EVENT ARCHIVE

Travel opens our eyes to unfamiliar places, patterns of living, and architecture. Throughout our 3-day class visit to New Orleans, students were encouraged to keep sketchbooks as we journeyed through sites like the French Quarter, the Garden District, the Algiers neighborhood and Congo Park. Highlights included Treme’s Petit Jazz Museum, the French Quarter Market, and brunch at Café Reconcile. Sketchbooks were used to help students analyze architectural motifs, urban design, and their alignment with “Just Cities” values.

On Wednesday class days we met at Farview and Creekview Parks for two hours to include neighborhood youth interns. The interns provided down-to-earth understanding of the neighborhood context, helping ideate solutions grounded in their experience and training in sustainability but expanded by their imagination.

Between the dates of October 5th and 6th, our class visited two sites in North Minneapolis to become familiarized with the neighborhood site of the studio. They brought their sketchbooks and helping hands.

October 5th– Site visit, Volunteering and Dinner at Oak Park Garden and Center hosted by Michael Chaney

October 6th– Visit to Settled Tiny Homes Project with Gabrielle Clowdus

UROC Open House: Investing with North Minneapolis Display

Our class hosted a panel discussion with Catherine, Shanasha, Clifton and Dane.

Model-making and representation test the degree to which our ideas are understandable and realizable by others. Our class fabricated work using a variety of scales, media and tools to demonstrate how a spatial condition can generate sensory feedback tuned toward achieving a design goal.

Money Day…

On Wednesday class days we met at Farview and Creekview Parks for two hours to include neighborhood youth interns. The interns provided down-to-earth understanding of the neighborhood context, helping ideate solutions grounded in their experience and training in sustainability but expanded by their imagination.

On Wednesday class days we met at Farview and Creekview Parks for two hours to include neighborhood youth interns. The interns provided down-to-earth understanding of the neighborhood context, helping ideate solutions grounded in their experience and training in sustainability but expanded by their imagination.

Community members joined the Investing with North Minneapolis team to walk, talk, and draw with us! To get broader input, we hosted design events to which the entire North Minneapolis community was invited. Organized by our project team and advisory group with help from students and interns, we discussed intern-designed safe neighborhood walking routes and landmarks before meeting at the end to share snacks and stories. These events were designed to generate sustainable, informed and just urban designs that represent community visions of future neighborhood designs. They served as the basis for the development of urban design projects during the semester.