{"id":249,"date":"2010-10-14T04:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T11:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinerw.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2010-10-14T04:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T11:31:53","slug":"guest-post-architecture-for-change-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/2010\/10\/14\/guest-post-architecture-for-change-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"guest post: architecture for change (pt 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next up, Brandy writes about two of the speakers.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Architecture<\/p>\n

\nArchitecture for change \u2013 or at least the seeds of it.
\nBrandy H. M. Brooks
\nDirector, Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence<\/p>\n

Although I\u2019ve certainly heard of Teddy Cruz, this was the first time I\u2019d ever heard him speak, and I can\u2019t believe I missed out all this time. I\u2019m fascinated by the kind of micro-grained urbanism that he\u2019s exploring in his research and projects, and I think it\u2019s a wonderful counter to our current love affair with assembling giant parcels for a single development entity in the name of \u201ctransformative development.\u201d There\u2019s nothing particularly transformative about keeping large parcels of land in the hands of large corporations; on the other hand, allowing individual actors and small groups to build interdependent small-scale economies on smaller parcels of land offers a radical new set of opportunities for community building and self-sufficiency. (Estudio Teddy Cruz<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Photo by Mark Danielson<\/p><\/div>Dan Pitera is in the vanguard of the cosmic campaign to convince me to move to Detroit , and I love it. I can\u2019t say enough about how inspired I am by the Detroit Collaborative Design Center<\/a>\u2019s innovative approaches to neighborhood revitalization in the city; their recent work using arts as a catalyst for drawing attention and renewed identity to various areas of the city goes far beyond the typical \u201carts as an economic engine\u201d kind of project. DCDC and its partners are using the history of disinvestment in land and buildings across the city as an opportunity to take bold, innovate steps toward a new kind of physical landscape \u2013 whether in a project that transforms a whole street into a public arts gallery, or a tiny house that encourages us to rethink how much space we really need to live well and comfortably. I was also challenged by the conversation about communities in Detroit that are becoming more self-sufficient in terms of providing their own local services and economy: do we end up empowering communities by allowing them to meet their needs on their own, or isolating them from participation in the wider economy and civic life? It\u2019s not a question you can fully address in 90 minutes, but Dan wasn\u2019t afraid to acknowledge the concern or admit that no one quite knows the answer.<\/p>\n

Missed Brandy’s first post, check it out here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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