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Monday, April, 2009
6:00pm to 8:30pm
University Center at Point Park University
414 Wood Street - Downtown Pittsburgh
Walter Hood
Landscape Architect, Architect, and Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design presents "Multiplying and Enlarging - Improvising Ecologies"
Through his teaching, writing, and practice, Walter Hood advocates the art of “improvisation” as a design process for making urban architecture and landscapes. He believes improvisation avoids hegemony, and instead demands creativity and collaborative thinking. Neighborhood development, community planning, and citizen participation – particularly ethnic groups – are central to his approach. “There are many roles for the community designer within the context of the city and neighborhood building: facilitator, translator, instigator, advocate, and even provocateur, to name a few,” Walter Hood writes in PLACES Journal. Ultimately, he believes the work may be less about evaluating design than reframing the conversation about people and the environment. A recent interest of Walter Hood’s seems particularly relevant to Pittsburgh: how, staying in the community scale, you look at the larger scale and understand its role on the small scale. Indeed, making the neighborhood part of the larger, and advocating for that. Come hear Walter Hood, and join our panelists in discussing how his community design and scenario building approach can inform a visioning process for Pittsburgh. MODERATOR
PANELISTS
| Grant Oliphant
President/CEO, The Pittsburgh Foundation
Carol R. Brown
Founding President, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Walter Hood
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Anne-Marie Lubenau, AIA
President/CEO, Community Design Center of Pittsburgh
Rob Pfaffman, AIA
Principal, Pfaffman + Associates PC
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