Design for Social Impact
The senior capstone Art 425 section with Eve Faulkes is entitled Design for Social
Impact, and uses a Human-Centered Design approach to working with communities that
have included a Palestine-Israel agricultural collaboration, communities in El Salvador
through an NGO, towns in the Monongahela National Forest and other state and local
communities. We work often in partnership with other disciplines as a team, co-designing
the means to share stories, amplify and empower marginalized voices, or even to help
start new projects to help migrate an economy from extraction to recreation. Place-making
and difference-making are the goals as well as to develop visual products that have
included exhibits, artists books, branding, murals, infographics, conferences, events,
interpretive signage, web sites, package design and more. The process and relationship-building
culminate in a story of the semester as a portfolio piece.
Eligibility
This course is open to all School of Art and Design majors.
Undergraduate course: ART 425
Faculty Contact
Eve Faulkes, Professor of Art
eve.faulkes@mail.wvu.edu
