Kenton Woman’s Village V2

Designing for Underserved Community

Project Summary

Project Level: Master Level

Project type: Public Interest Design/ Design Built

Year: Spring 2019

Location: Kenton Portland, Oregon

Main Tools: Rhinoceros 6, Photoshop, Illustrator

Team: Todd Ferry, Daniel Baldwin,Valeria Degutis, Thomas Fentner, Brandon Parker, and Robert Wilson

The Kenton Women’s Village is a transitional housing community in North Portland for houseless women. This project focuses on designing community space and placemaking elements for the villagers to use in their daily lives.This success is a result of group meetings, community meetings, on-site decision makings, and supports from school and communities. In order to complete this project, we partnered with few organizations in Portland; The Rebuilding Center, CityRepair, Catholic Charities, AmeriCorps VISTA, and The North Portland Tool Library.

Village Comics

Drawing People who Experiencing the Village Program

Project Summary

Project Level: Professional with Portland State’s Homelessness Research & Action Collaboration

Project type: Research / Design Guide Book

Year: 2022

Location: Portland, Oregon

Main Tools: Adobe Fresco, Indesign

This comic stories are part of the Village Research & How-To Guide.While we made design guideline and diagrams explaining how to build a tiny village for transitional housing, we thought that comic portraits of village stakeholders could capture the voices of villagers and others who are involved in the village project using the creative process of the portraiture, choosing how participants wish to be represented. These images can tell their stories without relying on typical photos which can feel limiting or even exploitative.

I am all for outside support achieve their goals, but I'm dictating how someone else own houses don't have to d same rights and privileges should be extended to people lived in both a self-governed managed village, and the sel much more supportive of a my identities as a disabled, multicultural, Native Ameri became even more evident injured and had challenges for visitors to come help me managed village.

- RavenWolf SchmickJustice "Feather"