PLAYING WELL WITH OTHERS

Since 2008, GAC has been working in and around the village of Masoro in Rwanda. Our projects have varied in scale and complexity, but each has focused on collaborative design practices through community engagement, research and education. Playing Well With Others describes an approach to design that has grown from the relationships we have made with other people, places, environments, materials, cultures and techniques. It is an approach that has allowed us to develop a unique form of agency for designers and those we work with. Playing Well With Others presents three outputs from this approach: Relationships, Products, and Processes. Relationships are illustrated through a Project Map, where four projects are used to reveal the connections between individuals, organizations, institutions, governments and our practice. Products shows the projects that have resulted from this network through scaled diagrams and drawings. Processes is a series of films which show the people we have worked with and the various ways they have participated in these four projects.