FIND YOUR WAY HOME

Curriculum: Advanced Architecture Studio, Fall 2023
Professor: Janette Kim
Studio Partner: Dixie Fire Collaborative and LMNOP.
Related Programming: After the Wildfire event at CCA.
Students: Anastasha Aco, Xavier Bermudez, Francisco Calderon, Sebastian Cartright, Saulo Flores, Jennifer Guo, Melissa L Gomes, Chloe Hicks, Alexandra Huerta, Natalie Sofia Schtakleff, and Dipti Trivedi.

This design studio created a card game called “Find Your Way Home” to prompt conversations with community members in Greenville and Canyon Dam, California. This is one of several architectural design studios at California College of the Arts working in partnership with community members in Greenville and Canyon Dam—two towns in Indian Valley that were nearly destroyed by the Dixie Fire. This semester, we focused on the design of affordable, workforce housing. To see our design work, please see this page.

We’ve played the game three times—twice during reviews at CCA with guest critics and once with community members at “The Spot” in Greenville (October 2023). The game asks participants to answer a few questions about their attitudes towards housing and then matches them with students who are working on projects with similar values. The game helped to foster lively and frank conversations, and informed the students’ understanding of what home means to residents of. Greenville.