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Events, Lectures + Exhibitions
2007 Events
- April / May 2007: Accounting for Health in Planning Policy and Site Design
- Monday, April 30: Jim Durrett on Metropolitan Atlanta, from Poster Child for Sprawl to Laboratory for Innovations in Growth, Coffman Memorial Union, Campus Club, Conference Room ABC, 4:00-6:00 PM
- Saturday, April 21: Leslie Weisman, NJIT, A Women's School of Architecture
- Thursday, April 19: CHI Video Screening and Reception, 100 Rapson Hall, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM. The film will start at 5:15 PM, a reception will follow the film.
- Tuesday, March 20: CANCELLED Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Cars and Communities, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Coffman Memorial Union, Campus Club Conference Room ABC
- Tuesday, March 20: Active Transportation and Facility Planning
- Monday, March 19: CANCELLED Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Hamilton-Baillie Associates, Shared Space – A Fresh Approach to Reconciling People, Places, and Traffic, 100 Rapson Hall, 5:45pm
- Friday, March 9: FULL Wendy Sarkissian, Beyond the Open House and Focus Group: Community Engagement Methods that Really Work, 9:00-11:00 a.m., Room 180, Hubert H. Humphrey Center
- Thursday, March 8 : Stefanie Deluca, Johns Hopkins, Switching Social Contexts: Housing Mobility, Neighborhood Effects and Youth, 10 am, main conference room of the Minnesota Population Center http://www.pop.umn.edu/
- Monday, February 19 : CANCELLED Ken Reardon, Making Waves Along the Mississippi: Pursuing Equity Planning in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 100 Rapson Hall, 5:45 pm
- Thursday, February 1: Reception Celebrating College of Design Faculty Publications and Juried Exhibits in 2005 and 2006, Design Center Gallery, 4-6:30. Exhibition of book cover art remains on display though February 2007.
- Tuesday, January 30: Health Impact Assessment for Planners
- Wednesday, January 24: Brown Bag Presentation by Metropolitan Design Center 2006 Undergraduate Travel Fellowships, Thomas Hilde, Jorge Salcedo, Richard Crockett 12:15-1:30, Rapson Hall.
- Friday, January 19: Reception for Exhibition of Metropolitan Design Center 2006 Undergraduate Travel Fellowships in the CDes Library, 6:00-7:30.
2006 Events
- Wednesday, November 8: Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Workshop, Dr. Wendy Sarkissian
- November 6: Safety and Public Spaces: The Role of Urban Planning
- October 26: Comprehensive Planning for Healthy Cities and Communities
- October 14-15: Making River Connections Design Workshop. Workshop participants will work in teams to tell river stories that highlight connections between the river, the site, and the campus.
- September 25: Kathy Dorgan, Dorgan Associates, Community Design
- September 12: Safe Routes to School and School Siting
- Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22: H.W.S. Cleveland Symposium; Myths and Realities of Ecology, Design, and Ecosystem Health in the Metropolitan Landscape
- Monday, April 3: Anne Vernez Moudon, Professor, University of Washington
- Tuesday, March 28: Great Conversation between Nic Retsinas, Director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and Ann Forsyth, Director, Metropolitan Design Center
- Monday, March 20 CANCELLED: Margaret Crawford, Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory, Harvard Design School
- Monday, February 20:
Alex Krieger, Chan Krieger Associates, Cambridge, and Professor in Practice of Urban Design, Harvard Design School: http://www.chankrieger.com - Monday, January 23:
Ken Reardon, Cornell University
2005 Events
- Monday, October 31: Feng Shui and the Urban Fabric, Alex Stark, Room 225 at Noon.
- Wednesday, October 19: The Diversified Waterfront, Peter Brown, Fellow, Metropolitan Design Center, Design at Noon
- Wednesday, October 12: Space, Marginalization, and Inclusion, Panel Discussion at the Institute for Advanced Studies, with Gail Dubrow and Erika Lee. Organized by Ann Forsyth, Former Director
- Monday, September 26 - Tuesday, September 27: Building Healthy Communities for Children: The Physical and Social Environments. Co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Design Center for CDES
- Thursday, June 2 - Sunday, June 5: Planners Network Conference on Design
2004 Events
- September 27: Health Implications of Community Design:Moving to Combat Obesity. Former Design Center Director Ann Forsyth will be running an all-afternoon workshop in this conference focused on city design (and redesign), DoubleTree Hotel Park Place Hotel, Minneapolis
- September 22: Can Sustainability be Designed? The Limits of Urban Form, Richard Milgrom, Design at Noon
- August 14th, 2004-January 7th, 2005: Recent Design Center work is highlighted in the exhibition Accommodating Density: Housing in the Twin Cities, Design Center Gallery, lower level Rapson Hall
- June 4-July 3: Images from the Design Center Image Bank and educational materials about housing in the exhibition The Next American City,Stevens Square Center for the Arts, 1905 3rd Avenue South, Minneapolis
- April 28: Difference: In Theory, and in Your Back Yard, John Archer, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and Design Center Faculty Fellow, Design at Noon
- February 11: Affordable Housing--Why and How?, Jim Solem, Senior Fellow, University of Minnesota, Design at Noon
- January 22–July 16: An exhibition celebrating the launch of the Design Center Image Bank, Key Words/Key Images: The Design Center Image Bank, in the Design Center Gallery, lower level of Rapson Hall
2003 Events
- September 23–24: Design Center Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Michael J. Shiffer, Ph.D.
- August 22–January 8: Exhibition of Design Center research,Community Parkways: An Urban Design Survey of Green Streets in the Twin Cities, in the Design Center Gallery, lower level of Rapson Hall
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