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The team’s graphic designer also designed the logo (left) for the studio project as a whole. This logo incorporates elements from each of the five building blocks and their logos. This logo and branding can be found on the studio t-shirt (bottom right), the poster for the WELL Conference (below) and the community invitation (right) .

Building Blocks: Journey to Sucess

Building Blocks:

Journey to Success is a design- build studio funded by Mesa Arts Center and The WELL Conference + ASID.

The purpose of this project is to continue the conversation on how to establish a compatibility between design and the built environment, academia and community, theory and practice, and learning and playing. All these, while looking at complex relations that connect interdisciplinary fields related to Building Blocks to Being Well. The studio will be organized as blocks, and each component will contribute to a kit of parts.

Twenty five senior students in Interior Design at Arizona State University worked with 130 6th graders from two Title I schools from the Mesa School District. Together they explored notions about the following:

Learn Culture: Acquire knowledge Create and Play: Explore ideas, bring to life Heal to Grow: Overcome Physical and Emotional obstacles Embrace Community: Reflect and express on who we are Experience our surroundings, find connections Live and Enjoy: Appreciate an enriched experience

Each of these concepts were asked to be designed and fabricated within an 8x8x8 cube that could be transported in a truck and be assembled and disassembled for the Mesa Prototyping Festival III in downtown Mesa and for the WELL Conference at the Princess Fairmont Hotel.

This project has three main goals:

To expose underrepresented youth in design disciplines to design and design thinking while demystifying college for many of them.

To expose the interior design students to the development of empathy and to project the voices of those often unheard through design.

Engage attendees at both events in an interactive- crowdsourcing way.

Learn Culture

Acquire knowledge

Create + Play Explore ideas, bring to life

Heal to Grow

Overcome physical and emotional obstacles

Embrace Community Experience surroundings, find connections

Live + Enjoy Appreciate an enriched experience

Sponsors: Mesa Arts Center, The WELL Conference + ASID ASU Faculty: Milagros Zingoni, Maria Delasotta, Bradley Cantin

Building Blocks to Success

The Spring 2020 interior design senior studio invites you to join us and our Building Blocks to consider the integration of wellness between design

and the built environment, academia and community, theory and practice, and learning and playing.

Saturday March 21 12pm - 8pm Mesa Artspace Lofts 155 S Hibbert, Mesa, AZ 85210

sponsored by the Mesa Arts Center | WELL + ASID in partnership with Lowell and Porter Elementary Schools