The Long Beach Community Design Center, along with planning colleagues James Rojas and Vidal Marquez, held a project-based model-building workshop at the Billie Jean King Library. The workshop aimed to introduce urban planning and design thinking to high school educators from CSU Long Beach and Long Beach library staff to incorporate it into their STEAM Ecosystem Expansion Demonstration (SEED) program. The SEED program is a summer design camp for 7th and 8th graders that includes:
Foundational Workshops, which give students an introduction to the design thinking process and instill core 21st century skills, focusing on collaboration, empathy and ideation.
Discovery Workshops, designed and led by guest educators from the community, offer students new perspectives and pathways, as well as the opportunity to apply their foundational skills on a variety of mediums and practices.
Design Thinking Workshops, a culminating project-based experience that will challenge students to ideate and create a prototype design for a real person over the course of three Saturdays.
