yard is the site of the former MBTA Bartlett Bus Yard and the future home of Bartlett Place, a major mixed-use development in Roxbury. From MaySeptember 2013, the site was host to a variety of community events as well as Boston’s largest collection of street art. The events were part of Nuestra Comunidad’s strategy to redevelop the 8 acre vacant bus yard into a creative village, aimed at providing opportunities for local small businesses, artists, and community members.

Date of Work: 2013 Location: Roxbury, Massachusetts

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Partners: Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation Alliger Arts FIGMENT Boston

BUILDING THE CREATIVE ECONOMY Bartlett Events gave local street artists a giant canvas the site itself, as well as the opportunity to paint large format pieces for sale. For some artists, this was the first time they were paid for their artwork. Many others used the opportunity and visibility of Bartlett Events to get larger commissions, making a career in the arts more sustainable as a result.

ENGAGEMENT THROUGH THE ARTS Engagement with Roxbury community members through Bartlett Events allowed Nuestra CDC to reach a demographic that doesn’t normally attend community meetings - the youth. It was through Bartlett Events that the Bartlett team was able to connect with young people to hear what they would like to see in their neighborhoods. Through Bartlett Events, Nuestra was able to hear new feedback about the development and about how the Roxbury artist community can be incorporated into the design of Bartlett.

VIBRANT NEW PUBLIC SPACE The development has a public plaza as the focal point in the form of a public plaza. Bartlett Events helped test out ideas, events, art, and community gatherings to gauge what would work in the community, Through engaging programming, local stakeholders developed a vision for the future of the site as vibrant community space rather than a vacant bus depot.

MARK MATEL, ROSE FELLOW 2012 - 2014 Mark Matel was the currently project manager at Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation (NCDC) during his Rose Fellowship . Mark’s primary project at NCDC was the redevelopment of Bartlett Yards. He has worked with NCDC to re-vision Bartlett Yard into a “Creative Village” with sustainability strategies as its driving vehicle and strengthening Bartlett’s communication with the community. During his fellowship he raised $6,000,000+ in pre-development capital and grants for Bartlett, enabling a more engaged design process.

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