Please join us for Design Conversation 21: FESTIVALS at Artscape!
Saturday July 17th 2010
Charles Street Garage (across from the Charles Theatre) – 1714 N Charles Street
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Design Conversation 21 will feature Karin Bacon. Karin Bacon began her career as Festival Director for the City of New York, where she originated citywide celebrations [...]
Come to the Windup Space, at 12 W. North Ave., Wednesday, May 5th at 6:30 pm for Design Conversation #19: Streets/Art (part 1)
This is part one of a two part Design Conversation on public art. This first one, curated by Fred Scharmen, will look at aspects of public art that occur outside and between the [...]
D:center Baltimore joined MICA’s Center for Design Thinking and Urbanite magazine in co-sponsoring a panel discussion on humanitarian design on March 11. The event, which I moderated, brought together some of the top designers working in the field today including Emily Pilloton of Project H. I recapped the evening in my monthly column online at [...]
I am pleased to inform you that The Yes Men Fix the World will be screening this Friday, March 19th at the Senator Theatre at 7pm!
For trailer and film info/screening info, check out: http://www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com/
if you are not familiar with the Yes Men you should be.
Check out their past projects here.
A few words from Mike of [...]
This is just a quick note to send you all to check out our flickr page, where we’re starting to add some pics from last thursday’s panel discussion at MICA. Many thanks to our moderator, panelists, co-sponsors, and audience! Stay tuned for a proper writeup later this week, but for now, see this recap at [...]
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
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8pm – midnight
This year’s fundraiser will be at The Maryland Club, continuing our tradition of featuring an architecturally significant space that few have the opportunity to see. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to spend the evening in one of Baltimore’s historic private clubs while enjoying the best Groundhog Day party in the [...]
http://justmetropolis.doodlekit.com/home/call_for_papers_and_presentations
Call for Proposals – Deadline March 1, 2010
Presentations, Posters and Workshops
As cities and towns around the world grapple with the impacts of multiple and concurrent crises, progressive planners, urbanists, activists, and citizens face the challenge of transforming crises into opportunities to advance profound changes in the way we plan, build, design, live in, and govern [...]
This holiday season, the Design Conversations program of D:Center Baltimore joined 14 other small Baltimore arts initiatives as recipients of surprise funding from the Baltimore Community Foundation. No one knows exactly where this money is coming from or how we were nominated, but I’m sure we’ll soon make sure it is well spent. Here’s to [...]
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 [...]
