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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Join us for Baltimore Design Conversation #15, which will revolve around all aspects of “sustainability” in the large and small senses. The curator for this conversation is Geoff Stack, of Stack Coordination. Wednesday, February 3rd, 6:30 pm. At the Windup Space, 12 W. North Avenue, Baltimore.
There will be a more formal press release to follow, but for now we are very pleased to announce that the D:center Baltimore has officially approved bylaws and articles of incorporation, elected a Board of Directors with officers, and filed for 501(c)(3) status. We’re extremely excited!
The latest round of Cyberattacks on the Baltimore D.Center have been successfully repelled by our web guru, Amber Shriver. And not a moment too soon, fast on the holidays, there are two fascinating posts by Design Center co-conspirators to point you to.
The first is from Baltimore Museum of Art Director Doreen Bolger has written a [...]
‘visual communication in a media propelled & oversaturated society’
Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave., Baltimore. Wednesday, December 2nd, 6:30-8:30 PM, an open discussion on media and culture, free event, cash bar, questions? email hollyanneburke -at- gmail.com
As Part of Baltimore Architecture Week, the AIA’s Urban Design Committee Hosted a forum on the role of design centers in urban regeneration. This event generated some interesting energy and discussion. The following are the notes of Urban Design Committee co-chair Klaus Phillipsen:
Panel Moderator Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson of the D.center. Click here to see the [...]
Organizational mappings for the D.center Baltimore, produced in the spring of ‘09 by Jillian Erhardt and Ryan LeCluyse (huge thanks to you two), from MICA’s Center for Design Practice.
Which of these potential diagrams are more compelling? More accurate? More desirable? More adaptable? Why?
Please join us for Design Conversation #12 : BIKES this Thursday evening.
Open discussion on frame building, bicycle design, bicycle infrastructure, bike collectives, bike lanes, and all things cycling. A/V system available for impromptu presentations. Free; cash bar. See attached.
Thursday October 8 2009
The Windup Space – 10 W North Ave @ Charles Street
6:30 pm – 8:30 [...]
