Dionne Hines

Bio

Primary Research Area: Engaged Social Design & Organization Strategies

Secondary Domain: Design Thinking, Methods, Materials and Education

Dionne Hines is a planner, designer, and triathlete. She earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture and two master’s degrees, one in historic preservation and another in city and regional planning. During her graduate work, she completed a study abroad program in Delhi focused on urban design methods in dense activity centers and an Eisenhower Transportation Research Fellowship focused on urban design standards for redevelopment along transit-oriented corridors. Dionne has more than 15 years of experience managing community programs and projects in the nonprofit and local government sectors. She is currently a community planner in the private sector. 

Research Interests:

As a community planner and doctoral student, Dionne is working to identify patterns within the deliberative problem-solving language and structures of diverse cultural contexts, to develop equitable and adaptable civic engagement structures and mechanisms that ensure a balance of power between traditionally marginalized communities and local government, in the full cycle decision-making processes that impact structural, procedural, and distributional equity within policy design, implementation, and evaluation. 

She will review these patterns in the context of other communal problem-solving activities such as game design, to create a “pattern language” for how to restructure and resituate equitable civic engagement within the policy development, implementation, and evaluation processes in local government.