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Title Join the Scrum! Regenerative Environmental for Autism

Summary Host a Design Charette to inform a class project with students from , , and Historic Preservation. The project will repurpose existing buildings into homes for adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Invited guests and stakeholders will include adults with ASD and their families, non‐profit and government housing providers, civic leaders, and local architecture firms. Students will be able to engage with stakeholders to produce that meet their needs.

Duration 2/28/2019 ‐ 2/28/2019

Amount requested $4999.7799999999997

Primary Applicant Julie Irish Interior Design

Fiscal Officer Amanda Youngquist College of Design

Collaborators Andrea Wheeler Architecture Diane Al Shihabi Interior Design/Preservation & Cultural Heritage Mikesch Muecke Architecture/Preservation & Cultural Heritage Nora Ladjahasan Institute for and Outreach Eric Olson Apparel, Events, and Hospitality

Office check notes Follow up info

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY – OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

INCLUSIVE INITIATIVES GRANT 2019

1) Narrative

Title of initiative Join the Scrum! Regenerative for Autism

Overview In Fall 2018 a collaborative team was awarded the College of Design BNIM Regenerative Grant ($9,500). The grant recognized the need to provide suitable homes for young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). After a young adult leaves fulltime education there are few housing options that meet their unique needs. With around 1:59 children being diagnosed with ASD, this is a problem being faced by increasing numbers of young adults and their families. Coupled with this is the need to preserve and protect existing resources in our world, particularly in relation to and regenerative architecture.

Regenerative architecture suggests that buildings could give more than they take from an environment, that is, they are net-positive, not just in terms of energy consumption but they add more than conventional buildings to the multiple social, economic, and environmental contexts of a building. The funded project aims to identify, repurpose, and redesign existing buildings into homes for young adults with ASD. This semester, students in Community and Regional Planning are identifying suitable buildings. Next semester, students in several classes in Architecture, Interior Design and Historic Preservation will be redesigning the buildings into homes for young adults with ASD. The classes will be open to all graduate students and seniors in design.

The element of the project that is currently unfunded which this proposal is seeking funding for is the “design charette” component. A design charette is where a group of , community members, policy makers and other interested parties come together for a short but intensive collaborative “brain storming” session. This format includes everyone to make sure they have a voice. It also moves design ideas and goals forward quickly without a protracted consultation period, as is often the case with design projects. Design goals are reached in a more focused and collaborative way. We are calling our design charette a “scrum” in recognition that it is a hands-on, immersive experience.

The aim of our project is to host and facilitate a one-day scrum. The purpose of the event is to draw students and community members together to consider the housing needs of young adults with ASD. This is a population who are often not directly included in design decisions. Students will be able to use the knowledge gained to apply to their design projects. Invited guests and stakeholders will include ISU students; young adults with ASD and their families; local architecture and design firms; government leaders at the city/town of the buildings identified for repurposing; non-profit housing providers; government housing providers; ISU student housing providers. Targeted stakeholders to invite include, e.g., Autism Society of

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Iowa; LinkedIn Housing and Residential Supports Network by Autism Speaks; Iowa Autism Council; BNIM architecture and design firm. Students will be able to directly engage with stakeholders to help inform their studio projects to design housing for young adults with ASD. This is especially important to find out the views of young adults with ASD and their families and their needs and wants in terms of housing. This is a group who it can be hard to engage with and include, especially for parents who are fulltime caregivers. Bringing all parties together provides students an opportunity for empathy and understanding of diverse views.

At the center of our proposal is our wish to introduce students to a) engagement with real world problems that need solving in our communities, b) a method of research which will have practical applications in professional life, and c) engagement with members of the community with a disability, they will gain a broader perspective of inclusivity and the views of others they may not be familiar with. As students engage with young adults with ASD and their families and other community leaders to find out what they want in terms of housing accommodation, this will directly inform their design projects.

At the end of the event, the keynote speaker on regenerative design will be engaged to speak at an evening event open to all ISU students. Our aim is to include all students so that they can benefit from an awareness of regenerative design and sustainability, key concerns for all students whatever their major.

After the event, students will design their projects using the research information they gained from the event. We expect to have a variety of feasible, regenerative ideas for transforming existing buildings into homes for young adults with ASD. At the end of the semester, there will be a second “extra time” event in which students will present their projects to the participants who attended the “scrum.” Students will gain valuable on the success of their designs. Student projects will be uploaded to the project website so that the rest of the ISU community, the Iowa community, and people interested in regenerative design and housing provision for individuals with ASD can access the ideas.

We are also interested in how the design charette format can be used as a teaching method to bring students and the Iowa community together. At the end of both the “scrum” and the “extra time” event we aim to administer a survey to participants to measure the success of the event. We will also administer an evaluation to students in class at the end of the semester to measure the success of the design charette format as a learning opportunity. We will seek Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval prior to data collection.

The charette could be used for other types of design projects, by other design disciplines, and by other majors such as and business school students. Therefore, after the event, we aim to publish a guide on how to host a design charette type event that can be used by the ISU community.

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a) Objectives

See b) criteria, i) collaborators for identification of collaborators.

Objective Evaluation method When Collaborator(s) Students in Final buildings are selected April/May JI/AW/DA/MM Community & for student projects 2019 Regional Planning identify suitable buildings for regeneration Host design “scrum” Administer end of day survey September Event event to participants to measure Management; NL, effectiveness of the event; IDRO independent data analysis Keynote speaker on Numbers of ISU community September Event regenerative design who attend the event Management at scrum event to be engaged for evening event open to ISU community Host design “extra Administer survey to December JI/AW/DA/MM; NL, time” event participants at end of the IDRO event to measure effectiveness of the event; independent data analysis To use design Teaching evaluation December JENI/AW/DAS/MM; charette as a administered to students to NL, IDRO teaching and measure the effectiveness of learning method for the design charette as a students teaching and learning method; independent data analysis Publish guidelines Event guidelines published December Event on how to host a on ISU website available to Management design charette type the ISU community event

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b) Criteria i. Collaboration

This project is a collaboration between the following faculty in two colleges, College of Design and College of Human :

College of Design: • Julie Irish, PhD, Assistant Professor, Interior Design (JENI) Primary Applicant • Andrea Wheeler, PhD, Architecture (AW) • Diane Al Shihabi, PhD, Associate Professor, Interior Design/Preservation & Cultural Heritage (DAS) • Mikesch Muecke, PhD, Associate Professor, Architecture/Preservation & Cultural Heritage (MM) • Nora Ladjahasan, Assistant Scientist, Institute for Design Research and Outreach (IDRO) (NL)

College of Human Sciences • Eric Olson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management (EO) • Event Management Independent Studies Students

Financial support: Amanda Youngquist, Program Assistant, College of Design

In addition, services will be provided for the event by the ISU community, including students in ISU Catering, ISU MU Graphics Team, and ISU MU Marketing Services. This will provide real world experience for students and expand the reach of the grant.

ii. Impact on the ISU community

1) As a standalone event, this event will demonstrate to members of the autism community, architects, designers, housing providers and policy makers that the ISU community is committed to including vulnerable populations in our work and to the ethos of sustainable and regenerative architecture. This will reflect well on ISU.

2) Students will have the opportunity to engage with a real-world problem in real time and propose workable solutions.

3) Students will hopefully gain empathy for the needs of others.

4) As a teaching method, the steps in creating and hosting a design charette will be detailed in a guide for other disciplines to use. This includes not only other design disciplines but also, for example, students in engineering, , or business management could all benefit from this type of community engagement when faced with an issue.

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5) The design charette method to include a number of different stakeholders to inform a student project can be used in future years with different populations, e.g., living accommodation for seniors with dementia, housing for veterans who are homeless. It could also be used to look at different types of accommodation, e.g., student accommodation. It can be used not only to solve design problems but also to work through issues in other disciplines, e.g., , environmental or policy. This will benefit future students in the ISU community who participate.

iii. Alignment with guiding documents and principles regarding diversity and inclusion

1) Our project holds to the mission of ISU to “create, share, and apply knowledge to make Iowa and the world a better place.” By creating this event, sharing the views of others in our community and using that knowledge to apply to student projects, we aim to make Iowa and states beyond our own a better place for young adults with ASD.

2) We also align with Goal 1, Subgoal 1.3, to “provide learning opportunities to prepare students for lives and careers in a dynamic, global community.” By providing students with a real problem in the community they can take their problem-solving skills and empathy for others in the community into their careers. This could be considered support for metric S1.3A as a “high impact educational activity.”

3) Finally, our project aligns with Goal 4, to “continue to enhance and cultivate the ISU Experience where faculty, staff, students, and visitors are safe and welcomed, supported, included, and valued by the university and each other.” By student engagement with young adults with a disability and their families we want them to feel included in our community, to know that we are aware of some of the issues that they face and that our students want to learn how to support them.

This is supported by Subgoal 4.3, to “create, expand, and invest in opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to connect and build meaningful relations with others while recognizing the multiple identities, perspectives, and developmental differences people hold (aligned with the ACPA NASPA standard for social justice and inclusion). We believe young adults with ASD should have a home in our communities and hope the student projects will provide some ideas and generate discussion for much needed housing solutions.

iv. Innovation

This proposal is innovative in several ways. While the idea of a design charette is not new, the use of the proposal to engage our students with members of the community with ASD and incorporate their views into a student project that can be showcased as what regenerative architecture could accomplish is a novel and ambitious but achievable aim. The proposal to 5

produce a guide on how to host a charette style event will provide other faculty and staff with the opportunity to use the innovation as a teaching and learning method. It is also innovative in that two quite different colleges are involved but have come together to work on this project.

Plan of work/timeline

Date/timeframe Activity description and details Collaborator(s) November 1 – 30 Submit required intent to apply JENI January 2019 Students in CRP begin research DK February 1 Attend required IIG grant workshop JENI March 1 Submit grant application by 8 a.m. JENI Students in CRP present interim report to JENI/AW/ March project team for discussion DAS/MM Set up website domain RED ASD MM (Regenerative Environmental Design for March Autism Spectrum Disorder) to post project information and preparatory to advertise event Identify and appoint Design U/g Research JI/AW/DAS/MM April Assistant to contact potential participants May 1 Receive notification of award decisions JENI May Meet to plan event and order of the day ALL Identify and recruit keynote speaker in AW regenerative design to kick-off the scrum May and speak at a same-day evening event – under-represented? Identify and appoint independent studies EO/Event May students in Event Management to plan the Management event Identify and arrange suitable venue for day Event Management May and evening event Contact supplier to sponsor a sensory room JENI May for individuals with ASD with sensitivities at the event who may need it Develop questions for “scrum”, “extra time” JENI/NL May and student evaluations Submit Request for Preliminary IRB JENI/NL May Determination form to IRB Students in CRP submit final report to JENI/AW/DAS/MM May project team to finalize sites for development in Fall semester May 6 Final Exams week May 11 Commencement

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August 1 Award begins Faculty on site – meet to finalize event ALL August 19 agenda and activities August 26 Classes begin Identify and invite MC (Master of ALL Wk of August 26 Ceremonies) to introduce the event Wk of August 26 Set up website links to register for the event MM Send out evites to potential participants as Event Management Wk of August 26 previously identified ALL/Event September Wk 1 Monthly progress meeting Management Prepare and submit IRB application for JENI/NL September evaluations (if required) Arrange evening keynote speaker event for Event Management September ISU community Design presentation materials, including ISU MU Graphics September posters to advertise keynote event and Team event agenda Print display posters keynote ISU Printing September speaker event Post display posters advertising keynote ISU MU Marketing September speaker event Services September Arrange catering Event Management Arrange sensory room set-up from identified Event Management September sponsor Arrange and purchase materials for design Design u/g students September charette Wk of September Finalize event arrangements ALL 16th/date TBD Saturday Host and facilitate event ALL September 28th/date TBD Saturday Set up venue, host and provide support on Event Management September event day 28th/date TBD Saturday Host and provide support on event day Design u/g students September 28th/date TBD Saturday Administer event evaluation survey Event Management September 28th/date TBD Host keynote speaker to speak in the AW Saturday evening after the event so more students September can learn about regenerative design, open to 28th/date TBD the public September Book venue for “extra time” event Event Management

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ALL/Event October Wk 1 Monthly progress meeting Management Hold post event meeting to evaluate the ALL October event October Data analysis of event survey NL ALL/Event November Wk 1 Monthly progress meeting Management Send out email reminders to event Event Management November attendees to attend “extra time” event November Arrange catering for “extra time” event Event Management ALL/Event December Wk 1 Monthly progress meeting Management Wk of December Host and facilitate “extra time” event ALL 8/date TBD Wk of December Set up venue for “extra time” event Event Management 8/date TBD Wk of December Administer “extra time” event evaluation Event Management 8/date TBD survey December Data analysis of “extra time” event survey NL Administer survey to students to measure JENI/AW/DAS/MM December the effectiveness of design charette as a teaching and learning method December Data analysis of student survey NL December Post student projects to website MM Create Design Charette guide; Design u/g ALL/Event December student to assist with graphics Management/Design u/g student Deposit Design Charette guide to CELT as Event Management December an ISU campus resource December 9-13 Dead Week December 16-19 Final Exams Hold post event meeting to evaluate the ALL December event

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2) Budget and budget justification

Item Funds Request Item cost Detailed item description from other from IIG (total) source(s) To host “scrum” event, accessible Hire of ISU venue, including breakout rooms, Memorial $0 $0 $0 for sensory room, FOC to Union ISU departments Catering for China/linen rental inc. guest tables “scrum” $450.00 and buffet for approx.150 people @ $450.00 $0 event $3/person Catering for Breakfast – ISU Catering “scrum” $148.75 coffee/orange juice for approx. 150 $148.75 $0 event people Catering for Breakfast – ISU Catering bagels for “scrum” $240.50 approx. 150 people @ $18.50/ $240.50 $0 event dozen x 13 Catering for Breakfast – ISU Catering fresh fruit “scrum” $262.50 salad for approx. 150 people @ $262.50 $0 event $1.75/person Catering for Coffee break - ISU Catering “scrum” $118.00 beverages coffee/tea/water for $118.00 $0 event approx. 150 people Lunch - ISU Catering buffet style Catering for lunch, inc. restricted diet items, inc. “scrum” $1875.00 $1875.00 $0 coffee/water, for approx. 150 event people @ $12.50/person Catering for Afternoon break - ISU Catering “scrum” $118.00 beverages coffee/tea/water for $118.00 $0 event approx. 150 people Catering for Afternoon break - ISU Catering “scrum” $136.50 cookie assortment for approx. 150 $136.50 $0 event people @ $10.50/dozen x 13 Fees for use 22% service fee, 10% facility fee on of Memorial $1071.75 $1071.75 $0 catering $3404.25 Union ISU MU Graphics Team design of a

$100.00 handout for the scrum event; design $100.00 $0 of a poster/flyer for evening event Printing flyers to advertise evening speaker event 8.5”x11” x 149 @ Printing $89.50 $.50 ea; conference handout b&w $89.50 $0 double sided printing 8.5”x11” x 150 x 2 @ $.05 ea

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ISU MU Marketing Services to Flyer $50.00 distribute posters to advertise and $50.00 $0 Distribution promote evening speaker event ISU Bookstore marker paper, Event marker pens, pens, notepads, post- $186.28 $186.28 $0 materials it notes for 15 tables; name labels for approx. 150 people Event Plan printing 36”x24” x 2 x 15 tables $135.00 $135.00 $0 materials @ $.75/sq.ft Costs for $1000.00 For scrum keynote and evening $1000.00 $0 speaker event BNIM Grant Data analysis of “scrum” event evaluation forms x approx. 150 $1000.00 participants; data analysis of “extra Institute of Costs for $1000.00 time” event evaluation forms x $0 Design data analysis approx. 150 participants; data Research & analysis of student learning x Outreach approx. 60 participants “Scrum” event evaluation forms x approx. 150; “extra time” event Printing evaluation forms x approx. 150; evaluation $18.00 $18.00 $0 student learning evaluation forms x forms approx. 60, 8.5”x11” 1 sheet single sided @ $.05 ea To identify appropriate ASD, Costs for U/g community, non-profit, state and Research local government officials to invite $1600 $1600.00 $0 Assistant/s to participate in the event; to attend BNIM Grant in Design and host scrum event, pro rata 4hrs/week x 16 @ $12/hr Use of College of $0 To host “extra time” event $0 $0 Design $118.00 $100 x 2 Catering for ISU Catering beverages Interior $118.00 “extra time” coffee/tea/water for approx. 150 $0 Design event people class catering budget TOTAL FUNDING REQUESTS TOTAL EST $8717.78 FROM GRANT PROGRAM AND $4999.78 $3718.00 COST OTHERS

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