Category: Hit and Run
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Last Friday, HAA joined hundreds from around the world to celebrate Park(ing) Day, a one day event that highlights the need for more livable and vibrant public spaces in our cities. With some help from Unilock and Landscape Forms, pavers and sod where placed on a parking spot at the corner of Gratiot and Woodward. Soon, there was a green patch of space, an unusual site especially when one is accustomed to see a car in its place instead. Onlookers were curious. Drivers paused. Parking enforcement stopped, then questioned, and questioned some more, but finally drove off. This was the idea—to get people to notice, ask questions, and interact. For those that stopped by, they got the message and left with a smile on their faces.
For more information on Parking Day: http://parkingday.org/
City Bird and Bureau of Urban Living Park(ing) Day
Tags: Detroit Urban Strategy, HAA, Park(ing) Day, Parking
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
Artist X. As part of this blog’s ongoing mission to raise the level of design discourse, rogueHAA has created a new series of posts entitled, “Artist X”. This series will highlight local artists, showcasing unique and innovative projects found within the city. By presenting multiple creative disciplines, we hope to build community relationships, spark Detroit specific design dialogue, encourage multi-disciplinary collaboration, and ultimately, strengthen the existing Detroit creative class.
I.T.U. was started by Danielle Aubert and Lana Cavar in Detroit and Zagreb, Croatia. We met as MFA graphic design students at Yale School of Art and collaborated officially for the first time together in 2008. In 2009, we started thinking of ourselves as I.T.U. Danielle is an assistant professor of graphic design at Wayne State University in Detroit. Lana is a practicing graphic designer who works in Zagreb, New York and Detroit. (more…)
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
“DALLY IN THE ALLEY” – SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11th. (Rain date September 12th)
This Saturday, the North Cass Community Union (NCCU) is proud to sponsor Detroit’s “Dally in the Alley” street fair. An annual festival since 1982, proceeds from the Dally™ events are used to support North Cass projects which improve the quality of life for people who live and work there. Festival activities include the following:
3 STAGES OF CONTINUAL MUSIC. Click here for full music schedule.
KIDS PARADE. The Dally is a festival for all ages! There is a kids section for activities and the Kids Parade begins at 4pm.
THE GREENEST FESTIVAL IN DETROIT. The North Cass Community Union is working with Recycle Here and the manpower of the Young Detroit Builders and Summer in the City to make the Dally in the Alley the greenest festival in Detroit. The collaboration’s goal is to divert 85% of the waste stream by collecting: Plastic #1-7, aluminum cans, paper, and cardboard. Recycle Here will take the initiative to make the Dally in the Alley 2010 the “cleanest festival in the city.” This project will require over 100+ volunteers and will need the cooperation of the community in order to be successful. There will be recycling stations set up throughout the festival and volunteers working to keep the festival grounds clean.
For more information on the festival, click here.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Accepting Accidents @ Re:View Contemporary Gallery
Works by Cedric Tai
September 11 – October 9, 2010
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 11, 7 pm – 11 pm
In Accepting Accidents, Detroit-based artist Cedric Tai’s solo exhibit at Re:View Contemporary, Tai explores the unintentional and how we adapt, react, adjust, and create in response to accidental and unexpected circumstances. click here for more information
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In Accepting Accidents, Detroit-based artist Cedric Tai’s solo exhibit at Re:View Contemporary, Tai explores the unintentional and how we adapt, react, adjust, and create in response to accidental and unexpected circumstances.
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Tags: accepting accidents, Art, cedric tai, Detroit Urban Strategy, re:view
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
In 2005, ReBar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single 2 hour metered parking space in downtown San Francisco into a temporary public park. The goal was to provoke an examination of the values that generate public urban space by briefly transforming territory typically reserved for vehicles. The intervention aimed to address a broader range of public needs by providing a public green space.
Today, Park(ing) Day has evolved into an annual worldwide event that empowers the community to enact urban change by creatively altering parking spots for the betterment of the public. This year, Park(ing) Day will be on Friday, September 17th. HAA will be participating in this unique project, and is in the process of selecting a location and designing the Park(ing) spot. Please check back for updates.
If you would like to create your own Park(ing) space or would like more information, please click here: http://parkingday.org/
License to Participate: http://parkingday.org/src/NPD_license_2010.pdf
Park(ing) Day network: http://my.parkingday.org/
Tags: Detroit Urban Strategy, HAA, Park(ing) Day, Parking
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
While the City of Detroit begins to take steps to define its future, existing community assets remain as important as ever to our shared quality of life. City parks, when well-maintained, have the potential to not only provide space for recreation, but also a venue for community engagement and interaction. Now, as the city works to keep parks open in the face of extremely limited resources, several community groups and other volunteer organizations have begun to form partnerships to ensure some parks move beyond survival, and begin to thrive once more.
A group of neighborhood coalitions, non-profits, and the City of Detroit General Services Division, are planning a public participatory design charrette for Palmer Park on Saturday, September 25, from 9am to 12pm at the Detroit Unity Temple, 17505 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48203. (more…)
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
It’s impossible to avoid the deterioration and vacancy abundant within any post-industrial City. Optimistically, these voids and vacancies are also the City’s possibilities for the future. In fact, our City and the Great Lakes industrial region have persisted in this state of duality for many years. While many see the bad and the ugly, others see the good, the beauty, and most importantly, the potential.
Hope is found on multiple scales. In the photo, we find it at a small scale, bursting forth from the most unexpected place…
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Last weekend, the greater Detroit design and culinary communities coalesced in a three day event to benefit the Michigan AIDS Coalition. The Dining by Design tour, which has been visiting six cities a year for the past 13 years, made its debut in Detroit at the Benson and Edith Ford Conference Center at the College for Creative Studies in the recently renovated Argonaut building.
Organized by Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA), the event offers an opportunity for local designers to turn a 150-200 square foot dining area into a work of art. Each installation becomes a unique interpretation of the dining experience limited only by the design team’s creativity. Works ran the gamut from luxurious to theatrical to rustic. One could find a tranquil garden set adjacent to a vibrant typographic environment. One installation was built entirely from cardboard.
The event culminated Saturday night in a dinner for the designers, sponsors, and donors to enjoy a meal, completing the artistic visions. The other cities in this year’s line-up include: Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Columbus, Atlanta and Kansas City, where the event began.
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
The World Expo 2010 is currently underway in the city of Shanghai, China. Staged along both banks of the Huangpu River, more than 190 countries and 50 international organizations from around the globe have come together to share pavilions and exhibitions. The theme of the exposition is Better City – Better Life, and is an opportunity for countries from around the world to showcase their artistic, cultural, and architectural talents. With an estimated 70 million visitors, the event is said to be the most expensive and also largest World’s fair site – 5.28 square km – in history.
The tradition of World Expositions stretches back to the Great Exhibition at Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace in London. At that time, the Exposition provided a unique opportunity for the convening of cultures which otherwise would remain largely separate. Today, even in an era when globalization drives this cultural fusion, the Expo continues to hold an important position both as a cultural venue, political platform, and an opportunity for Shanghai to demonstrate its international significance both to its citizens and the world. (more…)
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
In 1928, publicists marketed Detroit as the “Paris of the Midwest.” Almost a century later, the corner of Grand River and Centre St in Harmonie Park was transformed to mimic this analogy. The Parisian streetscape was constructed for the upcoming film, “The Double”, set in the streets of 1988 Paris. Existing building storefronts were slathered with Parisian “make-up” in order to resemble the most stereo-typical Parisian cafes, restaurants, boutiques, and a Hotel. Baguettes, awnings, street plantings, beaux art lighting, and quaint European bicycles were strategically placed throughout the area. For two full days, these props, actors, and filmmakers energized the streets. For two full days, the employees working in Harmonie Park realized the full urban potential of the area. (more…)
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