ABSTRACT
After an intensive period of initial research, design, and fabrication in Portland, Oregon, a team of ten designers from Portland State University’s Center for Public Interest Design (CPID) loaded up a large van named Lola (it is usually loaned out to touring bands) with their camping equipment, tools, sketchbooks, and building components for a temporary pavilion they planned to erect at the annual Fourth of July Powwow on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana. The group is made up of young design students from throughout the world joining the effort as interns, CPID Student Fellows, or students pursuing the new Graduate Certificate in Public Interest Design. The Reservation suffered devastating wildfires in 2012 and the goal of the week on the Reservation is to use the three days of the powwow to engage the community about issues of resiliency, meet with project partners, and to finish constructing a barn that was begun the previous year for a family that lost their barn and home in the wildfires.1
