Sébastien Proulx
2018
Sébastien Proulx plans to design and build rolling carts that will serve as communal resource centers for Design students in Hayes Hall, making scrap pieces from large design projects available to be reused and recycled by other students.
2019
Dr. Proulx will redesign the research portion of students’ capstone project, which will result in the creation of a digital newspaper supported by Wordpress. The live nature of the site will allow students to more easily update over the duration of their project, as well as support the inclusion of a wider range of materials.
2020
Racial Justice Grant
Dr. Proulx will build a framework for existing resources by choosing project topics to advance reflection around racial justice. In addition, all projects selected for the senior thesis will be required to include issues pertaining to diversity.
Cohort:
2018, 2019, and 2020
Campus:
Columbus
College / Department:
Department of Design
Course(s) Impacted:
DESIGN 5200 Design Research for Industrial Design 3
Savings:
$1,600
Students Impacted:
36
News Articles:
Funded by the Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) grant program, Lending Libraries not only save students money and time, but encourage recycling of frequently used materials.
Since 2018, Associate Professor Sébastien Proulx has been using Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) grants to reimagine his courses in the Department of Design. Proulx is using his 2020 Racial Justice grant to add a course module around decolonizing design, a discipline that is traditionally Eurocentric. Proulx hopes to help make diversity and ethnic issues a normal part of the conversation and study of design, rather than an afterthought.
