D:center Baltimore

Manifesto/Manifest

February 23, 2010 in Administrative, Manifesto/Manifest by Fred Scharmen

We’ve got a homework assignment: D:center Baltimore has challenged each of our constituents to write up a concise, clear vision for effecting change, this is our brief:
What’s your idea for a project that will change the way people think about the city? Be as abstract (manifesto) or as concrete (manifest) as you like, write a [...]

Manifest: The PLANT

February 23, 2010 in Manifesto/Manifest by Fred Scharmen

The Plant is a sustainable strategic development masterplan proposal for Baltimore. At the the building scale, The Plant is a mixed use prefab construction, containing a small meeting, office, and retail space for a nonprofit cultural institution, with apartments above. At the scale of the block, The Plant generates surplus energy for its neighbors, food [...]

COIL Inc. Redevelopment Project

February 23, 2010 in Manifesto/Manifest by Ben Stone

posted on behalf of Mary Anne Akers
Prepared by Dr. Mary Anne Akers, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University
Executive Summary for the COIL, Inc. Redevelopment Project
INTRODUCTION
The proposed project area is located on the 1200 block (and possibly, 1100 block) of West Baltimore Street, located on the southwest portion of the City of Baltimore. [...]

Meet Baltimore’s Newest Developer

February 23, 2010 in Manifesto/Manifest by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

One of the most common concerns among architects (and others) in Baltimore is the dearth of creative clients willing to take risks on buildings. I propose that the D:center becomes that client.

Vision of a physical Design Center at 10 N. Charles

February 22, 2010 in Manifesto/Manifest by Klaus

The following is a vision of a Design Center at the location of the Carey School of Business at 10 North Charles Street after the school will vacate the facility in the first half of 2010.
The D:center at 10 North Charles Street is a facility shared by institutes and studios of the School of Architecture [...]

manifesto.

February 22, 2010 in Manifesto/Manifest, criticism by marian.

social interaction generates culture.
creativity and social interaction should be encouraged without thought of profit.
all parties are capable of creative equity. nothing is limited/scarce/precious.
design embraces categories and unique skill sets, but eliminates divisions between them.
skills and knowledge, like commodities, are meant for redistribution amongst all parties.
as facilitators and cultural producers, our main commodity is social interaction [...]

Boston Society of Architects to create a new “design and architecture center”

February 22, 2010 in Uncategorized by Ben Stone

The BSA is moving to the Fort Point Channel, aka ”the Station North of Boston,” where they will create a new “design and architecture center complete with a museum and lecture hall to serve the public.”
http://news.bostonherald.com/business/real_estate/view/20100222architect_group_plans_new_digs_eyes_move_to_atlantic_wharf/srvc=home&position=also

Art Market

February 21, 2010 in Manifesto/Manifest by Craig Purcell

Create an Art Market for local (and other) artists to sell their work thereby establishing an agora for the Arts of sorts and central “place” for the visual arts in Baltimore — see the attachment “Art Market” in Google Groups for the D Center Board members.
Other items may be sold here – reference Eastern [...]

Doodle Collage (& a photo!) from Design Conversation #16

February 9, 2010 in Administrative, Design Conversations, Presentation by Fred Scharmen

We’re going to try to have paper and pencil available at the Design Convos from now on, we’ll collect your notes, doodles, grocery lists or whatever and post them here in the blog. Design Convo #16 (we went back and counted, and decided it really was 16, after all), had some great doodling fodder. The [...]

Design Revolution: Join the Debate

February 8, 2010 in Design Conversations by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

Emily Pilloton hit the road this weekend for her Design Revolution Roadshow. She is coming to Baltimore on March 11 and D:center Baltimore is co-hosting a landmark public lecture on the future of design at the Maryland Institute College of Art…