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COLLABORATION WITH

THE STUDENTS FOR THE NEW URBANISM 

Charrettes and Design Thinking

As I began to seek situations to collaborate and test my ideas for arts thinking, I discovered the group Students for the New Urbanism. Students for the New Urbanism is an intercollegiate coalition focused on urban planning, with national chapters dedicated to linking students and opportunities to facilitate community.  My involvement entails immersing myself as an artist in the group, participating in many meeting with them to rethink the charrette process though an arts thinking lens, a charrette usually entails many designers coming together to solve issues in architecture and urban planning.

The culmination of these discussions was a charrette event we planned that intended to reimagine uses for an old abandoned hospital called Cuneo in Uptown.  We re-framed this tradition by inviting and including professionals from outside the design disciplines, such as artists, art therapists, arts administrators and cultural workers.

I made this short run risograph poster print showing what we discovered were crossovers between arts thinking and design thinking, such as prototyping, inserting feedback loops, using visual languages such as drawings and model building to explain ideas, and generatively brainstorming.