about us
Stanley King and Susan Chung are co-authors of the Youth Manual for Sustainable Design: Stanley is a pioneer in public participation and he developed the City on the Wall and co-design process. Susan is a science and biology educator. She explored and articulated how youth participation through co-design relates to ecology and place-based education for teens. Their combined experience in youth engagement enables them to develop lesson strategies that combine co-design with current methods in environmental education.
Together they created a Co-Design Youth Program to help youth participate in the ecological design of the spaces they will ultimately inherit. Recently, the program has enabled youth to participate in
Stanley and Susan are currently researching the connection between co-design and the ecological interactions of communities. They belong to a group of architects, designers, artists and researchers called the Co-Design Group based in western Canada. The Co-design Group is an association of codesign practitioners who have facilitated award winning citizen and youth participation since 1971.
Contact Stanley and Susan: codesignyouthmanual@gmail.com or send us a tweet
