Please join us for a presentation on Chandigarh by Professor Jit Kumar Gupta, Director of the School of Architecture at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Punjab. Professor Gupta will discuss the challenges faced by Indian urbanists and architects as they seek to adapt the city’s famous Corbusier plan to changing circumstances.
This free lecture will be this Friday, September 3 at noon at the CUDC, 1309 Euclid Avenue, Suite 200. Contact srugare@kent.edu for more information.
Pop Up City is proud to sponsor OUTERSPACE, an art show curated by Michelle Murphy and Baptiste Lefebvre, featuring the work of over 20 artists and art collectives. The event will take place in the same building used for the last Pop Up City Bill Daniel show; 1025 Huron Rd.
OUTERSPACE’s opening reception is Saturday, August 21 from 6-10pm and will be open for a movie night the following Saturday, August 28 starting at 6pm. The show will be open for viewing during the week by appointment, call Michelle 216-225-4135.
Photograph: Babylon Dahlia by Bruce Checefsky, 2009 Fellow The 2011 round of Creative Workforce Fellowships (CWF) is now open for applications. The CWF cycles each year between Literary/Performing Arts and Visual Arts, this current round being open to visual artists and designers. Here’s more information on CWF, which is a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture:
Every day, artists are investing in the future of Cuyahoga County … from the architect that’s transforming an urban neighborhood to the filmmaker who’s in the middle of a groundbreaking feature. They’re strengthening the face of our economy, our education system and our community’s quality of life.
And now the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture is investing directly in the future of these community champions. Applications are currently available for the 2011 cycle of the Creative Workforce Fellowship, a program that will provide $20,000 awards to 20 Cuyahoga County craft, design, media and visual artists. Part 1 of the Application is due July 30, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. EST, and Part 2 is due September 10, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. EST.
For more information about the program, including entry requirements, tips for submitting a competitive application and information about our 5 informational workshops, please visit www.cpacbiz.org/cwf.shtml, or contact Valerie Schumacher at vls@cpacbiz.org or (216) 575-0331, x2. The CWF is made possible by the generous funding of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
Beyond the Motor City, a new documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Aaron Woolf (King Corn), will be showing for free at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History on June 9th at 5:30pm. The film will be screened in select cities across America’s industrial heartland as a part of The Blueprint America Screening Tour. According to the press release,
Beyond the Motor City…examines how Detroit, a grim symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America.
Narrated by Miles O’Brien, the film explores Detroit’s historic investments in infrastructure - from early 19th-century canals to the urban freeways that gave The Motor City its name and made America’s transportation system the envy of the world.
But over the last 30 years, much of the world has left Detroit - and America - behind, choosing faster, cleaner, more modern transportation. In a journey that takes us into the neighborhoods of Detroit and then beyond to Spain, California, and our nation’s capital, Beyond the Motor City urges us to ask how we might finally push America’s transportation system into the 21st century.
What: Beyond the Motor City film screening
Where: CMNH /1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle, Cleveland, OH 44106
When: Wednesday, June 9th, 5:30pm
Cost: Free!
Space is limited for the screening. To attend, please RSVP to: bchase(AT)cmnh.org
Full press release (download pdf)
This Friday morning, the CUDC will host a talk by the outside critics involved in this summer’s M.Arch. capstone studio being taught by Professor Maurizio Sabini.
Alberto Francini is an architect and urban designer of international reputation. After working with Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome [1996-98], he founded “metrogramma” in Milan with his partner Andrea Boschetti in 1998. “metrogramma” has won international design competitions and has been recognized with numerous awards. “metrogramma” has been the main consultant for the recently adopted new Strategic Territorial Plan for Milan [2009]. Since 2006, Alberto Francini is an adjunct professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy and at Kent State University Study Abroad Program in Florence, Italy. He has lectured extensively around the world, including Syracuse University, UIC Chicago and Columbia University. www.metrogramma.com
Federico Parolotto is a mobility consultant, also based in Milan with his firm “MIC – Mobility in Chain”, which he co-founded in 2009. Prior to that he worked with SOM in the UK [1994-98], and with “Systematica” in Milan [1998-08]. He has been involved in numerous major urban planning projects world-wide. Of note are his collaborations with OMA, Zaha Hadid, UNstudio, Metrogramma, Asymptote, and particularly with Norman Foster + Partners, namely on the new “zero-carbon city” of Masdar, planned in Abu Dhabi, and on the winning entry in an international design competition for a new city near Seoul, South Korea. http://www.fosterandpartners.com/News/389/Default.aspx
He was recently a lecturer at “Greenbuilding” in Boston and a speaker at the “Ecological Urbanism” conference held at Harvard University in 2009.
Friday, June 4, 2010 @ 7:30am
1309 Euclid Ave., Suite 200
Cleveland, OH
The first exhibit hosted in our new CUDC gallery will have its opening reception on May 17, 2010 from 5-8pm. The exhibit entitled Napoli Senza Titolo (Naples Untitled) is a photographic exploration of Neopolitans using their city’s public spaces. The exhibit will run through May 29, 2010 and the gallery will be open during CUDC office hours (9-5pm).
Napoli Senza Titolo
Opening reception
May 17, 5 - 8pm
6pm : Gallery talk by Helen Liggett, photographer and professor at CSU’s Levin College of Urban Affairs
Exhibition dates
May 17, 2010 - May 29, 2010
CUDC Gallery
1309 Euclid Ave., Suite 200
For more information call CUDC at 216.357.3434
The exhibit is sponsored by the Consul of Italy in Detroit, Marco Nobili and the CUDC in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Chicago.
From Akron Art Museum website:
Andrew Moore’s photographs of the Motor City are sublime—beautiful, operatic in scale and drama, tragic yet offering a glimmer of hope. They are the subject of Detroit Disassembled, an exhibition organized by the Akron Art Museum making its debut here before touring nationally. Detroit, once the epitome of our nation’s industrial wealth and might, has been in decline for almost a half-century. The city is now one-third empty land—more abandoned property than any American city except post-Katrina New Orleans.
Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore
June 5, 2010 - October 10, 2010
Arnstein, Bidwell and Isroff Galleries
Akron Art Museum
One South High Akron, OH 44308
(330) 376-9185
Detroit Disassembled exhibit website
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Local non-profit Progressive Arts Alliance (PAA) is looking to fill a part-time teaching opportunity made possible by a grant they recently received. PAA is looking for instructors to teach 6th-8th grade students the basics of architecture through an in-school residency May 10 - May 28, 2010. Both architects and students are welcome to apply.
The position would pay $50/hour, 5 classes a day for 9 days totaling $2,250.
If you or someone you know is interested in this opportunity, please click on the application link below for more information.
Applications must be submitted by e-mail or postal mail and the applications must be RECEIVED by Friday April 16, 2010.
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Open reviews for the Performative Architecture Graduate Design Studio will be held at our new CUDC offices Friday, March 26th from 6-8pm. Interested architects or designers are welcome to attend the jury.
The Design with Consequence studio, led by Kent State Associate Professor Adil Sharag-Eldin, addresses several issues relevant in a context of global urban growth:
After the jury, please remember to stop by the Cleveland Institute of Art photo exhibit on the first floor. The show opening reception runs from 6-11pm.
CUDC
1309 Euclid Ave. Suite 200, Cleveland
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You may have recently seen Project H Executive Director Emily Pilloton on The Colbert Report talking about the Design Revolution Road Show making its way around the country in an Airstream trailer. The Road Show stops in Cleveland on Monday, March 29th at the Cleveland Institute of Art with a presentation from Pilloton (12-1pm) and an interdisciplinary design workshop following from (1-2:30pm). The workshop will focus on extracting design principles and tactics from the products presented in the Project H exhibition. The Airstream contains an exhibition of 40 humanitarian solutions showcased in the book Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People.
The event is organized by Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent State Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative with the goal of increasing dialogue between the various design communities in Cleveland. Attendees representing multiple design backgrounds (urban design, architecture, landscape, product design, and business) are strongly encouraged to attend.
The hope is that this event will provide designers from different disciplines, which rarely meet, an opportunity to work together on a common purpose. The organizers are planning to direct the interdisciplinary design energy from the Project H event into a larger initiative focused on a local project in the Fall.
Click here to RSVP for the workshop
Click here for event location map
For more information contact:
Matt Beckwith
Designer-in-Residence, CIA
mbeckwith(AT)cia.edu
Mackenzie King
1st Year Chair, Student & Academic Affairs, CWRU
mackenzie.king(AT)case.edu
David Jurca
Urban Designer, CUDC
djurca(AT)kent.edu
This is a short notice event announcement, but we’d like to invite everyone to stop by the CUDC for an exciting presentation on Saturday, March 27th starting at 5:30pm. A friend of ours, the multi-talented Dave Haslam, will be visiting from Manchester, UK next weekend for a DJ-ing gig at B-Side Liquor Lounge on Sunday and we want to take the opportunity to spotlight some of his other interests with a talk the night before.
Dave will deliver a talk on the post-punk band Joy Division’s emergence in the context of post-industrial Manchester in the late 70’s, the band’s re-emergence as New Order after singer Ian Curtis’ tragic death and their music’s enduring influence to this day.
If you’re a fan of Joy Divison, New Order or the bands they inspired (U2, the Killers, Arcade Fire, etc.), then this is definitely an event you won’t want to miss. But the story of creativity in the midst of affliction is something in which we can all find inspiration.
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Photography majors from the Cleveland Institute of Art will have their Spring Show located on the first floor of our new building from March 26th - April 2nd. The exhibit cleverly named “it’ll last longer” will showcase the work of 18 students exploring the edges of photography using various media.
The currently vacant storefront located on the corner of E. 13th and Euclid Ave. was the site of Designerosa, our Pop Up City book release party and will be again be the venue for Kent State’s interior design department show the week following the CIA exhibit.
Hope to see you at these upcoming exhibits and look out for more event announcements coming soon!
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The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship is now accepting candidate applications for the next round of three year fellowships. The four fellowships available are in St. George, Seattle, Cleveland and Puerto Rico. This great opportunity is available to all architects, interns or students who will be graduated by May 2010.
Intern architects with an M. Arch and a few years of work experience are the best suited for this position, though the minimum qualification is a professional degree in architecture. It is an excellent opportunity to become immersed in community design at all levels, and is a paid commitment of three years, including training seminars, conferences and a unique network of fellows.
The deadline for applications is 5:00 PM EST, Thursday, April 15th, 2010.
More information at: www.rosefellowship.org
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Photos taken from the Brite Winter Festival on Saturday…
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