Katherine Wimble, Cultural Placemaking

P L C RT A E URB N A DESIGN MPAR PUBL C URBAN K IN G HISTORICAL

UBLIC RESEARCH DATA ART & STORYOLLECTION & PRESENTATION

TE LING TEMPORARY KATHERINE WIMBLE ULTI-FUNCTIONAL

SIT ANALYSIS

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In 2015, I consulted with the Seattle Department of Transportation Public Space Management Program and Capitol Hill Housing to design a study of pedestrian volumes, behavior and demographics on Pike Street with the

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goal of alleviating nighttime sidewalk congestion. In conjunction with a pilot project testing car-free nights, I delivered detailed recording sheets and instructions, and summarized results as informational graphics and

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maps. This graphic condensed survey responses into an infographic that was understandable by the public and robust enough for inclusion in SDOT’s report to the Mayor’s office on the project. Full report available here.

reference a past use. The interstitial spaces

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Seat wall (portions with bench backs)

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Top: Community participation informs design process; Middle: Historic site occupants, Palm Dairy Milk Bar; Bottom: Scale model of trellis made of straws. Right: Built trellis andon park, in daycreating and evening; photosspace by ants growing trellis, a shady Kristopher Grunnert. More photos here.

Project: Mid-Main Park Landscape Architecture: Hapa Collaborative Location: Main & 18th, Vancouver, BC Date designed: 2011â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 Date completed: 2013 Client: City of Vancouver Parks Board

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In 2016, on behalf of 4Culture in collaboration with Gage Hamilton, Urban Artworks, with support from the SODO BIA and Sound Transit, I coordinated the painting of seven, large scale murals by thirteen international artists on four buildings in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood.

It was the first phase of a three year project that will transform more than two miles of building backs along the SODO Busway into an epic street art corridor meant to be viewed in motion.

It marks the neighborhood as a portal to downtown Seattle— often visitors’ first impression of the city—fitting of the creative, vibrant city Seattle loves to be.

I arranged logistics to execute implementation of the project and related public events. Tasks included: fundraising, PR, event planning and management, booking artist travel and lodging, contract negotiation, budgeting, accounting, invoicing, scheduling, and overall coordination with partners.

PUBLIC ART Above: Mural by Casey Weldon and Syd Bee; photo 4Culture Bottom, left: Photo by muralist Mary Iverson. Bottom, middle: Mural by David Rice; photo by Wiseknave for 4Culture. Bottom, right: Mural by Cyrcle; photo 4Culture. More at: sodotrack.com.

The Society of Architectural Historians’ Archipedia is an authoritative, peer-reviewed, open-access, web-based resource on the history of the built environment, sponsored

by SAH and published by the University of Virginia with support by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In 2015-16, I performed

research and contributed 44 essays with related metadata for the State 100 project, which includes 100 Landscapes and 100 Urban Settings from across the country dealing with the most significant and landscapes and urban settings in their respective states. An excerpt from one of these essays is shown here.

San Francisco’s Chinatown As early as 1855, a section of

San Francisco became known as

‘Chinatown’—the oldest Chinatown in

North America—formed as a relatively safe enclave from racially motivated violence. In this city-within-a-city,

Baedeker’s Guide to the United States

helping close opium dens, end

gang wars, and encourage Chinese merchants to take advantage of tourist dollars by publishing an

English-language neighborhood guidebook.

into tiny apartments without indoor

twice and not repealed until 1943)

selectively enforced in Chinatown,

& STORYTELLING

neighborhood advocacy group,

the Six Companies) working as an

In 1882, Congress passed the

economic classes were squeezed

In 1870, the Cubic-Air Ordinance was

RESEARCH

opium resorts, condemning the area

people from a wide spectrum of

plumbing and inadequate ventilation.

HISTORICAL

Society formed (later known as

imposing fines and jail terms against Chinese lodging house owners for

not providing adequate air space per lodger. Additional official ordinances unfairly imposed on Chinese-

owned businesses left them with

limited economic opportunities and Chinatown became a ghetto of ten square blocks.

In the local press, Chinatown became known for crime, brothels, opium

dens, and gang violence: a picture that simultaneously horrified and titillated white San Franciscans.

Tourists, seeking romantic

authenticity, visited Chinatown with

guides who showed them paid-actors lounging in opium dens. Members

of the local Bohemian club explored the area as flânuers in appreciation of the quarter’s picturesque, anti-

modern qualities. The streets were typically American but balconies

were painted in bright colors and

were decorated with colorful lanterns, potted plants, and, what appeared

to the flânuers to be, exotic red and black hieroglyphs. During this time,

the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent

Chinese Exclusion Act (extended

banning the immigration of Chinese

laborers and making landed Chinese immigrants permanent aliens. The

Exclusion Act also made it impossible for Chinese men to bring their

wives and families to the U.S.; thus, the gender balance of Chinatown skewed overwhelmingly male, as anti-miscegenation acts made it

impossible for Chinese men to marry white women. With few families, the

power of various associations acting

as surrogate families grew, and before long, every Chinese immigrant was a member of one or more of them.

Associations united and supported members with credit, shelter and

other kinds of financial assistance.

That there were few families also affected construction; dwellings

were built to accommodate single

men, and within tightly constrained

boundaries, single room occupancy dwellings were stacked over

multiple functions. In 1885, a Police officers committee led by Willard Farrell under the authority of the

San Francisco Board of Supervisors meticulously mapped the first

floor functions of every Chinatown business, tallying the number of gambling houses, brothels, and

as “blighted.” Meanwhile, the 1893 recommended Chinatown as the

“most interesting” neighborhood,

advising, “no one should leave San Francisco without visiting it.”

In 1900, Chinatown’s population

tipped 30,000 and a Chinese man’s

death became the first San Francisco report of bubonic plague leading to the quarantining of Chinatown. The

San Francisco Board of health burned buildings in a purported attempt to

sanitize the neighborhood, but most suspected that the burning was an

attempt to drive Chinese off the highvalue real estate. After 113 Chinese had died of plague and buildings

were burnt, the community rallied via local media (particularly the Chinese Western Daily) to organize and fight for their property.

In 1904, San Francisco’s Former

Mayor, banker, and ‘Yellow-Peril’

alarmist James D. Phelan contracted Daniel Burnham to draft a City

Beautiful plan for San Francisco. Had

the plan been enacted, it would have completely eradicated Chinatown.

Community leaders fought the plan

arguing that the city would profit from tourism if Chinatown were rebuilt in a distinctive Oriental style in its present location. Less than 24 hours after

Phelan made a last-ditch presentation of his Burnham plan to City Council, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck.

The fires that followed—many of which were deliberately set by the U.S. Army in an attempt to create a backburn destroyed all of Chinatown. (cont.)

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RESEARCH Project:

Kawaki Landscape Park

Location:

Steveston, Richmond, BC, Canada

Landscape Architecture: Date designed:

Date completed: Clients:

Hapa Collaborative 2010–12

Under construction

Oris Consulting and City of Richmond, BC

1900 Hapa Collaborative developed the park plan on the site of the former Nakade Boatworks and Kawaki fish packers. Located on the south arm of the Fraser River, the site will include a multi-use development housing residential units, commercial space, live-work studios and a large community space that spills onto the park and plaza. The design work

1950 involved reinterpreting historic forms in the waterfront park; therefore, the historical site research was critical knowledge. I conducted this research using resources at the City of Richmond Archives and by interviewing living historical participants to collect oral histories. Some of this research is summarized in the time line shown above.

SITE ANALYSIS Project:

Terra Nova Play Experience

Location:

Terra Nova Rural Park, Richmond, BC, Canada

Date completed:

2013

Landscape Architecture: Hapa Collaborative Date designed: Client:

Photo (right):

2012

City of Richmond, BC

play niches

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up high

tall trees

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hill nets

above

platform hedges

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orchard

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sorting piling carving making fortresess

field

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contemplation solitary play group play playing war

running around

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building

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hide & seek group play

chasing jumping adventure risk

swimming

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burying throwing

burying

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tunneling sculpting tinkering

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solitary play

digging hiding

ditch

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looking

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jumping off

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Different kinds of play occur Working very closely with the City of at different elevations. A rich Richmond Parks, Hapa Collaborative play experience providing lots opportunities for different developed plans for the ofTerra Nova Play kinds of learning incorporates Experience: a space thatplay captures thewithin at various niches landscape. rich natural features andthe cultural history of the park within the experience of play. We conducted extensive research of precedents, play principles, and archival site records, and conducted a robust community process (which included local elementary school kids and a “Big Kids” advisory group) as well as a thorough site analysis. From that work, I created the diagram shown here, which organizes play elements for each of the park’s play spaces by elevation. This diagram was included in the “Play Book” documenting the public process, which was exhibited in a 201617 traveling exhibition Extraordinary Playspaces exploring the latest thinking in playground design. 72

physical challenges

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Project: Location: Materials: Date designed: Date completed: Client:

FURNITURE

Terra Nova Benches Terra Nova Rural Park, Richmond, BC, Rough-hewn fir, weathering steel, concrete 2010â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 2011 City of Richmond Parks

DESIGN The Terra Nova benches are a series of modular designs from which the Richmond Parks Department could select a type to suit various conditions in Terra Nova Rural Park. Each bench was designed to be constructed from dimensionally-thick materials and

fittings in character with a farm landscape. In 2011, a prototype bench was built and installed in multiple locations, each engraved with either the name of the crop historically grown in that particular bench location or a quote from the recorded oral history of the land.

MULTI-FUNCTIONAL

DESIGN

Section (above) and rendering (below) for River’s Edge Landscape Park, 2012 (Hapa Collaborative)

On the north arm of the Fraser River, Hapa Collaborative’s landscape design does not deny the industrial site that has been, but acknowledges and responds to needs for ecological function, vitality and beauty within a lived urban reality. For thousands of years before, the Wild and Scratchley sloughs branched open onto this site. Here, still visible scars of the site’s two lost sloughs

are traced in symbolic form and revealed with water. Framed by the Dyke Trail, the landscape park features circuits to walk, places to inhabit, pockets to explore, friends to meet, spaces to play, reasons to stay. Larger turf covered spaces accommodate occasional crowds drawn by community events and more intimate vegetated spaces make room for picnickers and game players.

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PUBLIC

PROGRAMS In 2013 and 2014, I directed the Seattle Design Festival with the mission of bringing the public, designers, and representatives of public agencies together to understand how design makes life better. To execute the Festival, I mobilized and led hundreds of volunteers, planned programs, and liaised with partners, financial

supporters, staff, volunteers, service providers and the public.

I developed and executed an integrated communications plan that resulted in doubling Festival attendance, quadrupling the number of programs, generating eleven times more visitors to the Festival website and an estimated 4,000,000 media impressions

Project:

Seattle Design Festival: Design in Motion

Presenters: Design in Public and AIA Seattle Location:

Occidental Plaza Seattle, Washington

Date:

September 2014

Attendees: 10,000

(with zero advertising expenses).

Throughout the campaign, I developed key assets to speak to multiple audiences. Often, I needed to translate complicated work of skilled designers into content that was accessible and digestible by a public who were not necessarily accustomed to design-thinking.

Project:

Interurban Trail Mile-Markers

Location:

Interurban Trail, Shoreline, WA

Artwork:

Materials:

Date designed:

The Unearth Collective

Stainless steel and paint in-fill 2012

Date completed: 2012 Client:

City of Shoreline

PUBLIC ART Referencing the Interurban Trail

historical figure into the present

we replicated a selection of

lost and gained in industrialization

land’s past use as a train line,

rationalized drawings from a 1904 manual of hand signals used by

railroad workers. In the past, the language of hand and lantern

positions gave signalmen a ‘voice,’ allowing them to communicate visually over noise and across

distance. Today, this signalman maintains his ‘voice’ by way of

announcing the miles. But what else is he telling us? By propelling this

day, we question what has been and the rationalization of the

workplace, in which all of us are

entwined. By digitally redrawing this obviously old image, using the old trick of trompe l’oeil,

presenting it within an old tradition of etching, and using modern

fonts, color palettes, and materials, we reference what been lost and gained in modern production.

URBAN INTERVENTIONS “Escape,” Safety flags, Desire Lines, 2012

“Quick Fix,” Synthetic turf, Desire Lines, 2012

Project:

Desire Lines

Location:

Meridian Park, Shoreline, WA

Artwork:

Materials: Date designed:

Date completed: Exhibition:

The Unearth Collective

Flags, powdered pigment, shoes, synthetic turf, tape 2012 2012

Site-Specific 2012, 4Culture

The Unearth Collective located significant

By offering this mapped route through

Park neighborhood of Shoreline and

experienced on a regular basis, we

desire lines within the Meridian

connected them to form a walking route

(approximately 3.1 miles (5K)) through the

area. Along the walking route, we created temporary installations that highlighted these pedestrian-made lines. A printed

guide of the route, along with site-specific historic narratives and ‘facts’ about sites along the route and QR codes linking to “Decoder,” Pigment, Desire Lines, 2012

an optional walk soundtrack, were made available to the public.

spaces that Shoreline residents

presented these everyday sites from new and unexpected angle. We unearthed

hidden aspects of the site, reinterpreted and presented them to the public, with the hope that participants would learn something new about the everyday

fabric of their city and develop a deeper awareness of their own pedestrian

experience as well as the experience of others.

“Disappearing Stair,” Shoes, Desire Lines, 2012

TEMPORARY

ART

“By Color” Captured by Google Satellite, 2011.

Project: Artwork: Location: Materials: Date designed: Date completed: Exhibition:

By Color The Unearth Collective Smoke Farm on the Stillaguamish River, WA River rocks found on-site 2011 2011 Not to Scale: Lo-Fi Arts Festival at Smoke Farm