Design with Detroit: Urban Futures

CHARRETTE IS IN-PERSON ONLY. LIVE AT QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART. Saturday, January 14, 2012 | 3:00pm until 6:00pm On January 14th 3pm-6pm SUPERFRONT presents “Design with Detroit: Urban Futures,” a rapid design charrette for students and young designers at the Queens Museum of Art. Designers will have 30 minutes to review a brief and 2 hours to respond with design drawings in real time. The goal of the charrette is to generate designs informed by awareness of the city’s rich contemporary cultural practices, as well as the history of anti-displacement organizing in Detroit and beyond. The design problems to address range from the rehabilitation of historic buildings in commercial districts to design-build strategies for multi-generational education centers and productive use of collective open space. The program brief for the design includes a screening of the 12-minute music video/documentary “Locusts,” a work of Detroit-based EMERGENCE media. A small jury, including Mark Gardner of Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects, will select winning designs. The winner will receive a prize of $100, as well as publication in SUPERFRONT's Lab for Urban Futures publication. Two runner up design projects will also be selected for publication. BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP AND/OR DRAWINGS IMPLEMENTS. Paper + printing will be provided onsite. The rapid charrette format is geared toward leveling the field for designers who have limited time to devote to non-paying endeavors. To participate in the charrette please include your full name in rsvp with subject "DDUF" to {encode="[email protected]" title="[email protected]"} by Jan 12. SPACES ARE LIMITED. This is the 3rd event in SUPERFRONT’s Lab for Urban Futures series at the Queens Museum of Art, which culminates with a publication release in February.