Scoring Collective Creativity and Legitimizing Participatory Design

Randolph T. Hester is Director of the Center for Ecological Democracy, Durham, North Carolina; Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley; and a Founder of SAVE International. An award-winning designer, Hester's built works in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Manteo and Raleigh, North Carolina, Los Angeles, California, and Tainan, Taiwan set precedents for democratic design, environmental justice, and conservation biology. His writing includes classic books on participatory design: Neighborhood Space, Community Design Primer, Democratic Design in the Pacific Rim, Design for Ecological Democracy, and the forthcoming Inhabiting the Sacred. He presently codesigns projects in Fukuoka, Shanghai, Incheon, and Chiayi to save the endangered black-faced spoonbill and related cultures from extinction and works with Durham city staff on park designs to revitalize downtown