The Applied Human Rights Studio aimed to provide a training ground for social advocacy communications. It linked students to socially aware professional communicators working in universities, non-government and community organizations. It provided a cutting edge social change communication campaign to a non-government or community client, while also serving as a corrective to the often literal and overly didactic communications approaches found in current social advocacy and human rights campaigns. The project drew students from various disciplines together in a studio situation to collaborate on a real campaign for a not-for-profit organization. The social change campaign targeted homelessness and human rights in Melbourne Australia. The resulting communication campaign ‘Call This a Home?’ was launched in March 2009 and resulted in legislative change at a state government level. I am presenting a case study of this project at the Design Principles and Practice conference in Chicago on the 12th of February 2009.