Artists: Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, Haas&Hahn, with Santa Marta favela community youth. Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009–10. Photo: © Haas&Hahn for favelapainting.com
Design with the Other 90%: CITIES opens this weekend in Portland. The exhibit is actually divided between two locations, the Museum of Contemporary Craft and the Mercy Corps Action Center. Here’s a snippet from MoCC’s site about what we can expect from this exhibit:
…explores innovative approaches in urban planning, sustainable design, affordable housing, entrepreneurship, nonformal education, and public health happening in these communities to ensure their residents a brighter future. CITIES features sixty projects, products, and proposals, organized into six themes, that shine the spotlight on communities, designers, and architects, as well as private, civic, and public organizations that are working together to address the complex issues arising from the unprecedented growth of informal settlements in emerging and developing economies.
I am very much looking forward to this show, as it ties directly in with themes I’ll be exploring as a graduate student, beginning in just a couple of weeks.
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