Landscape Architecture, Tactical Urbanism, Public Art, Popup Parks
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Landscape Architecture, Tactical Urbanism, Public Art, Popup Parks: The Power of Design to Transform Our Neighborhoods
We will be hosting a symposium on Landscape Architecture, Design, Art, Sculpture in Public Outdoor Spaces, Popup Parks and Tactical Urbanism, and Sustainable Landscape Design - in short, the art of Creative Placemaking.
IMPORTANT!!! Our event is filling up fast. Non-DVWM members PLEASE REGISTER on our newly created Eventbrite page for the symposium to reserve your seat: http://designventurerswm.eventbrite.com/
We have a wonderful array of speakers:
• City Planner, Jessica Allan, City Planner for Easthampton, speaking on Tactical Urbanism, and Popup Parks.
• Lisa DePiano, of Mobile Design Lab will be presenting on "Participatory Design: The Art of Organized Chaos"
• Nancy Howard, MLA will be presenting on:
The Canal Creature Crawl:
Playing with night-terrors of the post-industrial landscape and
The Dinosaur Garden:
An Educational Jurassic Landscape in Holyoke
• Joseph Krupczynski, / Associate Professor, Architecture + Design Program at Umass Amherst will present on on the Envision Depot Square project he did with his graduate students.
• James Kitchen will be presenting on "Springfield of Dreams":
Featuring his 35' tall sculpture, "Birdicus Gigantium", made of recycled steel and installed in downtown Springfield at One Financial Plaza.
• Marcos Marrero, City Planner for Holyoke, and Jeff Bianchine, Creative Economy Coordinator for Holyoke, will be speaking on their revitalization goals for the city.
• Lisa Hoag will do a presentation on the High Line in New York City and it's success in helping to transform the Lower West Side neighborhood (the former meat packing district), into a new and emergent district for galleries and the arts.
• Rich Stewart, a talented designer, and colleague from New York will be presenting on how to create virtual representations of environmental designs in Photoshop, as well as integrating photovoltaic structures into landscape designs, and some successful urban revitalization projects such as PS1 in New York that could be used as models elsewhere.
• Steve St. Pierre of Co-ex Corporation will be presenting on outdoor daylighting shelter projects in public spaces, including a non-attached polycarbonate shelter structure for a local farmers market, and an arched structure to bridge an open air space between two buildings, using his company's, translucent structural multi-wall polycarbonate material.
Please stay tuned as we provide updates to the event.
Here is our Event Schedule:
Session 1. From 9:00 - 10:30am:
Tactical Urbanism : A Panel Discussion with Jessica Allan, City Planner for Easthampton, MA, Lisa DePiano, permaculturalist, of Mobile Design Lab, and Nancy Howard, MLA
Session 2. 10:45 - 11:45am
Room 1: "Envision Depot Square Holyoke", a presentation by Joseph Krupzcynski, Associate Professor, Architecture + Design Program for Umass Amherst
Room 2: "Springfield of Dreams", a presentation by James Kitchen, sculptor, featuring his 35' tall sculpture, "Birdicus Gigantium", made of recycled steel and installed in downtown Springfield at One Financial Plaza.
Lunch: 12:00 - 1:30pm:
You can either bring a brown bag lunch, or walk to some nearby restaurants for lunch.
There will be a brown bag, open discussion, Q and A and idea gathering session for future creative placemaking projects.
Session 3. 1:30 - 2:30pm
Holyoke's Creative Vision: Creativity Takes Courage, a presentation by Marcos Marrero, City Planner for the City of Holyoke, and Jeff Bianchine, Creative Economy Coodinator for the City of Holyoke. ("Creativity Takes Courage" - H. Matisse)
Session 4. 2:45 - 3:45pm
Room 1: Digital Visualization and Prototyping of Virtual Public Spaces, a presentation by Rich Stewart, Visualization Digital Artist, and Strategist
Room 2: The Dinosaur Garden: An Educational Jurassic Landscape in Holyoke, a presentation by Nancy Howard
Session 5. 4:00 -5:00pm
Room 1: The Power of Design to Transform Neighborhoods: A Presentation on the Highline Park in New York City, a presentation by Lisa Hoag, Designer, Artist, Experimental Environmental Design Coordinator and Consultant
Room 2: Structures of Light: Steve St. Pierre of Co-ex Corporation will be presenting on outdoor daylighting shelter projects in public spaces, including a non-attached polycarbonate shelter structure for a local farmers market, and an arched structure to bridge an open air space between two buildings, using his company's, translucent structural multi-wall polycarbonate material.
All the Best,
Lisa
PS. We would love your help promoting the event! and our new DVWM facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Design-Venturers-Western-Mass/642668199101126
Landscape Architecture, Tactical Urbanism, Public Art, Popup Parks