At the end of August, some of the best graffiti artists in the world descended on Nelson Street in Bristol as part of an ambitious urban street art project called See No Evil. Over the course of three days, these artists transformed previously bleak and grey spaces and their looming concrete walls into gigantic works of art.
US artists included world-renowned a href=”http://elmac.net/”>El Mac out of Los Angeles and New York based Tats Cru,
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It is an interesting time as Seattle embarks on the adventure of redesigning its waterfront. And how exciting it is for me to have a front seat!
The big question being asked by Waterfront Seattle is, “what makes a great waterfront?” Tune in to find out what the people of Seattle have to say including a presentation on the analysis and aspirations of James Corner and the rest of the waterfront design team. You can stream the presentation live from the Seattle Channel on Thursday, February 17th at 6pm.
For those of you in the Seattle area, there are some great events coming up at the University of Washington as part of the multi-disciplinary, year long series – NOW Urbanism: City Making in the 21st Century and Beyond.
This months events on November 17th and 18th revolve around The Ecology of Cities. The public lecture on the 17th will feature Randolph T. Hester from the Landscape Architecture department of the University of California at Berkeley. His lecture is titled “Environmental Urbanism: Design with Ecological Democracy.”
Following on the 18th should be an interesting discussion featuring Randolph T. Hester from the previous lecture and joined by Chris Reed, principal of STOSS and Howard Frumkin, the Dean of the UW School of Public Health. The discussion is titled, “Environmental Urbanism: Ecological Design for Healthy Cities” and is explained further on the website,
“What does it mean to envision a healthy city – one that nurtures both people and the environment? Environmental Urbanism acknowledges and embraces the relationships between people and their material surroundings. This session will explicitly consider how the human processes of city making involve an ongoing negotiation with various non-human elements– soils, water, atmosphere, and animals. By considering the intended and unintended effects of urbanization, our goal is to better understand how and to what extent we can intentionally shape future urban landscapes.”
Future lectures include:
December 8: Networked Urbanisms: Connections & Communication Across Space and Time
December 9: America’s War on Immigrants
January 13: Informal Urbanims: Slum Cities and Gobal Health
February 11: Transcultural Urbanism: Immigrants In The City
March 10: Generosity of Cities: Arts, Humanities, And The City
April 7: Next Eco-Cities: Imaginations And Futures
April 8: Next Eco-City Symposium
May 5: Social Justice, Inquality And Cities
May 26: The University And The City
