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 2010 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 06: Lecture
DETROIT: The Grotesque (and other projects)
Christian Unverzagt, Principal Design Director @ M1/DTW

April 13, 2010 @ 6pm
1515 Broadway Cafe
1515 Broadway Street
Downtown Detroit

Christian Unverzagt is the principal design director at M1/DTW, a nationally recognized multidisciplinary studio working at the intersection of design and cultural production. M1’s projects include book design, branding, and built work for a range of commercial, educational, and institutional clients including 6 salon, DAVO Photographic, Creative Class Group, Cranbrook Academy of Art, University of Kentucky College of Design, and the University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute.

Unverzagt teaches at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where his work with students includes projects that aim to document the transmutation of Detroit  as witnessed through its co-mingled layers of identity, occupation, and ownership.