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- 1. Arlene Watson Principal and Creative Director, Möbius Grey LLC
- 22. Jason Russell City Planner, City of Lakewood
- 28. Before After
- 29. Before After
- 40. TRUST
- 42. Jason Russell, City Planner City of Lakewood jmrussell2003@gmail.com
- 43. Michele Crawford Intern Architect, Robert P. Madison International
- 44. When I grow up I want to be an Architect!!!
- 47. MY POSITIOIN STATEMENT…. For my thesis I am exploring the creation of spatial responses that answer the call of hip-hop culture by instigating expression to empower a community and thus sparking a re-emergence of black consciousness. Architecture can influence user behaviors, I am interested in finding modes of architectural healing for defeated communities that can create a sense of space unique to an urban environment plagues by struggle, inequality and poverty. Proposing a new architectural approach, not based on past/current styles, but that actively accesses current problems and suggest new solutions.
- 49. “I can feel the city breathin’ chest heavin’ against the flesh of the evening… “ Respiration -Black Star
- 51. “To build is to help decide how man (or woman) is to dwell on the earth or indeed whether he (or she) is to dwell on it at all, rather than drift aimlessly across it.” Karsten Harries
- 52. Fear Not of Man - Mos Def “… people get better when they determine that they are valuable…”
- 53. Jay Shells
- 54. The community identity is not as unique and diverse as the community it was meant to serve. Therefore it doesn’t serve. “…and I still got love for the streets.” -Dr. Dre
- 62. I want to be an Architect… NOW!!! Dear NCARB, can I skip IDP… and ARE?
- 64. THANK YOU!
- 65. Diane Davis-Sikora Associate Professor, KSU CAED
- 67. Tenk Machine & Tool Co 4519 Hamilton Avenue Westinghouse Building Saint Claire Crane Facility3135 Sackett Avenue 123 W. Bartges
- 68. 7th Day Adventist Church Pearl Road United Methodist Lutheran Church St. Gregory St. Michael the Archangel ByzantineFirst Presbyterian Church
Editor's Notes
- #3: As designers we have the unique opportunity to shape perspectives
- #4: ----- Meeting Notes (2/27/14 05:54) ----- i keep an open mind, ask questions
- #5: I keep an open mind, ask questions and allow myself to learn more
- #6: Here the City of Cleveland had an epidemic to deal with
- #7: and made a bold move to address the target audience
- #8: Without hiding
- #9: Clients aren’t afraid of this. In fact, they welcome the challenge
- #10: The State of Ohio faced a similar challenge with their LGBT youth
- #11: If they are truly engaged in the process
- #12: The work develops without restrictions
- #13: The County wanted people to listen and opened a community engagement process that was very risky
- #14: This is a collaborative process
- #15: Creativity happens when you allow differences in the activity
- #16: Invite others to participate
- #17: Ohio City and Burten Bell Carr encouraged residents to take ownership
- #18: The design communicated in their language and provided amenities
- #19: When everyone’s interest is considered
- #20: Even in corporate environments
- #21: The straightest of clients will allow something different to happen
- #22: Look at those perspectives and create the opportunity to design solutions
- #45: You would have thought I knew this all along, but it wasn’t until I was already on the architecture road that I thoughtfully committed to this profession.
- #46: The influence of the built environment to a users behavior
- #47: Power Architecture and Me
- #48: KARSTEN HARRIES
- #49: New 3 trigle
- #50: I had to be… I had to see and interact … video
- #51: I began to draw some conclusions about what was happening in the neighborhoods that I was Passing through 2 and more times a day. An what was my charge as a design it was to not only . Spatial impoverishment still happening from the civil rights area
- #52: Very soon after this I began to identify Hip Hop as the self expression liberating piece that could serve as the driving cultural piece for the rest of my thesis studies.
- #54: Corners Parks Community Centers Public Transits these spaces were all the canvas for the robust culture that had emerged and was now global and effecting the world in both an authentic and commerical sense.
- #55: Why Hip-Hop… Hip Hop steamed from design denied neighborhoods. It also had a strong allegiance to these impoverished city spaces
- #56: The spirit of hip-hop was that it just happened, a righteous rhythm over a dope beat wasn’t always planned. It was the improvisation that made hip hop style worth wild, just like the grafitti style Music was the most popular, and most main stream not designed spaces… but spaces nonetheless
- #57: The elements of hip-hop include Dj/Mc/Break dancing/and graffitti art… but no Architecture! So this now became my charge to put some sense to drawing connection of what this could look like and
- #58: FreeStyle… Just because something is free of programming doesn’t necessarily mean it’s free of architecture. Functional remixing! Actually most hip hopish interactions weren’t always planned it was spontaneous and static, a sweet surprise as you walked through the park or caught a glimpse of a new graffitti tag as the train passed by. (put site analysis)
- #60: Picture of exhibition… That architecture was a service profession yes it was artistic and creative but it also had a huge responsibility to protect the users.
- #61: Practice and praxis and after thesis semester of praxis on praxis on praxis I was kind of tired of larning… it was time to do… something.. Anything… but architecture! At this point I wanted nothing to do with the responsibility associated with the profession that I was a master in… at least that;s what my diploma said… but I was in denial. So I packed up all my stuff and left Chcagi
- #62: As a means to being I worked in the Reid Park Neighborhood of Charlotte working with the NA, building kabooms playgrounds and helping with community led initiatives. This was making my thesis unexpectedly come full circle, and I once again saw the importance of becoming an architect and having the proper power and drive work on projects and influence the built environment