Take a listen as students give insight into the designs for projects they’ve created to solve one of the many social concerns that effect city residents.
Alex with his Anti-gravity Dome
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Actions: What you can do with the city
An exhibition/book/website that shares proposals and projects of people who are activating their city
Actions: What you can do with the city
A proposal for the reprogramming of parking garages: the garages are modified by Office of Unsolicited Architecture (OUA) trucks to shelter homeless people at night.
Postcards from my Portland
Students were asked to make postcards about what they love about Portland. Each postcard includes a photograph of the student holding a sign about what they love in a location that is appropriate for their topic.
See all the postcards HERE
Utopias in progress.
We’re working our our utopias, but before we reveal our ideas, take a look at some of the other great ideas already in motion that tackle the same issues!
Energy
The Green Micro Gym, a gym powered by working out
Community Building
City Repair helps communities realize their dream projects to build communities, increase green space and make neighborhoods safer.
Homelessness
Michael Rakowitz collaborates with homeless individuals to make inflatable housing that is inflated and heated by the exhaust vents from building’s HVAC systems.
Repurposing
What to do with an old raised railroad line in Manhattan? Turn it into a park!
Food
Portland Fruit Tree Project invites people who have fruit trees in their yard that they aren’t harvesting to allow volunteers to come and harvest the food and donate some of it to low-income families and food shelters
Speaking of cities…
Worldchanging.com is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to solutions-based journalism about the planetary future.
They cover topics such as politics, the planet and cities.
Check out some of the exciting ideas that are floating around the global community and get inspired about our future!
Fluxus Poem Map
After learning about the Fluxus International Art Movement of the 1960’s, John Cage, Yoko Ono, and Chance Procedures as a technique for discovering new ways of seeing and experiencing, we made our own instructions for walking back to the school using “Mad-Libs” as a way of adding some Chance Procedures into the mix. The results was some times profound, some times silly, but lots of fun.
To make your own Fluxus Poem Map, download the PDF here
How Did You Get Here
Today we asked the question “How Did You Get Here”, but weren’t just asking “which road did you take”. Instead, using our expanded vocabulary about types of maps, we tried our best to draw a map of the events and circumstances in our lives that brought us here, to this class.
The United States — not by geography, but rather social ties
Maps of the united states re-invisioned using cell phone calls.
Making My City
Welcome to our class!
PNCA Creativity Labs: Making My City 