Creative Ideation
Participatory Design
Strategic Design
Community Programming Toolkit
A collaborative design project between a team of multidisciplinary designers and participant-experts to implement a circular food economy system at Scadding Court Community Center in downtown Toronto. Together through interviews and creative ideation, we co-created a program strategy that “closes the loop” on existing circular food practices and opportunities for long-term program expansion, enrichment, and autonomous community activism.
This process of critical play gave way to a concrete set of deliverables. Including a planning toolkit and event prototype and a formal visualization of various elements and programs of centre.
The design team created a modular card game based on opportunities we had identified in a series of brainstorm sessions. The aim of the game is to run a successful close-loop event or market out of Scadding Court’s existing facilities and program inputs and outputs.
Identifying Gaps - Visualizing People and Programs
Circular Food Economy
Design Collaborators: Kidist Workneh Ayalew, Trae Gallemit-Fraser, and Osebhahiemen Okoigun
SCCC Collaborators: Gabriella Illuatre, Michael Turong and Tamara Sabarini.
This map features a fraction of the complexity of SCCC and their impact, it became the base from which the team would go to generate ideas for how to collaboratively identify opportunities to produce a tangible and sustainable deliverable given our design team’s functional limits.
Deliverables