Reimagining Cleveland Vacant Land ReUse Forum and Photo-Documentation Exhibition Opening

One thing Cleveland needs to learn to address is how to utilize the large swaths of land that are now vacant within the urban core, in order to strengthen the existing fabric. The vacant properties can be a drain on existing infrastructure and city services and if left appearing blighted can affect the perceived economic value of a community or neighborhood. The Reimagining Cleveland intiative utilizes funding grants to to create amenities or laboratories on these vacant landbanked properties for community benefit.

-borrowed (directly copied) from the CSU email newsletter

Reimagining Cleveland Vacant Land ReUse Forum and

Photo-Documentation Exhibition Opening

Thursday, February 17, 2011

4:00-7:30 p.m.

Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Glickman-Miller Hall, Roberta Steinbacher Atrium

Cleveland State University

1717 Euclid Avenue

Image by Walter Wright

www.reimaginingcleveland.org

You may have heard about the Reimagining Cleveland initiative to reuse vacant lots for community benefit but this Forum will answer the question "What's going on here?" Join us for a program of education and inspiration. Learn from project leaders who have actually created gardens, orchards, vineyards and farms from vacant land. Gather information for your own project from a wealth of resources. And, immediately following the Forum, join us in celebrating the opening of an exhibit in the Forum gallery showcasing the work of photographers and storytellers and illuminating the narratives of the reimagining projects.

Agenda

4:00-4:15 p.m. Welcome and Introductions

4:15-6:00 p.m. Program Including:

City perspective, Cleveland Department of Community Development; Voices from the Gardens, Orchards, Vineyards and Farms (Mansfield Frasier, Justin Husher, Darren & Johanna Hamm, Akanni Thomas, Marlane Weslian); Tracking, Tracing and Presenting Observations on the process of documentation in making productive urban space and restoring Cleveland's ecosystem (Mark Tebeau, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History Department, Cleveland State University and Helen Liggett, Ph.D., Urban Studies, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University); A look to the future of Reimagining Cleveland (Terry Schwartz, AICP, Director, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative)

6:00-6:30 p.m. Question & Answer

6:30-7:30 p.m. Gallery Tour, Reception, Resource Tables, Networking

Resources available include: garden tips and inspiration, technical assistance, funding and human resource assistance, vacant land assessment, and many others.

Presented by the Levin College Forum, NPI, and the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative.

All forum events are free and open to the public, but please register by calling 216.523.7330 or register here.

Roadtrip (7)! - Kent State University Spring 2011 Lecture Series

Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design has just forwarded on their lecture series poster. The theme of this Spring's series is "practicing" and the lectures are shared between the Kiva and the University Auditorium.

March 1

Richard Buday

Archimage

7pm

Kiva

March 28

Elena Manferdini

Atelier Manferdini

7pm

University Auditorium

April 7

Michael Meredith

MOS

7pm

University Auditorium

April 12

Michael Speaks

Dean: U. Kentucky College of Design

7pm

University Auditorium

April 20

Richard Jackson

UCLA School of Public Health

7pm

University Auditorium

All lectures will be held at the main Kent campus in Kent, Ohio. You can use the map link to help sort out where the events occur.

Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3000

District of Design Forum Series - CSU

Friday, February 11, 2011

8:00-9:30 a.m.

Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Glickman-Miller Hall, Roberta Steinbacher Atrium

Cleveland State University

1717 Euclid Avenue

A New Series of Forums Featuring Leading Design Experts

The District of Design is proud to announce it will be hosting a series of community forums on product design and innovation through Cleveland State University's Levin College Forum. The forum series will include some of the region's top experts on product design, highlighting the growing importance of design and innovation to the local and national economy. By strengthening links between the world-class Northeast Ohio design community and local consumer product companies, the series is intended to help further the District of Design's mission to establish Cleveland as the Milan of the Midwest.

Forum speakers feature some of the region's top design minds, including the Cleveland Institute of Art's Dan Cuffaro, Nottingham Sperk's John Nottingham and Doug Hall of Columbus' Eureka! Ranch. We expect the series will attract the local design community, economic development or business sectors.

The series will consist of four moderated discussions that will take place from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. between January and June. The first in the series will be held at 8:00 a.m. Friday February 11, 2011 at the Cleveland State University Levin College of Urban Affairs, 1717 Euclid Avenue and will feature The Cleveland Institute of Art's Dan Cuffaro and Wally Berry of American DaVinci. The forum will be moderated by Rich Osborn of Great Lakes Publishing. The event is free and open to the public.