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PennPraxis Design Fellows take on the real world with design solutions
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Matt Miller, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning, working on an engagement strategy for The Park at Penn’s Landing. (Pre-pandemic image: PennPraxis)

PennPraxis Design Fellows take on the real world with design solutions

PennPraxis has expanded the scope of experience for graduate students since its founding in 2001, and now 80 Design Fellows are involved in ambitious interdisciplinary design projects.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Design faculty and Art for Philadelphia raise money against police brutality
Open magazine with a photo of Shirley Chisholm on the left and an article titled The Ticket That Might Have Been: Shirley Chisholm on the right.

Sharon Hayes, “President Chisholm,” 2020. (Image: Weitzman School)

Design faculty and Art for Philadelphia raise money against police brutality

Weitzman faculty members David Hartt and Sharon Hayes are among a group of Philadelphia-based artists participating in Art for Philadelphia, a fundraising initiative to support those protesting against police brutality.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Cultivating robust civil dialogue during times of unrest
Chris Satullo, Lia Howard, and Surayya Walters in class.

Chris Satullo, Lia Howard, and Surayya Walters in the class titled Can We Talk?  (Pre-pandemic image: Eric Sucar)

Cultivating robust civil dialogue during times of unrest

Through the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program, Penn students are learning how to reflect on and engage with subjects like the coronavirus pandemic and the criminal justice system.
In lockdown, a neighborhood opens up

In lockdown, a neighborhood opens up

Francesca Russello Ammon of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design spoke about how communities have become closer during the pandemic. “The scale of life has changed,” she said. “Your world has shrunk. The neighborhood and the block become really important.”

‘Expanding what it means to be a class’
Allison Lassiter, Randall Mason, Michael Luegering, Joshua Mosley, Richard Farley, and Michael Henry.

Clockwise from top left: Allison Lassiter, Randall Mason, Michael Luegering, Joshua Mosley, Richard Farley, and Michael Henry. (Image: Weitzman School News)

‘Expanding what it means to be a class’

Allison Lassiter, Randall Mason, Michael Luegering, Joshua Mosley, Richard Farley, and Michael Henry had to work quickly and creatively to shift their classes from a hands-on learning experience to a virtual one.

From the Weitzman School of Design

The best trees to reduce air pollution

The best trees to reduce air pollution

Stephanie Carlisle of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design spoke about high hopes for the use of urban trees to mitigate air pollution. “Some designers have a tendency to think in terms of objects rather than a complex ecological system,” she said. “But without a holistic understanding of urban ecosystems, the risk is to do more harm than good.”

Dinner and a movie with Weitzman School’s Megan Ryerson
A professor and two children eating from bowls at a kitchen counter with a laptop computer open in front of them.

Professor Megan Ryerson in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design connects with her students by inviting them, remotely, to dinners and movies with her family.  

Dinner and a movie with Weitzman School’s Megan Ryerson

Striving to keep her students engaged, Megan Ryerson of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design invites them to virtually join in her family’s activities, including dinner discussions and movie nights with transportation-themed films.
Giant concrete umbrellas could protect the lucky ones

Giant concrete umbrellas could protect the lucky ones

Daniel Aldana Cohen of the School of Arts and Sciences expressed skepticism about a proposed design for adaptable seawalls on beaches. “A lot of new developments that had a basically a harder infrastructure quality ended up splashing water onto adjacent places and flooding them more,” he said. “So with this project, if you imagine this as a defense of one beach, even if it’s successful, it’s going to probably cause more flooding...next door.”