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Program Information
Past Partners and Projects
Adaptive Fashion
In partnership with the Curb Center’s Art of Healing Exposition, Alex Sargent Capps, & The Wond’ry at Vanderbilt, students collaborated to generate innovative solutions for individuals with disabilities.
Community Gardens
In partnership with VU Community Gardens, students considered how to tackle the issue of garden surplus in a way that addressed food inequity in Nashville.
Fiber Arts Build Lab: Sustainable Fashion
The Sustainable Fashion team aimed to collaborate with the Wond’ry’s Fiber Arts Build Lab in creating a website that educates and increases awareness of sustainable fashion, helping legitimize the issue on college campuses.
Hands On Nashville: Disaster Resilience
Hands On Nashville Disaster Resilience Project addressed the problem of spontaneous volunteers from all over the city and surrounded states acting in unorganized, uncoordinated ways, as seen in events like flash floods. The project located 12 volunteer reception centers in the city of Nashville to create a Go-Kit/process for establishing future volunteer reception centers.
Mayor’s Office: Nashville Climate Challenge
The Social Changemaker’s team collaborated with the Mayor’s Office to support the sustainability challenge for Nashville’s private sector. The final deliverable was a design framework for the Nashville Climate Change website, which converts the information they have compiled into an easily communicable format that participating businesses can reference.
Title IX
The Social Changemaker’s team partnered with Title IX to increase the accessibility of the Title IX Office’s Sexual Misconduct Resources through an app.
Waste Diversion
In alignment with the Zero Waste Master Plan approved by the Mayor’s office, students considered how city officials, debris recyclers, and prospective services might address the processing capacity, creating demand, policies, and a profitable business model or process for mixed building material diversion.