Professional Practice
Open Call: Case Studies in Design
Date: 4/11/2025 - 4/24/2025
Type: Call for Papers / Submissions
Location(s): International
Description:
Case Studies in Design is a new effort coordinated by PennPraxis, a center at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design dedicated to the translation of theory into praxis (or action), to create opportunities for community and design leaders to think together about ways to catalyze transformational design, planning, and place-keeping from the ground up. The goals are to learn from ambitious projects designed in community, to share knowledge and experience through dialogue and a public library of case studies, and to train ourselves for new practices of creative, collective action. We hope to build conversation among thinkers and doers in community organizations, movements, public agencies, schools, and the architecture, landscape, planning, heritage and art fields.
Case Studies in Design will support 5 case study writers in 2025 with a fee and expense allowance of $50,000 per author to research, write, and curate or create illustrations for a case study over a period of 8 months. Applications will be reviewed as they come in until the deadline at 12pm on April 24, 2025.