The students designed objects specifically for the Chicago Childcare Society on Chicago's South Side. They expressed interest in a reading area for the kids or a designed chair that would be sold in their annual fundraising auction. Students took the opportunity to do both!

In collaboration with designer Isabela Gould at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The class was a plug-in laboratory for the MX network, designed to bridge between one donor institution ready to discharge waste materials, and one charity in need of objects or interior fittings.

The laboratory unfolded in two phases: first, a reasearch phase in which students explore the nature of the donated materials, meet with the client and discuss selected readings on sustainability; second, a design-build phase in which students produce the needed objects to be donated in the end to the charity. A panel of guest speakers, reviewers, and members of the material-exchange group were part of the process.
For more info, see course website: http://www.roguestudios.net/be