Ann Yoachim in Conversation with Mark Bess

Ann Yoachim is the Director of the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design and a Professor of Practice at Tulane School of Architecture and the Built Environment. She has 20+ years of experience building partnerships across campus-community boundaries to amplify community voice and support meaningful change. As an educator, scholar and administrator, she is focused on facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and shaping built, natural and social environments that impact health and wellness in rural and urban settings. She and discussant Mark Bess with talk about the collaborative design processes between students, faculty and non-profits organizations and their constituents, how projects are acquired, engagement and participatory design methods, and constraints that arise in public interest design projects.