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As of this writing in January of 2018, Puerto Rico remains beset by an ongoing financial crisis that has shaken the island economically, socially and politically since late 2005. This situation was made much worse on September 20, 2017, when the island was devastated by Hurricane María, an event that caused this crisis to become a humanitarian one as well. In view of this complex — and so­ cio­economically staggering — situation, Puerto Rican designers are finding that they must recon­ sider their social, economic and, in some cases, political roles and adapt to the island’s new daily realities. This case study explores the findings of an architectural educator and a design researcher who were prompted by the current economic climate to produce a convivial a project to assist fellow creatives as they attempted to navigate the ebb and flow of the Puerto Rican economy and its short­ and long­term effects on the daily lives of Puerto Rican citizens. This project was planned to meet two goals. The first was to provide a means to explore and experiment with collaborative methodologies. The second was to teach non­designers and practitioners how they might apply these methodologies to provide relief to particular population groups around the island who were Copyright © 2018, Dialectic and the AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC). All rights reserved. experiencing difficult socio­economic and socio­political circumstances. It is the authors’ conten­ tion that employing the design methodology of co­creation b could be an effective means to allow groups of citizens working with designers to tackle day­to­day, community­based, social problems by allowing them to work on locally rooted, transformative projects. To demonstrate the results of this kind of collaboration, the authors organized the first exhi­ bition documenting the positive outcomes of community and participatory design processes ever held in Puerto Rico: “Listening to Their Voices” (“Escuchando las Voces”). In 2015 an invitation to submit documentation of works that utilize either or some combination of both community and participatory design was sent to urban planners, artists, designers, and architects across the island. The exhibition organizers (two of whom are authors of this piece) received 15 submissions that documented projects undertaken in various locations around Puerto Rico by individual (or groups of) architects, social scientists, designers or artists. “Listening to their Voices” provided an opportu­ nity to share critical information and experiences about these collaborative design approaches with a wider audience. Additionally, it would afford opportunities to survey the processes practitioners formulate and operationalize to create the knowledge and the skills necessary to address the effects of the by then 12­year­long financial crisis on the island’s various populations. “Listening to Their Voices”opened in April 2017 and was suspended in September 2017 due to the damage wrought across Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Despite this, the authors still felt that sharing the knowledge they were able to construct as they prepared the contents of this exhibition could prove useful. The questions that framed the authors’ inquiries regarding how and why par­ ticipatory and community design could positively affect public policy change in an environment as economically bereft as Puerto Rico have yielded beneficial insights about how these processes could generalize to similar situations worldwide. Despite the problems the authors of “Listening to Their Voices” faced due to the hurricane, it is the knowledge they gained during the process of conceptu­ alizing and realizing this exhibition that is of greatest import.

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The Landscape of Community and Participatory Design in Puerto Rico: A Critical Examination of the Effects of Attempting to Facilitate "Listening to Their Voices," ("Escuchando las Voces") the Island’s First Exhibition of Community and Participatory Design