Residents of Somerville may wish to speak with Tim Devin. His ongoing History of Somerville, 2010-2100 involves gathering stories from past and current residents about life in that city over the next 90 years. Devin’s plan is to compare these visions of a future Somerville against official development plans, and draw up a printed publication for early 2010.
It’s public ideation plus speculative fiction, and it’s entirely in line with our thoughts on crisis folklore.
Thanks, Tim!
Oh my – check out the amazing publication, slick map and great website just launched by the always amazing Center for Urban Pedagogy: Envisioning Development. There you will find toolkits about urban development and affordable housing. Pictured here is a part of the Affordable Housing Toolkit, a portable workshop that housing advocates, policy experts, community boards, developers, and others can use to teach their constituents about land use and development in New York City. It’s the first in CUP’s series of Envisioning Development Toolkits on topics like affordable housing, zoning, and ULURP. Download the Affordable Housing Book (PDF)
The Center for Urban Pedagogy
CUP makes educational projects about places and how they change. Our projects bring together art and design professionals – artists, graphic designers, architects, urban planners – with community-based advocates and researchers – organizers, government officials, academics, service-providers and policymakers. These partners work with CUP staff to create projects ranging from high school curricula to educational exhibitions.
Our friends at sprout have announced their next spaghetti dinner plan. Next Wednesday, December 16, at 7:30PM, dinner will be served, and the theme for the evening is work and labor.
Performers, lecturers, artists and other company will include:
Directions and other details can be found on the sprout blog.
Richard Florida’s concept of the creative class, that mantra of capitalist urban planning and development, can be simplified into two stages: creatives move in to a neighborhood, bringing their bohemian trendiness along, and opportunistic developers swoop in to brand and capitalize upon the new, hip ‘hood.
To Florida and many, this is a good thing, but the recently juried I Want To Live Here film competition recognized the negative effects of this policy of gentrification and took it head-on. The winner, above, conceived of the re-zoning and rent hikes that accompany so-called development schemes as a war on creativity, which drives artists to produce more client work, and consequently lower quality work.
Other entries are gradually being posted to their website, including the runner-up.
Thanks, Rayna!
Sarah Kavage, a Seattle-based artist and urban planner is currently at residence at InCUBATE in Chicago. While there, Sarah will be developing the project Industrial Harvest: An Exploration of Growth, Exchange and Rebirth in 3 Acts.
Industrial Harvest will begin with the purchase of 1000 bushels of wheat on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The wheat will be distributed in the Chicago area in a series of intimate performance actions designed to personalize the massive system of industrial food production, exchange and distribution. Kavage will be conducting research and interviews, peering into the guts of the systems of production, exchange and distribution that shape our relationship to food. She will also be doing hands-on, performative acts around the themes inherent in the final piece, namely baking, cooking, growing and gifting. Participants and collaborators in these early actions are welcome! For more, see: http://industrialharvest.wordpress.com
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