PROJECT TITLE: PRODUCTIVE PUBLIC SPACE
TERM: 1.15.2008 – 4.15.2008
PROJECT AREA: LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT
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Chelina Odbert and Jennifer Toy are founding members of the Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI, www.kounkuey.org).Odbert and Toy formed KDI as an alternative to standard client/patron models that would address the relevancy of design practice to low income settlements in the developing world. Their goal was to create a vehicle through which to identify socially and environmentally urgent projects, and work with local communities to design and implement solutions. Odbert graduated from Claremont McKenna College and received her MUP from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Toy graduated from Harvard College in the History of Science and has worked as a science journalist. She received her MLA/MUP from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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