Joseph Krupczynski

Joseph Krupczynski is a designer, public artist and educator. He is the principal of "studio projects", an interdisciplinary design studio which links design, culture and art through public and private design commissions, installations, activism and research. His recent creative work and scholarship promotes imaginative community partnerships, and crafts participatory art/design platforms to engage a variety of issues within the built environment—especially in collaboration with underrepresented communities.

Professor Krupczynski is also a founding director of The Center for Design Engagement (C*DE), a 501(c)(3) design resource center. The C*DE is dedicated to bringing progressive architectural design, public art and civic engagement strategies to local communities and community-based organizations—and advocates for innovative and sustainable solutions to contemporary art/design problems in Massachusetts cities and towns.

Professor Krupczynski is also the director of the office of Civic Engagement and Service Learning (CESL) at UMass Amherst (umass.edu/cesl). The mission of CESL is to promote learning for life-long, engaged citizenship, partnering with communities on and off campus to work collectively for a more just world. 

Professor Krupczynski received his M.S. Design from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a B.F.A. in Environmental Design from Parsons School of Design, and studied at the Cooper Union School of Architecture.