SEEDocs TO PREMIERE ONLINE MAY 18, NEW SERIES TO SHOWCASE THE PUBLIC VALUE OF DESIGN
First Winning Project to be Featured, Owe’neh
Bupingeh Preservation Plan, Highlights Value & Impact of Social Economic Environmental Design
(SEED)
The first in a
series of six mini-documentaries (SEEDocs), showcasing the value and
impact of public interest design projects based on the Social Economic
Environmental Design® (SEED) process, will premiere Friday, May 18, 2012, online at www.seedocs.org. The series features the six national
winners of the 2012 SEED Award for Excellence in Public Interest Design, with
the first SEEDoc focusing on the Owe’neh
Bupingeh Preservation Plan and Rehabilitation Project in Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico.

Re-creating a more
vital Pueblo center and reinvigorating cultural
heritage through the rehabilitation of the historic Pueblo core was the focus of the Owe’neh
Bupingeh project, and involved a variety of design issues ranging from cultural
heritage and historic preservation to affordable housing and job training. The successful project is documented in this
first 10-minute SEEDoc, showcasing the people involved and highlighting the
process followed from concept to completion.
Social Economic Environmental Design provides a common
standard to guide, evaluate and measure the social, economic and environmental
impact of design projects. SEED maintains the belief that design can play a
vital role in the most critical issues that face communities and individuals,
in crisis and in every day challenges. To accomplish this, the SEED process
guides professionals to work alongside locals who know their community and its
needs. This practice of "trusting the local" is increasingly
recognized as a highly effective way to sustain the health and longevity of a
place or a community as it develops.
SEED Awards honor extraordinary design projects that have followed the
SEED process and addressed significant social and economic challenges.
A new SEEDoc will be
released at www.seedocs.org the third
Friday of each month from May through October 2012.
SEEDocs, an
initiative of Design Corps, are funded by the Fetzer Institute and produced by
The UpTake.