SEED: Social Economic Environmental Design® provides a common
standard to guide, evaluate and measure the social, economic and
environmental impact of design projects. SEED maintains the
belief that design can play a vital role in the most critical
issues that face communities and individuals, in crisis and in
every day challenges. To accomplish this, the SEED® process
guides professionals to work alongside locals who know their
community and its needs. This practice of "trusting the local"
is increasingly recognized as a highly effective way to sustain
the health and longevity of a place or a community as it
develops. The name "SEED" was first proposed during a 2005
meeting at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where
architects, designers, and other diverse experts in the public
interest design movement convened to evaluate how design could
respond to the triple bottom line of social, economic, and
environmental justice. SEED's Mission is to advance the right of
every person to live in a socially, economi