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 2010 program for is titled, “Challenging Detroit: (Re)generating Urbanism.” This program provides 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 visit our facebook page or return to rogueHAA for post lecture discussions, future topics, and dates.

EVENT 09: Panel Discussion
“THE URBAN ARTSCAPE : A (Re)generation strategy”

Detroit’s Urban Artscape has recently received an assortment of national media attention.  This event aims to expand current dialogue on this topic, moving beyond the most recent media publications that skim over the true multi-dimensional, catalytic power of artistic interventions within a struggling urbanscape.  The panel will be asked to consider how certain social, economic and geographic factors impact their work, including the ways in which the scale and scope of artistic interventions are informed or modulated by the city. Lastly, the panel will evaluate the short and long-term effectiveness of such interventions as devices for urban regeneration.  Whether describing a single urban intervention, an academic analysis of Detroit’s urban artscape, the public aspect of urban art, or the implementation of a larger, ephemeral artistic festival…how effective are these interventions when viewed from an ever-widening perspective? (more…)