CNU24 Open Innovation: Design For Good / Design For Impact
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From the Congress for the New Urbanism: "Pretty designs are easy to sell, while impactful designs need more careful thought. These OI sessions are centered on the philosophies, data, and markets of good design. Learn how local concerns of jobs and safety can be addressed with thoughtful community design. Explore the Charter of the New Urbanism through the lens of social impact. And participate in a brief digital design workshop to activate abandoned spaces. This panel is an exploration of the Charter of the New Urbanism through the lens of the Community Design movement by three designers, each reflecting on their practice and teaching experience in considering ways that the values of design equity, social impact, and inclusive processes are supported by the cornerstone beliefs of the Congress for the New Urbanism."
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- 1. @mallorybachesDesign for Good / Design for Impact THE CHARTER through the lens of COMMUNITY DESIGN EDWARD ORLOWSKI associate professor of architecture, Lawrence Technological University ASHLEY FLINTOFF planner, Wayne State University MALLORY BACHES urban designer, The Civic Hub @AshleySFlintoff@activistarchLTU
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- 6. Design for Good / Design for Impact @activistarchLTU The Charter through the lens of Community Design : An Educator’s Confessions Edward M. Orlowski,AIA; LEED AP; SEED Lawrence Technological University President – Association for Community Design / Founding Director – Atelier Mule
- 7. Design for Good / Design for Impact Image: Giuiseppe Molteni “All art is a confession.” - Gaston Lachaise @activistarchLTU
- 8. Design for Good / Design for Impact Images: CNU / Paramount Pictures @activistarchLTU
- 9. Design for Good / Design for Impact Image: John Galwaa @activistarchLTU
- 10. Design for Good / Design for Impact We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice. We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework. We represent a broad-based citizenry, composed of public and private sector leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals. We are committed to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design. @activistarchLTU
- 11. Design for Good / Design for Impact We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice. We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework. We represent a broad-based citizenry, composed of public and private sector leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals. We are committed to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design. @activistarchLTU
- 12. Design for Good / Design for Impact Images: Justin Shafer @activistarchLTU
- 13. Design for Good / Design for Impact We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice. We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework. We represent a broad-based citizenry, composed of public and private sector leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals. We are committed to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design. @activistarchLTU
- 14. Design for Good / Design for Impact Images: Candy Chang and Hester Street Collaborative @activistarchLTU
- 15. Design for Good / Design for Impact Images: Brianna Campbell @activistarchLTU
- 16. Design for Good / Design for Impact We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice. We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework. We represent a broad-based citizenry, composed of public and private sector leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals. We are committed to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design. @activistarchLTU
- 17. Design for Good / Design for Impact Image: Detroit Resists @activistarchLTU
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- 36. @mallorybachesDesign for Good / Design for Impact Cities, like forests, are in a constant state of renewal. While forests recycle in rhythm with natural laws, the city is recycled by the collective will and conscience of its citizens. STROUD WATSON, CHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO
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- 40. @mallorybachesDesign for Good / Design for Impact Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great. FRED KENT, PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES
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Notes de l'éditeur
- This is the Charter through the lens of Community Design, and I want to introduce my colleagues, who will be presenting with me this morning. EDWARD ORLOWSKI is an associate professor of architecture at Lawrence Technological University, and ASHLEY FLINTOFF is a planner with Wayne State University, both here in Detroit.
- My name is Mallory Baches. I am an urban designer, and this week in Detroit marks 15 years, that I’ve been coming to Congresses. But in addition to being a long-time member of CNU, I am also a member of the board of the Association for Community Design, as are Edward (who is our board President) and Ashley (who is our Communications Chair).Community Design is a movement that has expanded and evolved over the past 50 years, but its roots are with many of the same urbanism advocates that New Urbanists know and reference: William (Holly) White, Jane Jacobs, Paul Davidoff.Today the architecture and planning industries more fully embrace the values of design equity, social impact, and inclusive processes, but this wasn’t always common.At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Urban League director Whitney Young addressed the 100th A.I.A. convention, saying, “You are distinguished by your thundering silence” in the face of urban disintegration. “You share responsibility for the mess we are in. Get involved in helping cities rebuild, or risk the consequences.”His challenge was met, in neighborhoods like New Haven and North-Central Philadelphia and East Baltimore, as activist architects and planners turned their attention to communities that had been severely disinvested in, with programs like the Yale Building Project, and with organizations like the Community Design Collaborative in Philadelphia and the Neighborhood Design Center in Baltimore.Most people experience community design through the model of the Community Design Center (or CDC), often a non-profit organization providing design services especially to underserved communities. In a typical private development project, a designer is accountable to a developer, a contractor, and an end-user. By contrast, community design considers the entire community to be the developer, contractor and end-user. This expansion of the vested players not only shifts the design process but expands the breadth and depth of possible projects, thanks to the direct relationship between the community and the designer. And in many cases, the common CDC technique of providing technical assistance methods improves the neighborhood capacity for ownership and operation of their shared urban environment. The Association for Community Design was established in 1977 to serve and support practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in this work.
- This map, produced as a collaboration, between ACD members and architecture professor Sharon Haar from the University of Illinois at Chicago, gives you an idea of the number and distribution of community design centers, practices, and programs happening across the country today.
- Jane Jacobs said: cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. At their most fundamental level, this is a mission that both the New Urbanism and Community Design can and do fully support, and Ed, Ashley, and I are going to talk about that mission a bit more deeply.
- Confession #1: I’m an architect, not an urban designer or urban planner, so what I will show you is work of a different scale, but there are principles in common.
- Confession #2: Like many an outsider, my first impression of New Urbanism came from Seaside. Seaside as artifice (Truman Show) contributes to an unfair impression of New Urbanism as about image
- Looking at charter, I am struck by how the emphasis on participatory processes is very much in line with what I try to teach my students. The activist studio I teach draws from proactive processes such as those demonstrated by Public Architecture, and is inspired by principles of advocacy advanced by Paul Davidoff.
- These three passages of the charter are most compelling to me, and I see sympathetic lessons here for design students of a variety of stripes, exclusive of stylistic leanings. In her article “The Social Goals of New Urbanism”, Emily Talen notes: “In some ways, it may in fact be easier to link New Urbanist processes to social goals rather than physical design ideals.”
- There is a need for designers at any scale to know their limits, and realize they cannot simply ‘design away’ bad economics, racism, classism, or other deep societal challenges. But they must also endeavor to bring their abilities into partnership with those who address social goals on a programmatic level. Pastora San Juan Cafferty wrote “The bricks and mortar approach to solving social problems is dangerous because it wastes scarce resources, raises community expectations, and results in disillusionment and alienation.”
- Justin Shafer realized in studying homelessness, that his best opportunity for impact was to help not the homeless, but those who help the homeless. His design ideas were focused upon advancing the mission of the South Oakland Shelter. He recognized that he could make a larger impact on the situation not by attempting to directly intervene on behalf of the homeless, but by offering support to an organization with the means and experience to tackle their issues directly. Justin’s resulting project was designed to aid SOS with its outreach and volunteer recruiting efforts. He proposed a ‘kit of parts’, which can be used to create signage, interview space, shower facilities, or anything that can help the group carry out its mission. The project did not necessarily render one single architectural solution, but focused instead on providing the necessary means to carry out any architectural solution.
- Informed design comes from many voices, and it is important to empower as many constituencies as possible to guide a truly democratic process. For those of us involved in public-interest and community-based design, this is a core belief.
- It is important to recognize the breadth of information gathering tools available, and the inherent biases in each one. I Wish This Was was inspired by vacant storefronts. Candy Chang created fill-in-the-blank stickers as an experiment to see what might happen if we could easily say what we want in these vacant spaces. She placed boxes of free stickers in businesses around the city and posted grids of blank stickers on vacant buildings, so anyone walking by could fill one out. The stickers are vinyl and they can be easily removed without damaging property. The Waterfront on Wheels (WoW) was a series of workshops, conducted by Hester Street Collaborative, in partnership with the Lower East Side Waterfront Alliance, that engaged local residents around envisioning the future for public park space on the East River waterfront. Use models of ideas were compared to find commonalities. A blog tacked travel and announced workshops.
- Student Brianna Campbell created this interactive display for Clio, Michigan’s 2015 Candlewalk Holiday festival to gather resident and visitor feedback on what physical, cultural, and economic amenities they felt would be instrumental in the revitalization of the downtown.
- While some may look at self-contained communities like Seaside as the hallmark of New Urbanism, the Charter includes the impetus not only to create local community identity, but to uncover it inclusively. This is a specifically significant point in a city like Detroit.
- Confession #3: As a native, I want to pose a challenge to you all. In your time here in Detroit during this congress, try to understand the many Detroits: the ruins, the hipster enclaves, the fiercely protective and cooperative core neighborhoods, the city the media would have you believe, the city outsiders conjure, and the city new and longtime residents hope for. Try to imagine an inclusive city that draws strength and character from its collective pain and potential. That is the possibility I see in the CNU Charter.
- Because I participate in both the New Urbanist and Community Design movements, I’m interested in places where they overlap, and there are examples of where New Urbanism and Community Design have worked hand-in-hand to shape the future of a city. Chattanooga is one of those places. In the 70s, the city was economically depressed, the downtown was dead, and Walter Cronkite had described it as “the dirtiest city in America” on the national evening news. The community responded in two ways.The first is that the Chattanooga Venture was formed: a group of citizens led by the late great Mai Bell Hurley (who was known for repeating the city-building phrase, “Be hopeful and be helpful,”). With the leadership of long-time CNU member Gianni Longo, the venture created the landmark Vision 2000 forums and plan, which brought Chattanoogans from all walks of life together to consider what was great about the city and what could make it greater. Many New Urbanist practitioners went on to write about Chattanooga, lecture in Chattanooga, and work in Chattanooga.Yet at the same time that the large-scale visioning was taking place, a smaller-scale nurturing was also happening. Architect Stroud Watson, with help from the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga’s architecture school, founded the Urban Design Studio, which he described in this way:“How the community is designed, built and cared for is a result of the community’s ability to form a shared vision that is special to Chattanooga, a memorable vision that reflects its past, reinforces its present and predicts a future. The Urban Design Studio initiates and sustains a dialogue with the community and gives visual presence to those visions.” Since these complimentary initiatives first launched, Chattanooga has become a downtown revitalization success story…but so far, the revitalization has stopped short of the neighborhoods beyond. One of those neighborhoods is East Chattanooga, and running through it is Glass Street.
- Glass Street is a 1920s commercial corridor, running through the middle of the vast East Chattanooga neighborhood and connecting major portions of Chattanooga, and it is also home to a small nonprofit called Glass House Collective.Their strategy is centered around creative placemaking. Glass House sees the potential in Glass Street and in surrounding East Chattanooga, but they are also conscious that the conditions of the corridor today reflect decades of disinvestment… 64% of the residents in East Chattanooga live below the poverty level, and the area is known for high-crime and gang activity.
- With those on the ground conditions, I was hired to take Glass House Collective’s work into their next phase of operation by leading an urbanism workshop. We called the project The Next Big Thing (Is A Bunch Of Little Things), asking workshop participants for creative, realistic, and scalable urban revitalization tactics to improve residential, commercial, and public space within a 5 minute walk of Glass Street. We asked designers to specifically address implementation within 1 month, 1 year, 3 year time frames.To do this, for this community, my workshop team needed the same skills and principles that any New Urbanist works with, but the values that we brought to our work needed to be explicit. I asked team members to consider these balanced values:Places ⇔ People : Your designs should value the places -- figure and ground -- that give form to this community, while always valuing the people that give life to this community.Movement ⇔ Access : Your designs need to address the movement to, from, and through this community, while being sure to address the equity of access into, out of, and within this community.Investment ⇔ Character : Your designs will encourage investment in this community and by this community, but should do so by encouraging activation of the existing culture and assets of this community
- The workshop looked like any typical New Urbanist charrette; individual design teams included architects, planners, transportation engineers, elected officials, municipal government representatives, local foundation representatives, artists, graphic designers, local business owners, and neighborhood residents. What was different was in the implementation of the workshop’s recommendations...
- Part of community design is meeting people where they are, and where they are comfortable...Glass House works to make sure that bridge is there, between ideas and community. This is a bike cart made by an artist who participated in the workshop and has a studio on Glass Street. In it, the director of Glass House can carry storyboards of the workshop proposals, a couple of folding chairs, a cooler to bring cool drinks when its warm out, and supplies needed to document residents’ comments and concerns. Not all neighborhood residents were able to participate in the workshop, and also, not all neighborhood residents felt comfortable speaking candidly in the workshop setting or even attending the workshop setting.
- Another part of community design is the central role of community in defining the needs and then implementing the solutions...Glass House works to facilitate that role.These are members of the East Chattanooga neighborhood after they planted their own street trees along the Glass Street corridor. In the photo is a representative from the City, and a couple of members of the Public Works department. Everyone else is a member of the community.Glass House took the neighborhood’s request for street trees to the authorities to ask for help, and when the infrastructure improvements weren’t a part of the upcoming budget cycle, they were able to get a local nursery to donate the trees, city officials to help locate where each tree should go, and then the neighborhood banded together to plant the actual trees. It isn’t the way infrastructure improvements happen in more top-down (and indeed, many New Urbanist) projects, which are more likely to enjoy long-range budget cycles or long-term capital financing. But it is how Glass Street made some much-needed investment happen: with their own sweat equity.
- Because ultimately, New Urbanism and Community Design share a simple principle: to connect the expertise of long-working professionals with the folks who are experts on the neighborhood: the community.