Bryan Bell Editor & Author

Lisa M. Abendroth is a professor in the Communication Design program at Metropolitan State University of Denver in Colorado, USA. She is a SEED Network founding member and a recipient of the SEED Award for Leadership in Public Interest Design. Her work focuses on the social, economic, and environmental impacts of design created within the contexts of underserved people, places, and problems. Abendroth is a coeditor of the Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues (2016).　 Bryan Bell founded Design Corps in 1991 with the mission to provide the benefits of design for the 98 percent without architects. Bell has published three books on public interest design. His work has been supported by the American Institute of Architects Latrobe Prize and through a Harvard Loeb Fellowship. His designs have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Bell holds degrees from Princeton University, USA, and Yale University, USA. He teaches at North Carolina State University, USA.