An integral part of the CAP:IC (College of Architecture and Planning: Indianapolis Center) mission is to provide community outreach and service activities to neighborhoods and other organizations while offering students invaluable immersive learning experiences.
Assistance from CAP:IC is customized to the particular need of the neighborhood, community, or organization and varies in terms of duration, resources, and project deliverables. Where possible, CAP:IC also partners community projects with other local resources and organizations. Common ways CAP:IC helps communities include:
- participating on boards, design juries, and task forces
- academic design studios and classes undertaking a community design or planning issue as a class project
- community design charrettes that quickly analyze a design issue and develop a series of alternative visions
- community education, visioning exercises, workshops, and trainings
- research activities, including demographic research and best-practice research
- field-work, including building exterior building condition and land use inventories
- grant-supported research or studies
- community initiative support.
There are some requests that typically do not fall within our mission, including:
- architectural services, including detailed building plans, structural evaluation, landscape plans, etc.
- request for proposals (CAP:IC does not typically respond to a request for proposal that is also distributed to professional firms.)
- legal documents, codes and ordinances without a substantial research or community engagement component
- market or economic studies
- finished drawings, working drawings, or construction drawings.
CAP:IC projects are typically externally funded by a partnering organization or through a grant source. While affordable, CAP:IC must recover costs associated with most projects and can work with neighborhoods and organizations on funding strategies.
To discuss how CAP:IC might assist your neighborhood, community, or organization, contact Brad Beaubien, director.