lecturesHAA is dedicated to creating a broader creative discourse through open and collaborative dialogue. The program includes lectures and discussions throughout the year that will consider important contemporary design issues associated with the urban environment. The initial program for 2009 will be “Challenging Detroit: (Re)generating Urbanism.” This program will provide an important platform for consideration of innovative, multidisciplinary strategies designed to help the city not only create reinvestment and redevelopment, but also begin to regenerate the social, economic and environmental attributes that define it. Now, more than ever, we need to come together to understand how we can effectively participate in the thoughtful, creative regeneration of Detroit.
The public is encouraged to attend these free events. Please return to rogueHAA for future dates and topics.

EVENT 02: Lecture
SWEET JUNIPER!
The Afflatus of Ruin: Talking Differently About Detroit’s Unique and Endangered Assets
Jim Griffioen, Artist & Author

Jim Griffioen is a former corporate litigator turned writer, photographer, and stay-at-home dad. Every day thousands of people from around the world visit his website, sweetjuniper.com, to read his thoughts on parenthood, contemporary culture, and the state of his adopted home of Detroit.  Griffioen’s photography has been featured in Harper’s, Vice, Landscape Architecture, New York, and CS Interiors among other publications. He has appeared on American Public Media’s The Story with Dick Gordon, CBC’s national arts and culture Program Q, as well as in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker.com.

August 18, 2009 @ 6pm
Johanson Charles Gallery
1345 Division
Eastern Market, Detroit

EVENT 03: Lecture
Lars Graebner, Architect
October 13, 2009 @ 6pm
Johanson Charles Gallery
1345 Division
Eastern Market, Detroit