The Civic Design Library is a crowdsourced data set of civic design resources created by global practitioners working at the intersection of design and the public sector.
It aims to showcase the breadth and depth of civic design and offer data and visual formats for peer-to-peer learning and inspiration.
The Team
Our team curates the data and builds this site.
Ariel Kennan
Fellow, Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and Civic Design Curator
Kara Kane
Civic Design Curator
Sarah Brooks
Civic Design Curator
Lou Rosenfeld
Publisher and Founder, Rosenfeld Media
Shameek Rakshit
Student Analyst, Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation, Georgetown University
Kat Meyer
Director, Conferences & Community, Rosenfeld Media
Data & Licensing
We've invested in making great data that's open to use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Want to make your own project? Go for it!
You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The data is housed in Airtableand Softrprovides the front end interface. Resources were added in this version. We're continuing testing for accessibility and usability and welcome any feedback you may have.
Disclosure: We use Bookshop.org affiliate links for many books. When you click through and make a purchase, it helps offset the infrastructure costs for the Civic Design Library.
Launch: December 2021
The CDL was first built using Airtableand Bootstrap, and hosted via Github. It launched with only case studies.
