Design Assistance Teams: The R/UDAT Model

Authors

  • Jerome Ernst
  • Blake Bolton
  • Mark Hinshaw
  • David Markley

Keywords:

Community development, architecture, planning, politics, volunteer

Abstract

The panel session presents and discusses the concept of Design Assistance that has emerged from the American Institute for Architects thirty-year history of organizing Regional/Urban Design Assistance Teams. A RlUDAT is a grassroots approach to community development issues. The program combines local resources with the expertise of a multidisciplinary team of nationally recognized professionals to identify ways to encourage desirable change in a community. The panel will discuss the strengths and limitations of the approach and consider how the model could be applied to other social and technical contexts.

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Published

1998-01-01

Issue

Section

Panel Session 3