If:Then, Assessing the Impacts of 20 Years of a University-Based Community Design Center
ACSA 112th Annual Meeting: Disrupters on the Edge, Yoachim, A., Welty, E.T., Hansen, M., & Jenisch, N
Publications and Press
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Publications
Articles + Papers
A Replicable Model for Educating Community Architects
ACSA Annual Meeting: Disrupters on the Edge., Deceuninck, M,Taylor Welty, E., Paidakaki, A. & Van Den Broeck, P.
Public Interest Design, Pragmatism, and Potentials in a Postdiluvian City.
Yoachim, A., Welty, E. T., & Jenisch, N. (2020). Journal of Architectural Education, 74(1), 110–118
Collaborative Design; Supporting Lasting Social ChangeBottom-Up Social Change
Yoachim, A. Welty, E.T, & Jenisch, N. (2019) ACSA Intersections Proceedings
Design-Build Studio Outcomes: Researching Potential vs Practice; ACSA Teachers Conference, Practice of Teaching
Welty, E.T., Yoachim, A. & Hogans, A (2019) ACSA Teachers Conference, Practice of Teaching – Teaching of Practice: The Teacher’s Hunch
Refining Process, Expanding Practice: Public Interest Design Fieldnotes from the South
Welty, E.T, 106th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, The Ethical Imperative Annual Meeting Proceedings
‘Designers, Citizens, and Citizen-Designers; Charting New Modes of Engagement, Collaboration, and Project Outcomes at Tulane City Center’
Welty, E.T., Hansen, M. & Mobley, S. (2016). ACSA National Conference Proceedings, Shaping New Knowledges.
Scale and Its Implications; Working out:Thinking While Building 2 web conference
Taylor, E.
Recovery to Resilience: Finding a Transdisciplinary Approach to Community-Based Design
Jenisch, N., & Mobley, S. (2024). Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, 2(2), 99–116.
Radical Incrementalism: An Open Letter in Defense of the Small
Taylor Welty, E. (2013). Oz.
Books
Smallx20: Twenty Years of Collaborative Design in New Orleans
Hansen, M., Jenisch, N, Yoachim, A. Welty, E.T ISBN: 196651509X
‘Hollygrove Shade Water Pavilion,’; Fabric[ated]
Ed. Stonorov, T. Routledge Kinnard, J. Keil, I, Jenisch, N., Ed. Stonorov, T. Routledge. Ebook ISBN9781003138471
Collaborating for Change in New Orleans: Small Center for Collaborative Design
Hansen, M., Taylor, E.(2018) Bell, B., Abendorth, L, (Eds.) Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies, Routledge, ISBN-13 : 978-1317238065
Reports
2024–2025 Annual Report
2023–2024 Annual Report
2022–2023 Annual Report
2019-2021 Annual Report
2018–2019 Annual Report
2017–2018 Annual Report
2016–2017 Annual Report
2015–2016 Annual Report
Fellowship Booklets
2020 PID Fellowship Booklet
2020 PID Fellowship Foldable Zine
2019 PID Fellowship Booklet
2018 PID Fellowship Booklet
2017 PID Fellowship Booklet
2016 PID Fellowship Booklet
2015 PID Fellowship Booklet
2014 PID Fellowship Booklet
Press
2019
Pilot program aims to update 1960s housing stock in Terrytown
2018
Sites of Resistance Chronicles New Orleans History of Dissent
2017
Grow Dat Youth Farm, Tulane City Center
2017
Ace Hotel, Sophie B. Wright School Among Winners of AIA New Orleans Architecture Awards
2017
New Custom-Designed Benches Raise Spirits of Homeless Men at Ozanam Inn
2017
New, More Welcoming Respite Spot at Ozanam Inn
2017
Architecture Students Bring Life to Local Shelter
2017
Adam Savage’s Maker Tour: Small Center for Collaborative Design
2017
Sites of Resistance in New Orleans
2017
Teaming up for a healthier neighborhood
2016
Affordable Housing Exhibit pops up at Tulane City Center
2015
Creating “Permanently Affordable” Rental Housing in New Orleans
2015
As New Orleans Recovers, Will The Dew Drop Inn Swing Again?
2015
A Tribute to the Big Chief: Donald Harrison Sr.’s Family Turn Their Yard into a Mardi Gras Indian Cultural Center
2015
City program breathes life into Bayou Road, one of New Orleans’ oldest thoroughfares
2015
Bayou Road Buildings Get Facade Improvements
2015
New Orleans Street Performer Guide Looks to Protect Musicians, Clarify Law
2015
After Katrina, Tulane’s Architecture School became a Community Builder
2015
New Orleans Opens First Official Skatepark in Gentilly Neighborhood
2015
$350,000 Skateboard Park, ‘The Parisite,’ Opens in Gentilly
2015
Check It Out: New Orleans Opens Parisite Skate Park — the First Public Skate Park in City’s History
2015
Mayor Landrieu Opens New Orleans’ First Public Skate Park
2015
New Parisite Skateboard Park, a $350,000 Project, Opens Saturday in Gentilly
2015
First Public Skate Park Comes to Gentilly
2015
Parisite Skate Park Officially Opens in New Orleans
2015
Parisite Ushers in a New Era of NOLA Skate Culture
2015
How Katrina Sparked a Black Skateboarding Renaissance in New Orleans
2014
Ride New Orleans Calls on RTA to Build a Public Transportation Center in the CBD
2014
Demonstration Leads RTA to Reveal Project Plans
2014
Busy Canal Street Bus Stop Lacks Infrastructure for Riders
2014
Circle Food Store shuttered after Hurricane Katrina reopens
2014
Circle Food Store opens again after eight-year struggle to rebuild
2014
Algiers Vietnamese Community Planning Neighborhood Park
2014
Dew Drop Inn to reopen
2014
Iconic Central City landmark to be resurrected
2014
Storytelling Project Fosters Neighborhood Cohesion in Post-Katrina New Orleans
2014
New Orleans announces $1 million in business-facelift money for blighted corridors
2014
Hurricane recovery gave New Orleans reason to band together to offer more healthful food
2014
Out of Desert Dust, a Miracle on a Shoestring
2014
New Orleans Parisite Skatepark gets City Planning Commission Approval
2014
This 7th Ward Skate Park Comes with a Water Management Plan
2014
Parisite Skate Park Plans Are Set to Roll in Gentilly
2013
Tulane University Builds Big Chief’s Abode
2013
Urban Oases
2013
Best New Architecture; 5 Blueprints to Success
2013
Fighting Floodwater to Grow A Garden and a Healthy New Orleans
2013
With Some Help From Tulane, a Community Garden Sprouts Into a Hub for Learning About Food and the Environment
2012
An Urban Farm Puts New Orleans Teens to Work
2012
Grow Dat Youth Farm Nurtures Leaders
2011
Healthy Foundation
2011
Cultural, health, education programs find home with Guardians Institute’s new building
2011
Grow Dat Youth Farm nurtures young leaders amid planting
2011
Hollygrove Greenline Plots Improvements
2010
Circle Food Store Owner Presents Plans to City Council
2010
Saving Circle Food Store
2010
Transforma New Orleans 2005-2010
2009
Insurgent Architecture: An Alternative Approach to Design-Build
2009
An Unsentimental Education
2009
URBANbuild: The Fourth Generation
2008
Charting New Orleans Everday Landmarks
2008
“Architecture School”
2008
Giving Shelter: Students Scramble to Design and Construct a New Orleans House
2008
‘Architecture School’: Rebuilding New Orleans on Reality TV
2008
“Architecture School” Reality Show Premieres on Sundance
2008
Tulane Nears Completion on Third New Orleans House
2007
Reinventing New Orleans
2007
“URBANbuild II” Exhibition
2007
Rebuilding New Orleans, Post Katrina Style
2007
URBANbuild Students Bring Hope to New Orleans
2006
Design for the Other 90%
2006
“URBANbuild I” Exhibition
2006
URBANbuild Exhibit
2006
URBANbuild.designBUILD studio work
2006