A new group called Public Interest Design has released its first “
Public Interest Design 100,” an infographic list of national design leaders--trained designers and others--who deal with public policy issues. And it includes a couple of local notables in the field.
Eric Muschler, a program officer at the locally based
McKnight Foundation, has made big strides in affordable housing, while Thomas Fischer, dean of the
University of Minnesota College of Design, is “one of the foremost writers and thinkers in architecture and design,” it states.
On its web site Public Interest Design describes the attention the list has already garnered: “We watched our inbox explode; literally hundreds of people have alternately described it as a “milestone” for the movement or a 'resource' or 'reference' for those in the field and working to support it,” the piece states. “But we are most heartened to have had the opportunity to recognize so many amazing people (in the U.S. alone, as a global edition will follow), doing such important work in the world.”