ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the distinction between design products and design process in architecture. It shows how values-based design thinking has the opportunity to set up various partnerships between architectural education and communities in order to effect change in architectural practice. The chapter highlights the architecture—community relationships, a relationship between Portland State University's School of Architecture and the nonprofit neighborhood organization, the Rosewood Initiative, as a way of rethinking the fallacies of architectural education. In the former, the public as people are rendered generic and universal in their cultural praxis; in the latter, the public as people are defined as consumers of culture in the commodification of the container. The implications of a value-based process of design can translate to a community-based architectural education by allowing plural conceptions of place; and, designing capaciously from the points of view of experts and lay people so that values, priorities, and management are not determined a priori.
