I believe it is critical to build socially driven practice into student experiences. In this project, participants in the UCO student design studio, Inktank, became social change agents, utilizing the emotive tactile power of the letterpress as a medium to promote positive change.
I thought this project would be a small way for students to become engaged in Design for Good. What I didn’t foresee, however, was how deeply the students would become engaged, expanding their ideas both in and out of the classroom.
Six Central design students took the ideas they created for this project, expanded them, and applied for on-campus grant funds to execute the expansions. I am pleased to say that all six received on-campus grants to implement expanded ideas and designs that resulted from the SAVE. TEACH. FIX. CHANGE. project.
The Bite was an exhibition of student work that highlighted the results of their grants.
students engaged were: Ti Nguyen, Haley Spradlin, Daltyn Moeckel, Autumn Miller, Maranda Thurm, and Lauren Mayhew.
