Dick & Rick: A Visual Primer for Social Impact Design

  • Made By CUP With:
  • Community Partners

Helping designers lead better community-engaged design practices

More and more people are practicing some form of community-engaged design, social impact design, or human-centered design. Whatever you call it, are there right and wrong ways to do it?

The Equity Collective, a group of practitioners in the field, worked with CUP and illustrator Ping Zhu to create a tongue-in-cheek storybook that shines a light on how good community-engaged design practices can not only create good projects, but also advance social justice, and how poor practices are hurting not only the field, but the communities it claims to serve.

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Project Collaborators

CUP

Christine Gaspar
Matt Ledwidge

Community Partners

Department of Places
Theresa Hwang

Studio O
Liz Ogbu

Illustrator

Ping Zhu



Special Thanks

Oscar Nuñez, Mark Torrey, and the other members of the Equity Collective: Barbara Brown Wilson, University of Virginia; Jess Garz, Surdna Foundation; Nicole Joslin, Austin Community Design & Development Center; Katie Swenson, Enterprise Community Partners; and Jess Zimbabwe, Rose Center for Public Leadership.

Product Details

16-page, 4.25" x 3.25" booklet

Funding Support

Support for this project was provided by the Surdna Foundation.