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after dinner drinks
Tea Kung Fu Photo by Michael Camilleri After dinner, a cup of tea or coffee is always welcome. Consider this my after dinner post to wrap up this edition of the dinner series. For the last couple of weeks, I have been writing about food and community, particularly focused around dinner. I had a lot [...]
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Tags: community, designers, dinner, new york city, NOMA
Being a Community Visionionary
Photo by Shannon Eck I had the pleasure of stumbling onto a new radio show, The Promised Land, hosted by the extraordinary Majora Carter. The show spotlights people “with innovative ideas about changing lives and transforming communities.” Instead of just interviewing her subjects in a studio, Ms Carter actually spends time with them in their [...]
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Brandy wraps up her thoughts on the conference. Architecture for change – or at least the seeds of it. Brandy H. M. Brooks Director, Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Photo by Katherine Williams Each of the four speakers – and many others at the conference I don’t have room to name – presented huge [...]
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Tags: ArchForChange, Brandy Brooks, conference
In her third post, Brandy fills us in on two more speakers form the conference. Architecture for change – or at least the seeds of it. Brandy H. M. Brooks Director, Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Photo by Joanne Maly – Lincoln Maly Marketing. Back when I was a young’un in AIAS, I went [...]
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Next up, Brandy writes about two of the speakers. Architecture for change – or at least the seeds of it. Brandy H. M. Brooks Director, Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Although I’ve certainly heard of Teddy Cruz, this was the first time I’d ever heard him speak, and I can’t believe I missed out [...]
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Tags: ArchForChange, Brandy Brooks, conference
A few weeks ago a group of architects, developers, and activist got together to discuss affordable housing development and how to create change in the field. Unable to attend, I really enjoyed reading the tweets of Brandy Brooks (@bhmbrooks) that I asked here if she would write about her time at the conference for this [...]
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Tags: ArchForChange, Brandy Brooks, conference
I had a conversation recently discussing the state of community design and design centers. I argued that design centers needed to jump into the web 2.0 world. My colleague argued that no one is interested in and that there wouldn’t be much dialogue. I find it hard to believe that I am the only one looking to see what community design centers and individuals are doing in their work. It’s nice to go to a website and see pretty pictures of finished projects but the web offers a great way to document the process. It can tell the story.
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Tags: community design, historic buildings, Inside the Footprint, Louisiana, New Orleans
Immersion
One of the best ways to learn is by immersing yourself in that thing that is new.
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Tags: Alabama, citizen architect, rural studio, Samuel Mockbee
is community design bloggable?
I want to highlight a few blogs that I did find that show some great example of work that is getting community members involved in design for their communities or bringing great design to underserved neighborhoods.
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Tags: 31bnb
Today’s hunt led me to the Next American City’s website. An article posted there describes a new initiative in Los Angeles to help homeless people. The city plans to provide safe parking areas for homeless residents sleeping in cars or RVs.
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Tags: 31bnb, homeless
