Community

Interactions between City Planners, Artists, Scientists and Citizens

"The better constituted the state, the more public affairs outweigh private ones in the minds of citizens.... Under a bad government, no one cares to take even a step to attend them: no one takes an interest in what is done there, since it is predictable that the general will won't prevail, and so finally domestic concerns absorb everything."

-Rousseau, "The Social Contract"

• De-privatizing Public Discourse, The Community Wall
  Elements: Kinetic Typography, Pirate Re-Broadcasts
• Community Discourse
  Ample Opportunity III: Comments and transcripts, including referenced images and information, from the summer workshop.
• Reclaim-Develop-Restore, The Changing Landscape Wall
  A series of concept boards, reflecting various options for the creation of a public space, are at the heart of the discourse between community members, the steering committee and city planners.
• Final Boards
  Workshop results combined with the final boards; these boards represent the options chosen at the charette, summer 1999.
• Workshop Results
  During the Opening, community members, artists, city planners and private interests met in an open forum regarding the development, reclamation and maintenance of the Nine Mile Run Greenway, and plans for the implementation of public space.
• Ample Opportunity: A Community Dialogue
  Past Public, Private and Government discourse on Nine Mile Run