City Wild
Unraveling Urban Life and Space
Come join us if you can - for an hour or a few minutes. Work on display will be for the System Restart project, for which I previously posted the briefs.
Cities are systems, systems within systems. Government, infrastructure, food, healthcare, education, taxes, ecosystems - these are just a few examples. We live in a time characterized by dysfunction and lack of investment (#neglect) in many of these systems. Some of these are spectacular – levee failure – to mundane - a crack in the sidewalk. As we’ve seen in #Flintwatercrisis, catastrophes happen when multiple system failures align in the same space.
Understanding the systems operating within cities lets us understand cities and how to accomplish tasks (change, built work, permit approval) within them far better. In this project the systems of the city become more visible to us through the places where they break down. We reframe these places as opportunities for design. How can design utilize dysfunctional urban systems to create more just, healthy, and sustainable environments? Project site: Chosen by individual student for his/her Part II design. Choose a site that:
Project schedule: Th 2.11 Part I in-class presentation, posts to social media/your online portfolio, tagged with @samedelstein and @Andrew_Maxwell, #iteams (+other hashtags at your discretion) Part II project brief posted via @susandieterlen and on City Wild (blog) Tu 2.16 & No formal class meeting- Th 2.18 no studio deadlines week. Email me with questions or to meet by appointment. Tu 2.23 80% complete; Regular studio meeting Th 2.25 Poster Session with Syracuse I-Team (location and details TBA) M 2.29 5:00 p.m.: Parts I and II due in pdf to class Google drive folder. Please submit your Part I work as completed for 2.11.16, even if you used a different system for Part II. Post final boards to social media/your online portfolio, tagged with @samedelstein and @Andrew_Maxwell, #iteams. Deliverables: Pdf of final boards uploaded to course website, AND For poster session: 2 – 24”x 36” boards in hardcopy, unmounted, oriented horizontally (eg: 36” wide). Also include a separate paragraph explaining your design intent (300 words or less) – details about how to submit this paragraph will be forthcoming. Boards should include:
Designs should be realistic in terms of scale and relationships of site elements, with materials specified for key elements. Evaluation Criteria:
Copyright © 2016 Susan Dieterlen If you've been following the news about the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan, or if you haven't, but you care about cities, their most vulnerable residents, public policy, politics, power, and the dismal state of public infrastructure, check this out. A simple guest lecture for my current class, Studio|Next, has grown into what promises to be an excellent session with a congressional rep from Flint and two local faculty members. Those of you in the Syracuse area around lunchtime on Tuesday are welcome to bring your lunch and come by the Center of Excellence. Those of you in other places can join us via the web. Either way, link is below for the free registration site. If you're missing City Wild Seminar or the first version of Studio|Next, this will remind you of old times in the postindustrial wild! Take a look-
-S Flint: Water + Lead + Infrastructure Tuesday, February 9, 2016, Noon to 1:00pm REGISTER HERE TO JOIN IN PERSON REGISTER HERE TO JOIN VIA WEBINAR Flint, a city of about 100,000 in southeastern Michigan, is known as the birthplace of General Motors and for subsequent Rustbelt decline. Two new words define the city nationally: lead poisoning. Contamination of the municipal water supply and a shocking list of resulting health problems are a product of uniquely toxic chemistry, politics, and power within the region and the state. However, aging infrastructure and social inequality, problems shared by many other American cities, were also key ingredients in this disaster, prompting the question of whether this could happen elsewhere, and how to prevent it. Please join this panel discussion as Hon. Dan Kildee, U.S. House of Representatives, of Flint, Michigan. speaks from Washington, D.C. about the current drinking water crisis and its connections with the city's infrastructure. Rep. Kildee is a lifelong Flint resident who founded the pioneering Genesee County Land Bank and co-founded the Center for Community Progress, a national organization promoting urban land reform and revitalization. This session was created as part of: ARC 407 Studio|Next: Building the Post-Carbon City #citybynext Panelists: Telisa M. Stewart, Assistant Professor, Upstate Medical University Paula C. Johnson, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law Session chair and organizer: Susan Dieterlen, Research Assistant Professor, Syracuse University School of Architecture, Faculty Research Fellow, SyracuseCoE *There is no charge for participating in this event. Cities are systems, systems within systems. Government, infrastructure, food, healthcare, education, taxes, ecosystems - these are just a few examples. We live in a time characterized by dysfunction and lack of investment (#neglect) in many of these systems. Some of these are spectacular - the levees failing in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina - while others are mundane - a crack in the sidewalk.
Understanding the systems operating within cities lets us understand functioning cities and how to accomplish tasks (change, built work, permit approval) within them far better. In this project the systems of the city become more visible to us through the places where they break down. What design opportunities are created by dysfunctional urban systems? Project site: The city of Syracuse. Some systems may include areas beyond the city or even its suburbs (eg: watersheds). What to do:
Project schedule: M 2.01 Project brief posted via @susandieterlen and on City Wild (blog) Tu 2.02 Guest lecture by Syracuse I-Team’s Andy Maxwell and Sam Edelstein (CoE 508); go over project brief; begin Part I Tu 2.09 Flint water crisis panel (Room 203, Syracuse Center of Excellence; noon-1:00) Th 2.11 Part I finished; in-class presentation, posts to social media, tagged with @samedelstein and @Andrew_Maxwell, #iteams (+other hashtags at your discretion) Part II begins (see separate project brief) Th 2.25 Poster Session with Syracuse I-Team (location TBA) M 2.29 5:00 p.m.: Parts I and II due in pdf to class Google drive folder. Tu 3.01 Post final boards to social media, tagged with @samedelstein and @Andrew_Maxwell, #iteams Deliverables: 1 – 24”x36” board (digital) OR equivalent in Prezi including:
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AboutAssorted drafts, previews, and outtakes from the book I'm currently writing about the impact of vegetation and neglect on urban life. I also take other thoughts for a test drive here, including nascent design and research ideas. Archives
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