lisa korpan selected work
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research / curriculum
Water Cultures: Barcelona
Responsive Design Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, July 2009; Proposed installation site: Hotel Barcel贸 Raval, Barcelona intervention and study model (2) Proposed shower decal (3) Proposed Rooftop intervention
(1) Proposed lobby
(4) Proposed hallway intervention
WATER CULTURES: BARCELONA a case study in urban ecotourism
How can tourism encourage visitors and hosts to become disseminators of sustainable practices? Residents of an urban ecosystem develop certain behaviors to survive within their environment, and have the potential to share their experience with visitors. Because of water’s scarcity in the region, efficient water consumption is a necessary part of daily life in Barcelona. An international tourism center, Barcelona is in a key position to become a leader in sustainable water advocacy, inspiring its visitors to engage in more thoughtful habits. As primary hosts of the city’s visitors, hotels have the potential to take a leading role. How can the hotel environment motivate a visitor to change his behavior? In July 2011, 10 design students and professionals came together for the Water Cultures: Barcelona workshop, to design an exhibition for the Hotel Barceló Raval. The proposed interventions will create new social networks within the hotel and celebrate sustainable behavior. Each visitor will have an opportunity to become a ‘node’ in the network that initiates change.
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design activism Chicago Art Department, 10.2010
(1) “Ice-Craft: Third Coast”, Great Lakes Nation Exhibit,
(2,4) “Ice-Craft: Frozen Messages” series, as part of Call to Action: A Moving Design Intervention Water,
Summer 2010. Published in Call to Action, 02.2011
(3) Ice
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ICE-CRAFT: FROZEN MESSAGES Chicagoland residents rely on Great Lakes water for life, withdrawing over 1 billion gallons of fresh water from Lake Michigan each day. Since Chicago’s reversal of the Chicago River in 1900, the lake’s water is used, treated, and diverted to the Mississippi River, and ultimately to the Gulf of Mexico. This water is not returned to the lake. Reflection upon this chain of events provokes an urge to pause this cycle, to delay the loss. Each gallon of Lake Michigan water pours from the tap to create 39 modules of ice. The water is intercepted, and a dialogue is initiated. Temporary messages – water becomes ice becomes water. A final message, “precious,” is placed along the shore. Eight gallons of water, cast frozen, and carried to the boundary between city and lake. The flow is (re)reversed, and the water is returned to its original source.
“Precious” , August 28, 2010, 1:30 PM Oak Street Beach Boardwalk, Chicago
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design activism
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competitions
(1)“Ministry of Clean Air”, Honorable Mention, The Air We Breathe, exhibited
06.2011 (2) “24:7”, City Lights, 05.2004 (3) “Wild Chicago”, Recommended Scheme, The Graham Foundation’s 21st Century Lakefront Park Competition, exhibited 03.2004 (4) “Stretch,” Lyceum Mobile Home Design, 05.2003
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The Ministry of Clean Air, a Moving Design proposal , June 2011
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competitions ministry of clean air
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student work
(1)“Coverhood”, Adam Reid Janusz, From Nothing, SAIC Spring 2006, Negotiated
Localities Exhibit, 2007 (2) Soft Space Study, Rachel Clark, Elizabeth Wilson, SAIC Fall 2005 (3) “Canal Street market”, Ben Ward, Senior Project, Columbia College Chicago, Spring 2010 (4) “Lightbox”, Tristan Young, Fundamentals of 3D Design, Columbia College Chicago, Fall 2013
Enlarged Section:Earthbox Cultivation Zone
Mina Azarnosh, “cOo� City Farming Restaurant Senior Project D: Working Drawings Columbia College Chicago, Spring 2010
Section: Vertical Farming Zone
student work working drawings
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built work
1 Design Team, Langston Hughes School and Skinner School,  SMNG-A Architects: Chicago, IL,
completed 2009 2 Design Team, Montgomery Residence, Vinci-Hamp Architects: Montgomery Building, Chicago, 2007 3 Construction Team, Rural Studio Exhibit, Barcelona, Spain, June 2003 4 Design/Build Team, Stevenson Lounge, University of Illinois at Chicago, completed May 2003
Near North Montessori School (NNMS), SMNG-A Architects
Renovation: Design Development Team and CDs (2008-09) New addition: Schematic Design Team (2009)
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built work near north montessori