ROBIN LAMBERT
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CONTACT lambertdsgn@gmail.com 919-576-9390 www.linkedin.com/in/robinlambert1 www.issuu.com/robinpatr
The idea, the experience, the interaction… In the tensions between architecture’s bounding of space and light and interior design’s enhancing and pushing against those boundaries, lie three aesthetic questions central to good design. Well, three of particular interest to me: Do the ideas have value? interest? appeal? Do the spatial experiences gratify the body? intrigue the mind? bolster the spirit? Do the interactions with and in the space promote well-being for the individual? between individuals? among groups? It’s possible to muddle responses with poor design, but any design ignores the questions to its own peril. And to ours. These questions led me to design school to educate my lifelong practice of making spaces. But I had recognized them earlier in the many, varied communities where I worked with residents imagining and creating better places and doing it together—practicing democracy and design thinking at the same time. It’s where I saw how space really matters and that the best design— and its making—embodies some joy and sparks some fun. Robin Lambert
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NEW CONCEPTS Spatial Typology for Campus Planning
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Design Thinking — Ability to see possibility where it’s not obvious, reframe problems for fresh understanding, and create new, humane solutions that address multiple challenges.
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we can’t decide… if they would just… until so-and-so does… no one listens to us…
Prospect was fun and we had lots of new ideas. ...We made each others’ ideas better. ...It helped us figure out what we really want, and we saw what we want reflected in the designs. ...We want to help lead this in Harlan County. —Participants, Prospect Harlan
© 2013 Robin Lambert. Updated and reissued 2017. All rights reserved.
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PROSPECT
THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
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Collective Capacity + Place-Specific Design. Prospect is a public engagement and design process that builds collective capacity among communities and designers to co-create happier, more democraticallyoriented places and to design supportive community and public spaces.
Prospect was piloted in Harlan, Kentucky.
PROSPECT: THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES 1
PLACE-SPECIFIC COMMUNITY DESIGN …
PROSPECT
THE OVERVIEW Prospect is a dual-purpose process of public engagement and design that helps strengthen local communities as it informs the design of public spaces.
PLACEMAKING: THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
DEEP GOALS THEN SPACE DESIGN • Explore desired experiences and outcomes. • Grow skills and spaces to improve local life.
+ COLLECTIVE DEMOCRATIC CAPACITY
MAKE THINGS HAPPEN TOGETHER
MAKE TO IMAGINE • Discover possibilities. • Depersonalize ideas. • Reveal common ground. • Create individually and as a group.
• Get unstuck. • Grow networks of reciprocal relationships. • Build broad skills of creativity and innovation. • Leverage local strengths.
MAKE A BETTER FUTURE • Community: expansive inclusive connections that nurture individuality and bridge difference for freedom and equality. • Democratic: governed by and benefitting all. Space design begins after shared goals are identified and clarified.
DESIGN: COMMUNITY & PUBLIC SPACE GOALS • Spaces that foster collective democratic capacity. • Community Space: social, cultural, and economic life. • Public Space: inclusive, accessible, respectful and fair civic life.
PROSPECT: THEORY AND CONCEPT 2 | 3
PROSPECT Thriving Democratic Communities Need. Communities need both practices and spaces that in natural, everyday ways promote the interpersonal connections that make private life more satisfying and democratic society more possible. Yet many public engagement processes fail meaningful participation, generate few new ideas, intensify division and exclusion, and yield generic uninspired spaces.
PLACEMAKING: THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
Collective Capacity + Place-Specific Design Response. Prospect aims to improve the design and inclusiveness of public space through a process that strengthens broad-based creative engagement around community goals. Grounded in the imaginative energies of residents, Prospect supports participants to reframe challenges, recognize strengths in each other, discover shared values and goals, generate and transform ideas together, and enhance and understand design process and solutions.
PROSPECT: THEORY AND CONCEPT 24 || 35 PROSPECT PILOT: THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
PROSPECT GATHERINGS
PROSPECT PROCESS
COLLECTIVE CAPACITY
THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY Generative, lnclusive, Equitable, Meaningful
Pilot: 8 Gatherings • 30+ Particiants. Some 30 people participated in Prospect Harlan, inspiring design direction with creative insight, clear goals, and good information.
PLACEMAKING: THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
MAKE. THEN TALK. ACTIVATING CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT
In Prospect, participants make object responses to prompts. Making helps release habitual thinking and reveals unexpected ideas.
Prospect Pilot, Harlan, Kentucky
NOT A CHARETTE. AND NOT A SWOT.
Communities in crisis need processes that disentrench conflict, yield fresh ideas, and build collective capacity for regenerative activity. Charettes often focus on design features rather than core community goals, and SWOTS struggle to move from analysis to creative action.
Prospect leverages the community’s own creativity to discover shared values and aspirations and to generate new ideas. Participants strengthen skills to work together as they translate the experiences they want into goals, actions, and insights for the design of place-specific public and community spaces. Designer learns—and floats ideas—through participation.
PROSPECT PILOT: MEANINGFUL, CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT 6 | 7
HARLAN
PROCESS PROSPECT
VACANT LOT
PLACE-SPECIFIC
COURTHOUSE
POPULATION, 2012 Harlan: 1,754 • Harlan County: 24,575
ECONOMICS
Harlan Co.
Per Capita Income: $15,224 Retail Sales: $ 6,793 Median Housing: $53,500
U.S. $ 27,334 $ 12,990 $188,400
PLACEMAKING: THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
MODERN ELECTRIC
PROSPECT PILOT: HARLAN, KENTUCKY Prospect was piloted in Harlan, a Kentucky coal county with rich history and culture, a long struggle with high levels of poverty, and severe economic dislocation as coal has declined. Prospect offers a framework for exploring what people most care about and for energizing collective action to move ideas forward.
LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
LEXINGTON
HARLAN COUNTY
SITES [chosen after process] “Modern Electric” Building. A vacant former depar tment store needs a new purpose to suppor t a thriving downtown. Vacant Lot. The lot frames the city’s longest vista and opens a window of sunlight downtown. —MODERN ELECTRIC: FOR SALE—
—VACANT LOT: FOR SALE— PROSPECT PILOT: PLACE-SPECIFIC 8 | 9
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PROSPECT DESIGN Community Space A strategic re-use proposal for the Modern Electric Building
PROSPECT HARLAN GOALS:
Achievable. Use local skills and resources to transform vacant space for community use. Urgent. Protect a beautiful downtown icon. Community Life. Provide flexible space for social, cultural, and small business activities and an economy for a important anchor building.
PLACEMAKING: THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
Current Conditions
“ENCOURAGE CONVERSATION.”
“PLACES TO HANG OUT, EAT.”
“WE CAN DO IT OURSELVES.”
ACHIEVABLE — QUICKLY — WITH LOCAL RESOURCES Stools/Work Tables: Closed mine offices and commissaries; former office furnishings; safe, servicable donations. Focal Lighting/Ceiling and Wall: Constructed by students. Rubber Mats. Define space, reduce noise. Local Art Work: On display, rotated; art sales; art boards. Food Kiosks: Shared among local vendors.
“HELP MAKE MONEY.”
“INVITING TO EVERYONE.”
“Right” Problems Addressed. Residents want more social and cultural activity and more options for eating out. Yet the local restaurant economy is weak. g.r.i.t. offers flexible space for food kiosks and inviting away-from-home interaction. Food Kiosk Versatility. Welcome. Comfortable, flexible furnishings accommodate varied functions and with an unvarnished aesthetic that communicates welcome and comfort.
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HARLAN PROSPECT GOALS:
“OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN TOWN.”
“CASUAL INTERACTION.”
PROSPECT DESIGN Public Space Aspirational. Offer a public space proposal to showcase Harlan assets and inspire residents.
PROSPECTIVE VIEW HARLAN DOWNTOWN PARK
PLACEMAKING: THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
FLAT SITE
SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
Maximize rare assets in mountainous terrain. Create a community “lawn” that feels safe and inviting.
“COMMUNITY ARTS & PERFORMANCES.”
“CHILD-FRIENDLY BUT FOR ADULTS.”
“SHOWS PRIDE IN HARLAN COUNTY.”
PLACE AND SPACE
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PROSPECT framework applies design thinking to the challenge of uncovering deep issues and goals when the client is a group.
PRE-DESIGN RESEARCH Identify “right” issues.
DESIGNER
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Explore core values | needs. Surface pre-conscious sense.
Theoretical Model The Why. Groups need ways to discover common values and goals related to their shared spaces.
DESIGN THINKING Re-define problems. Connect across ideas. Create new solutions.
THE NEED.
The What. A design thinking approach to group process that engages participants in creative expression to discover core issues and new options.
Identify Deep Issues. Grow Capacity.
CREATIVE PROSPECTS COLLECTIVE CAPACITY
COMMUNITY
Grow skills and intentions.
Imagine possibility. Generate ideas.
Practice collaboration.
The How. Participants make object responses to prompts, respond to each other, extend and connect ideas, and build new vision and skills.
DESIGNING WITH A CLIENT GROUP Fresh Ideas and Valuable Information
Move beyond logic.
Build trust and insight.
CHALLENGES In Group Process
SOLUTION
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Pre-Determined Not Apt
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Maldistribution/ Scarcity
Misidentified
Prospect supports client groups to explore their spatial needs and develop insight about what they really want. FAR RIGHT: Participants in Prospect, Harlan, Kentucky
PLACEMAKING: THRIVING DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES
FEAR
EXCLUSION Challenges are Mutually Reinforcing
People and Possibilities
Threat and Blame
Challenges Block Progress, Productivity
PROSPECT process builds a group’s capacity to leverage its own
PROSPECT design goals are addressed
creativity, enhance its skills, and work together for good outcomes.
last and grow out of new group insights.
THE RESPONSE.
Prospect Process: A Model.
PROSPECT GOALS
CREATE
RESPOND
Novel prompts: needs | issues.
Build on each others’ ideas.
Unleash Imagination.
Strengthen Community.
Make objects in response.
Spark new ideas.
Leverage Design Thinking.
Build Collective Capacity.
Move beyond logic to creativity.
Discover shared values.
REFLECT
CONNECT
Capture insight.
Query emergent ideas.
Make meaning together.
Strengthen relationships.
Sift and build out ideas.
Notice unexpected links.
Prepare to Innovate.
THE OUTCOMES.
Prospect Design.
Clarity on Core Goals. New Paths Forward.
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Create with new prompts, merge ideas, move to action.
PROSPECT Core Principles COMMUNITY. All communities have strengths. Build on them. CREATIVITY. Everyone is creative. Activate and nurture creativity. DESIGN THINKING. Re-frame challenges for new solutions. DESIGNER. Participate, prompt, listen, observe, then design. Participants contribute meaningful input for design solutions, deepen their understanding of design process, and use core skills of innovatation. PROSPECT PROCESS THEORETICAL MODEL 14 | 15
HARMONICS INNOVATIVE WORKPLACE Lexington Fayette Urban County Government
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LARGE CONFERENCE ROOM: Informal table configuration.
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HARMONICS INNOVATIVE WORKPLACE Lexington Fayette Urban County Government
Project Requirements New municipal offices with space for 18 staff. Located in a former hotel. Nine foot hard ceilings throughout. To be presented as rendered typicals.
LE XINGTON HEART OF THE BLUEGRASS
PREVIOUS: Large Conference, informal table configuration. ABOVE: Main Office; 18 employees and constituent service. INTERIORS
Project Development. Lexington mayor Jim Gray invited design proposals for re-vamped offices to improve municipal government’s functionality and image. Gray and office staff members identified key goals as interaction, openness, professionalism, and space for a leading city official with hearing-impairment. Design Response. The concept Harmonics captures the tensions that characterize successful democratic governance as well as the dual urban-rural identities of Lexington and Fayette County. The design fosters collaboration, signals transparency, and speaks to place.
Design Issues: Function + Image Interaction Staff and constituent collaboration Adjacencies • Convenience
Audibility Ambient noise management Acoustic Panels • Carpet
Visibility Transparency in government Sight Lines • Translucent Dividers
Image Professional comfortable offices Confidence • Accessibility
Glass-enclosed work space reduces noise interference and preserves visibility for hearingimpaired staff.
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HARMONICS INNOVATIVE WORKPLACE
Open Office: Balance = Collaboration + Focus Innovative offices are characterized by collaboration, which promotes information-sharing, cross-pollination, and interdisciplinary productivity. However, innovation also requires concentration and uninterrupted focus for individuals and small groups. Some individuals and duties need high levels of quiet and freedom from visual and auditory distraction. Renders, L to R: Small Conference Room supports focused group collaboration and meetings; Temporary Individual Focus Space. Photos: Downtown Lexington; Rural Fayette County.
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Place: Reflect and Enhance Dual Identities Lexington Regional Urban Hub Broad Economy Liveability Awards
Fayette County Horse Capital Bourbon Capital Lush Landscape
Photos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cityscape_of_Lexington,_Kentucky; http://www.wineonthekeyboard.com/2008/06/12/kentucky-road-trip/.
Recruitment Brochure Cover, University of Kentucky, School of Interiors. An image from this project.
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Destination Dining, Fulton Market, Chicago
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…across the world, across the city, across the plate.
PROJECT | SITE Destination dining in a century-old food storage and transportation district with an emerging restaurant scene. Site is the first floor of a1900s-era brick warehouse. Fulton Market, Chicago
Goals and Expression Fulton Market is a still-active, century-old international food transportation/warehousing district. In recent years, chefs have begun opening smallish specialty restaurants. Patrons tend to spend entire evenings in the district, often making a night out at one establishment. btw responds with experiential and social variety in a single destination. Design draws on the district’s economy of spanning and mixing food traditions and unifies organic and graphic elements with visual texture. The menu, based on chef ’s daily finds in the district, is, by-the-way, fully gluten-free.
PREVIOUS: Dining and Lounge ABOVE CENTER: Interior Bar; RIGHT: Bar Dining. INTERIORS
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Dining zones flank the central bar, designed for before-dinner or late-evening relaxation. 4,324 SF interior dining.
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INDOOR | OUTDOOR Maximize opportunities for al fresco dining when weather permits. Bring nature indoors with bridging elements and references.
CANOPY
EXTERIOR ELEVATION, NORTH. Canopy bridges interior and exterior dining and preserves the historic iron frontice.
ABOVE: The site, Fulton Market, Chicago. CENTER: Sidewalk dining at btw. INTERIORS
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INTERIOR ELEVATION, NORTH. Canopy delineates interior dining space, and connects to sidewalk cafe. Doors can be opened in warm weather.
CANOPY DINING LOUNGE GROUP DINING
BAR BAR DINING | CHEF DINING
PATRONS
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…across the world, across the city, across the plate.
FURNISHINGS | MATERIALITY Juxtapose modern seating and fireorbs with organic bar enclosure. Maintain wood plank floors; install wool carpet in lounge for warmth.
CENTER: Chef’s Dining Room, focused on chef-style dining and business lunches. INTERIORS
SEATING: Haworth Round Arm sofa; Herman Miller Sofia chair: Philippe Starck Passion chair; Herman Miller She-Said chair.
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BAR SEATING: Herman Miller Magis Lyra Stool, Ahrend Clipline chairs, Haworth Bong Side Table. LIGHTING: West Elm, Staggered; CP Lighting, New Growth 2. btw: DESTINATION DINING 28 | 29
…re-imagined Hotel Meeting Space The Project Proposed re-design of an existing space
Response to an invitation from Kia Weatherspoon, President, Determined By Design for her blog, What Would You Design?
Design Problems: The hotel meeting room is the bane of many traveling professionals… This space, typical of a large hotel conference center, is characterized by: bad lighting—inadequate lumens with a queasy color temperature mix, heavy ceiling, oppressive palette, advancing verticals, poor seating. CURRENT: Hotel meeting space.
INTERIORS
How to address design problems within existing dimensions?
PROPOSED: Re-designed hotel meeting space.
Design Solutions: Replace and program lighting. Add dimension, especially around the power point screen. Enliven the palette. Furnish with well-designed seating.
ABOVE: Re-designed Hotel Meeting Space. FFE. Seating: Herman Miller, Dressed First Chair, Maharam, Divina Melange 931. Carpet: Mannington Carpet Planks, With the Grain Loop, Etched. Accent Lighting: impact! n.r.2oob, alumnium.
RE-IMAGINED: HOTEL MEETING SPACE 30 | 31
MOTION Local Retail + Wine The Project An alternative re-use for a former bank.
Fightmaster Building circa 1898, Carlisle, Kentucky. BEFORE
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Project Description. The small retail space offering wine, coffee, and locally-produced goods is an adaptive reuse of the Fightmaster Building, originally built as a bank and now considered central to redevelopment in Carlisle, Kentucky. Perpetual Motion, the design concept, captures the merchandising idea of “spinning out” regional items and “drawing in” new customers. An existing tin ceiling is exposed and remaining architectural detail is retained.
Custom Shelving: Architecture + Mini-Vault + Motion
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MAKING
BRAZIL STUDY • DESIGN • BUILD
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STUDY • DESIGN • BUILD
This urban-rural studio included study in Sao Paulo and Minas Girais states. A design-build project re-designed a work space at Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza/FAF, a sustainable coffee center near Igaria, Mococo, Sao Paulo. Casa de Chicone, above, now serves as a work and social space for international visitors to FAF.
PREVIOUS SPREAD: Sao Paulo THIS PAGE: FAF Farm, rural Sao Paulo state
MAKING
STUDY Lectures and visits to urban and rural cultural sites in Sao Paulo state. FAF DESIGN • BUILD FAF is an organic coffee farm that supports agricultural cooperatives and hosts visitors interested in sustainability and fair trade. The studio designed and installed a new interior for Casa de Chicone, a former worker’s house, to serve as project work space for visitors. SIGNAGE • LIGHTING With Caitlyn Kwiatkowski
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CASA DE CHICONE, Interior Renovation, In-Progress
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LIGHTING Salvage yard materials
SIGNAGE Available farm wood
Project Photographs, Caitlyn Kwiatkowski and Robin Lambert
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hand FURNITURE
The Project Culminating project, cabinetmaking class. Southeast Community and Technical College. —before design school—
This bed was designed to demonstrate skill in all aspects of cabinet construction. Built from a truck load of rough-sawn black walnut.
SOLID WALNUT BED, LATHE WORK, HAND-RUBBED OIL FINISH.
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ELEVATION: Exploring Joinery
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flight SHADOW PLAY
The Project Interactions between a screen and its shadow. Horizontal and vertical pattern repeats. Laser-cut TyvekÂŽ. Three-dimensional translation.
The screen was drawn by hand, with pattern repeats refined. It was then re-created in AutoCad and cut on an 18" x 24" laser bed. Three-dimensional lighting installation is created with layers of linen and scrim.
SCREEN AND SHADOW
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3-D TRANSLATION
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ACTIVATING THE IN-BETWEEN A Conceptual Framework for Campus Planning
UK 2050: LEARN • WORK • LIVE Activating the In-Between: Interstice as Possibility is a spatial typology to guide building-level and campus-wide design and planning. It is the thesis project for a conceptual studio to re-design the campus of the University of Kentucky (UK) by mid-century in support of UK’s Learn, Work, and Live goals.
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INTRODUCTION: PROBLEM AND SOLUTION Activating the In-Between achieves campus-wide improvement through incremental re-design of spaces located within and between buildings. Its six types advance UK’s goals, refined as Learn: Creativity and Innovation; Work: Productivity and Excellence; Live: Community and Place. The typology, supported by research and interiors design theory, reflects spatial characteristics that shape human experiences and behaviors associated with living, learning, and working well. It can be applied across disciplines, user groups, and building types.
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TYPOLOGY. A rubric for campus design and planning centered on core human experiences integral to higher education, scholarship, service, and innovative work. CROSS-TIE DESIGN THINKING
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Human-centered design that serves the Commonwealth of Kentucky and fosters high-quality learning, working, and living within and across constituent groups.
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ABOUT UK: UNIVERSITY AND CAMPUS The University of Kentucky (UK) is a comprehensive land grant institution, serving some 24,000 students. Located near downtown Lexington, its rolling leafy campus is comprised of eclectic brick architecture punctuated with small green spaces and 70s-era towers. No unifying lawn or pathway links all parts of campus. Interiors are primarily lecture halls, traditional-style classrooms, offices, and small lobbies with fixed furnishings. Initial problem re-statement: How can UK accelerate achievement of goals in the short-term with limited economic resources?
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RESEARCH AND THEORY related to how humans learn, create, innovate, produce, and live well—individually and in community—are integrated into themes of body, mind, and relationship.
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ESSENTIAL IDEAS: BODY… MIND… RELATIONSHIP…
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Key Concepts: Positive relationship constituted in experience forms the bedrock human requirement to grow, learn, and live well. • The body is the means through which the mind processes its surroundings. • Logic and imagination expand through real-world interaction. • Creativity flourishes with exposure, experimentation, and freedom. • Innovation requires cross-fertilization and iteration. • Spaces encode social and cultural constructs and values.
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ANALYSIS: CONDITIONS & ADAPTATIONS Users relish campus beauty but make many behavioral and spatial adaptations to adverse conditions, which include physical features that constrain interaction across disciplines and user groups; poor lighting and furnishings; and inattention to mobility, gender, culture, and discipline-specific concerns that create uneven adaptive burdens. Follow-up problem re-statement: How can UK bring equity to existing spaces and support desired goal-driven behaviors?
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OBSERVATION informed by focus groups, research, and theory spotlights positive features, conditions that inhibit goals, and the need for more spaces of equality, interaction, celebration, and enjoyment.
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Privacy • Passivity • Collaboration • Inhospitality • Symbol • Inaccessible Undesignated Space Access to private space is limited and hierarchical; boys sleep all over, girls in this one restroom lounge • Lecture halls impose passivity • Furnishings and fixtures hamper collaboration • Most landing spots are adjacent to restrooms • Symbolic architecture: beloved, yet quasi-religious with a racially-demeaning historic mural. • Few spaces for creative or spontaneous group activity.
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CONCLUSIONS: NEEDS & OPPORTUNITIES CORE EXPERIENCES EXPOSURE Explore, expand, learn… INTERACTION Grow, deepen, innovate… CREATION Experiment, express, make… FREEDOM Human well-being.
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CREATIVE CLARITY for an alternative approach to campus design centered around core values, behaviors, and experiences and the spatial attributes that give rise to human possibilities.
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In order to meet its Learn • Work • Live goals, UK will need to expand varieties of venues in which users encounter and make varied intellectual, cultural, and creative content and expression; interact across disciplines and cultures to produce innovative work and build community; and gain access to spaces that support personal well-being and growth. Final problem re-statement: How can UK address multiple needs simultaneously to maximize Learn • Work • Live outcomes for all users in the short- and long-terms?
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INTERSTICE AS POSSIBILITY Six spatial types, expressed in lay language, promote and enhance essential aspects of productive, engaged, and meaningful campus life.
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PART II: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK TO MEET UNIVERSITY GOALS AND CHALLENGES
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Connection • Collaboration • Activity Shared, high-value Cross-Ties encourage formal and informal interaction among user groups and across academic disciplines. Where & Why: Parts of two or more active spaces, designated or not, Cross-Ties promote unlikely interactions, which stimulate conversation, exchange of information and ideas, unanticipated ways of thinking, and unusual collaborations. Examples: Studios, labs, co-work spaces, performance areas, lively lobbies. Learn • Work • Live: Cross-Ties increase exposure to new perspectives and experiences—the essence of learning, creativity and innovation. They help deepen awareness, foster relationships across difference, and enhance insight and experimentation.
This landing in the central stairway of UK’s Pharmacy Building is a hot spot of informal interaction. POSSIBILITY • Innovation • Community
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Respite • Conviviality • Observation Open and distinct, interior or outdoors, Stopovers carve out temporary personal space wherever the action is mostly likely to happen. Where & Why: Adjacent to or within active areas, Stopovers are small public landing spots for individuals or groups. Comfortable and flexible, they offer informal personal work sites and support quick collaborations and meet-ups, people-watching, and relaxation. Examples: Flexible seating, niches, open “shelters,” perches, benches, tables, porches and patios. Learn • Work • Live: For individual or group, work or social, Stopovers make space for a change of pace and scenery. They help clear the mind for fresh perspective, new insight, pleasant social interaction, and creative productivity.
A sitting room on the main hall of the Pharmacy Building is sunny and well-used. A wall display of antique pharmaceutical equipment is a place-specific emblem. RESPECT • Productivity • Place
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Create • Gather • Celebrate Inside or out-of-doors, Impromptus can become almost anything temporarily. Where & Why: Adjacent to active areas, Impromptus suggest possibility and invite creative expression, and celebration across user groups. Examples: Flexible lobbies, plazas, available warehouses, quads, play yards, shared work boards, interactive physical and digital models. Learn • Work • Live: Impromptus are places anyone and everyone can be. Adaptable, inviting, and public, they encourage casual interaction, arts and cultural activities, and experimentation. They support identification with place, social cohesiveness, sense of community across user groups, and shared ownership of public space and its activities. This parking lot is the largest dry-ground open space in central campus. Easily accessible, it could be adapted for impromptu activities. FREEDOM • Creativity • Community
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Comfort • Stillness • Possibility Small, private, and accessible, Go-Tos are temporary getaways for personal use. Safe, adaptable, and comfortable, they offer small temporary oases for individuals. Where & Why: Nested in active areas or situated near them, Go-Tos offer security and psychological remove for individual users. They demonstrate care and attention to personal needs and differences that help foster positive feelings toward the organization. Examples: Nursing stations; call booths; safe spaces for meditation, napping, personal re-grouping. Learn • Work • Live: Go-Tos offer essential private space on busy, noisy campuses where many users have nowhere to go to escape the demands, attentions, and distractions of other people. Go-Tos offer clean, quiet, humane space. Comfortably lit and semi-private, these carrels for one to four users in the library basement are especially popular late at night. INCLUSION • Productivity • Excellence
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Imagination • Pleasure • Surprise Hidden space gems, Happen-Upons offer rich, often unanticipated, sensory experiences that please, surprise, and re-center the body and mind in space and time. Where & Why: Off the beaten path or tucked away in plain sight, Happen-Upons help de-focus the mind for creative insight and, alternatively, wake up the mind from distracted or stuck thought patterns. Happen-Upons are small “fields-of-care” and highly valued by people who know about them. Examples: Hidden gardens, nooks and crannies, surprise vistas, secluded seating, quiet paths. Learn • Work • Live: Happen-Upons are the happy, leisurely getaway or the moment of delight in a hurried routine. They build attachment and care for place and help relax and refresh the mind for greater productivity.
This lovely flower garden behind the former President’s Mansion is open to the public daily. Its welcoming entry is on a lightly traveled sidewalk. DELIGHT • Place • Creativity
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Significance • Inclusion • Continuity Eye-catching, local, significant, one-of-a kind. Symbolic Emblems communicate character and locale. Highly recognizable, they represent and promote identification or alienation from place. Where & Why: Located on thoroughfares and in highly visible places, Emblems mark space. They can suggest continuity and contribute to a shared and lasting sense of place. Examples: Geographic features, singular architecture, distinctive art and design, monuments. Learn • Work • Live: Emblems are the markers of place that claim it as unique and important. When inclusive, beautiful and iconic, Emblems signal belongingness and communicate that this place and its constituents are valuable.
Significant objects can announce place and identity. Light fixtures, left, designed by UK’s Joe Rey-Barreau, will be re-installed in the new Student Center. MEANING • Place • Excellence a
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ACTIVATING THE IN-BETWEEN: INTERSTICE AS POSSIBILITY an interior design conceptual thesis project
For in the proximate, the daily, the apparently small, there is hidden… the metaphysical; the here-and-now is the place where meaning is disclosed, where our existence must find interpretation, if it can find interpretation at all. That is what dwelling, or the space of dwelling is: something proximate, daily, apparently small over against great things. —Paul Tillich, 1933a Selected Bibliography, Photos, Robin Lambert, unless cited a Abercrombie, Stanley. A Philosophy of Interior Design. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. aTillich quote (above): p 166. Agrest, Diana I. “Architecture from Without: Body, Logc, and Sex” in Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Ed., Rendell, Jane, Penner, Barbara, and Borden, Iain. London: Routledge, 2003, pp 29-41. Baugh, Bruch. “Body” in The Deleuze Dictionary, revised edition, Ed. Parr, Adrian. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp 89-90. Bennett, Scott. “Learning Behaviors and Learning Spaces, “ in Libraries and the Academy. Vol. 2, No. 3, (2011), pp 765-785. Block, Peter. Community: The Structure of Belonging. San Francisco: BerrettKoehler Publishers, Inc., 2009. Caicco, Gregory, ed. Architecture, Ethics and the Personhood of Place. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007.
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Carson, Shelley. Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life. Boston, MA: Harvard Health Publications, 2010. Cross, Nigel. Design Thinking. NY: Berg, 2011. Deakin, Mark, and Sam Allwinkle. “Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Communities: The Role of Networks, Innovation, and Creativity in Building Successful Partnerships,” Journal of Urban Technology 14 (June 2007), 77-91. Heidegger, Martin. “Building, Dwelling, Thinking,” in Phenomonology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy. Ed., Moran, Dermot, and Embree, Lester. London: Routledge, 2004, pp 100-109. Marleau-Ponty, Maurice. “The theory of the body is already a theory of perception,” in Phenomonology of Perception. London: Routledge, 2012, pp 203-217.
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Massey, Doreen. Space, Place and Gender. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Toker, Zeynep. “Recent trends in community design: the eminence of participation,” Design Studies 28 (2007), 309-323.
ron_quixote. (2015, May 21). Empty university. [Instagram post]. Retrieved from http://www.instagram.com/p/29eSITzBGh/?taken-by+ron_quixote. (Image: Luminaire, p 59).
Tuan, Yi-Fu. “Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective,” in Human Geography: An Essential Anthology, ed. Agnew, J, Livingston, D.N., & Rogers, Alisdair. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1996, pp 444-457.
Sam Farrar Williams. University of Kentucky. [Pinterest post]. Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/633387421608337. (Image: Memorial Hall, p 51).
University of Kentucky Images. Campus Map, pp iv, 51. Retrieved from https://maps.uky.edu/printablemaps/CampusMap_Basemap_BW_11x17. pdf. Funkhouser Bldg, p 48. Chellgren Center homepage. Retrieved from https://www.uky.edu/chellgren/sites/www.uky.edu.chellgren/files/funk.jpg.
Semetsky, Inna. “Experience.” The Deleuze Dictionary, revised edition. Ed. Parr, Adrian. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp 89-90. Taylor, Mark and Preston, Julieanna. Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008. Thompson, Catharine Ward and Penny Travlou, eds. Open Space: People Space. London: Taylor & Francis, 2007.
Urhahn Urban Design. The Spontaneous City. BIS Publishers, 2012. Weisman, Leslie Kanes. “The Spatial Caste System: Design for Social Inequality,” in Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment. Champagne-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994, pp 9-34.
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ENGAGEMENT • PROGRAM • ARTS & CULTURE • POLICY • FACILITIES & STAFF • SCALING UP IN COMMUNITY
PUBLIC SPACE [in the aftermath...]
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Former jail, now torn down.
Harlan County Coal Monument, memorializing miners killed on the job.
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Turner-Howard feud. Examined in Malcolm Gladwell’s, Outliers.
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Harlan is American shorthand for coal, for danger, for tragedy, for rural white poverty. An incomplete and negating shorthand. Yet the losses are real.
Harlan was my long-term home.
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Academy Award documentary Harlan County, U.S.A.
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Coal mining is 47% of all wage income in Harlan County 2003 Harlan is a ground-zero county in the opiod crisis. It is devastating. Most people are affected and believe the roots of the crisis lie in hopelessness and despair.
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Public space is collectively owned. When high quality and open, it can elevate civic life by attracting a variety of users and by encouraging interactions that build common ground.
Yet public space is often not equally available and welcoming to all. This project explores how a process of engagement might shape the creation of public spaces that are more vibrant, inclusive, and respectful of everyone.
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Owned | Shared by All Belonging and caring Safe and Accessible Free from harassment Attractive Draw in and engage all kinds of people Lively Amenable to varied activity Personalizable Temporary “ownership” Evolving Maintain identity and meet new needs Meaningful Satisfying emotionally; connected culturally and physically to place
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ROSPECT 2.0 Prospect is an original community engagement and design process (see page 1) intended to build community capacity and strengthen the design of public and community spaces. 2.0 is an exploration of the process in Harlan, Kentucky, a community rich in culture and also dealing with traumatic loss.
As a “persistently distressed county,” Harlan’s resilience and its many human and natural attributes are challenged by poverty, lack of opportunity, incarceration, and early mortality, resulting in widespread anxiety and suffering. Communities facing hard realities need shared spaces that support residents to enjoy and see strength and hope in their place, in themselves, and in each other. DESIGN THINKING IN COMMUNITY
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Prospect design focuses on downtown. The city retains beautiful architectural bones, a pleasing mix of crooked streets, urban verticality, and Deco details—in a lovely natural setting.
Harlanites agreed they wanted to see downtown cleaned up with more economic activity, places to go, and things for tourists and residents to do. They also agreed that home-grown solutions would be necessary. They disagreed on what and how. Residents desire an active welcoming downtown to support county and city.
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When experiences of loss, violence, displacement, or negation are unresolved in the lives of individuals and communities, trauma can become embedded. People often feel blamed, depressed, confused, in denial about what has happened, overwhelmed with despair, and unable to see a path to a better future.
Recognizing traumatic experience or loss is the first step to moving past the paralysis and isolation that often follow. For both individuals and communities, recovery is supported by experiences that acknowledge and redress the loss and connect people to their own bodies, the natural world, and each other. Spaces and activities that foster a sense of belonging and purpose, build pride, strengthen confidence, and tell new stories help people create a meaningful and hopeful future.
PROSPECT AIMS: Support Interpersonal Contact • Foster Belonging, Pride, and Confidence • Build Agency
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The Prospect process supports participants to approach and explore issues and experiences, including difficulties and controversies, by making and then talking about object responses to relevant prompts.
Responses addressed several topics often avoided in Harlan: strong value on family sometimes excludes other relationships; the nature of coal mining and of local decisionmaking are hot buttons; the county’s moniker, “Bloody Harlan,” conjures rifts, old and new.
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Things we want more of that are free? What have we learned about the spaces we want? MOVE FORWARD to Action
Begin by creating objects related to prompts; then respond to each others’ objects for new possibilities.
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What makes Harlan… Harlan?
FROM EXPERIENCE TO GOALS Goals for physical spaces are identified after participants have explored values and experiences they want.
ISCUSSION: CREATING A NEW STORY
Initially participants made mostly innocuous objects and tentative responses to them, gradually and obliquely venturing into more personal and risky expressions. As they discovered common ground, participants found energy and new ways to frame and respond to hard realities.
The first tough topic emerged in response to a drawing of a family. Someone asked, “Is family enough?” Broaching the topic uncovered desire for broader social interaction. “Break Out!” cracked a sense of futility that things will not change. But as participants tapped their own and each others’ creativity, hope was energized and ideas poured forth. “Bloody Harlan” offered a new and inspiring response to long-standing conflict over Harlan’s infamous moniker.
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Democratic space is safe and welcoming to everyone. It does not privilege one group over another and actively draws in those who have been marginalized. It supports individuals and fosters interactions that build respect and trust essential to democratically-oriented communities.
Throughout the process, objects and conversations revealed pent-up desire for inclusive community, for relief from economic and social pressures, and for the promises of democratic ideals. At the last prompt, Prospect participants named goals for Harlan and its spaces. Topping the list: Places that encourage conversation so we can get to know each other better.
IS FAMILY ENOUGH?
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Value of family affirmed, concerns for youth expressed, broader social interaction desired.
Economic exploitation, abandonment, and frustration openly presented.
The divisive moniker, “Bloody Harlan,” recast as vitality of blood – plus brain.
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Interest in outdoor activity in town was a surprise outcome of the Prospect process. This vacant lot adjacent to the Courthouse was for sale at the time.
Design Direction is drawn from the “Bloody Harlan” reframe: Blood—Needed, rich, life, connects all, mystery, true, old, bankable.
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Initially, participants were tentative and cautious. But as they made interesting objects and even more interesting responses, they also made space for each other to share fears and hopes and bold ideas. By the end, participants wanted to help lead a county-wide Prospect process. Flat. A real asset where flat land is rare, lawns small, and many residents challenges. What have makesmobility Harlan…
1 HARLAN PROMPTS Harlan? Southern Exposure. Valuable where tight mountains block natural light from most homes.
Prospective View. The longest sight line and only vista in downtown Harlan. Central. Equitable access to all parts of town, convenient parking, easily reached from US 421. —Duct Tape Heart—
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Breaking Orthodoxy Participants asserted strength and care and then inched toward conversations that challenged expected norms.
INSIGHTS AND SURPRISES: PROSPECT HARLAN PROCESS Making Responding Wisdom
Making helped activate creative thinking, expressed pre-conscious thought and surprising ideas, depersonalized ideas, and inspired proactive creative response to dilemmas and controversial topics. Responding to other peoples’ objects expanded and improved ideas, reduced idea attachment, built shared ownership, revealed common ground and values, and opened avenues into hard topics. Prompt 2 intended to identify “sacred” spaces and values along with aspects of life participants were willing to change. But one Prospect group heard it as “what’s wrong here?” Their strong “good with bad” insistence voiced the necessity of acknowledging loss, difficulty, and the magnitude of challenges.
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“Works on your own weight.”
Controversy A participant’s creative flip of Harlan’s moniker offered an inspiring and unifying path through SPONTANEOUS controversy. CREATIVITY —Food Kiosk— “Places to eat out and buy or bring your own meal… offer opportunities for small food entrepreneurs.”
Affirmation of agency gave way to a story of why things would not change in Harlan… until a participant applied creativity to the story itself.
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What do we want more of that’s free?
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Moving forward from severe or sustained loss, negation, or trauma requires affirmation of strength as well as acknowledgement of realities and their aftermath. Positive momentum is propelled by finding agency, seeing possibility, and using creative insight to re-frame experience toward better futures.
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What have we learned about the spaces we really want? Promote Conversation and Interaction Support a Variety of Activities Signal New Directions and Pride in Harlan Help Each Other Make Money Outdoor Activities in Town
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Prospect Harlan process revealed desire for outdoor activity in town. This site was on the market. It sits on a small bluff above the natural creek bed of the Clover Fork and enjoys three natural assets that are rare and valued in close mountains: a flat expanse, a south face, and a long vista. Flat. A real asset where flat land is rare, lawns small, and many residents have mobility challenges. Southern Exposure. Valuable where tight mountains block natural light from most homes. Prospective View. The longest sight line and only vista in downtown Harlan. Central. Equitable access to all parts of town, convenient parking, easily reached from US 421.
SITE: SOUTH, toward Bailey Hill
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PHYSICAL FACTORS: HISTORIC CHANGES DOWNTOWN 421 Bypass Floodwall Clover Fork Diversion
The US 421 BYPASS routed commercial traffic away from downtown, which drained economic and social activity out of Harlanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary public spaces. Floodwall construction along Martins Fork displaced the African-American community at Georgetown, mostly to Bailey Hill and Mt Olive. The diversion of Clover Fork under Ivy Hill reduced flooding in the core of downtown, but not in Mt Olive. Its natural creek bed now serves as the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ball fields.
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Nearly equi-distant to all Harlan neighborhoods, the site is easily reached by foot and car and is located near stores, schools, the public library, Boys and Girls Club, and most public buildings. It is also adjacent to and overlooks some of the city’s most historic sites. Walkability. Walkable from all parts of downtown. Amenable to people with mobility challenges. Sight Lines. Strong visual connections between neighborhoods and toward a beautiful vista. Sunshine and Nature. Open southern exposure for soaking up sun in a nature-oriented, in-town setting.
SOCIAL FACTORS: COMFORT, STIMULATION, AND PEACE Housing Interaction Courthouse
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Public space matters, especially to residents whose homes have little access to natural light or the outdoors and to those whose homes have deteriorated as economic conditions have worsened. Many Harlanites express desire for more “places to go,” especially ones that do not require spending. Harlan has few physical spaces in which everyone feels comfortable and sociable. Courthouse proximity stresses many residents with negative associations related to loss of land and mineral rights, legal and voting intimidatation, and a history of having been in jail or court.
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Inspired by the creative flip of “Bloody Harlan,” the park connects its destinations with paths that recall circulating blood and the county’s three creeks. Shelters echoing Pine and Black Mountains and an open lawn invite interaction and a variety of social, cultural, and civic activities—enriching and affirming life. Bloody Harlan: Blood — Needed, Rich, Life, Connects All…
Needed: Axial on Purpose. Spacious lawn for group activities. Straight paths for wheelchairs. Welcome signals for everyone.
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Wide patio with moveable chairs and tables Multiple shelters throughout the park Undulating Arbor Cafe references Black Mountain Linear Stage/Focal Wall reference Pine Mountain Paths recall Harlan’s creeks and waterways Mining references: equipment, kettlebottoms
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A variety of settings and gardens make space for residents to be alone or with others in nature, which has been proven to aid in trauma recovery. History is signaled in a focal wall symbolizing nature and industry, by kettlebottomsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;dangerous mineral deposits found in coal seams, and by upcycled mining equipment. Bloody Harlan: Blood â&#x20AC;ŚLife, Connects All, Mystery,True, Old, Bankable
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Bluff over natural bed of Clover Fork.
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Showcasing assets that have been present all along. Harlan is a beautiful spot on earth. Participants in Prospect showcased beauty in its spirit as well. Their largeness of heart and mind, imagination, and willingness to throw in together demonstrated what community can be, what this place wants to be. The psychological value of a long perspective. Freedom and imagination in the here and the there. The beauty of our place; its connection to yours. The long arc of history, the wide arc of earth. The right spot: what a place wants to be.
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DESIGN THINKING IN COMMUNITY
NEW FRAMEWORKS FOR NEW POSSIBILITIES DESIGN THINKING IN COMMUNITY Career work that applies design thinking to the challenges and possibilities of real communities. Imagination • Skilled observation and listening • Insight • Recognition and creative use of untapped resources • Respect • Productive collaboration across barriers • Engagement of varied groups in public settings to produce new ideas and action • Far-reaching impact— Hale County, Alabama
Rural School and Community Trust, National Non-Profit, Policy Information Manager State and Federal Policy Analysis, National Audience • Community Capacity Building • Original Research • Writing and Editing • Congressional Testimony Pine Mountain Settlement School, National Historic Landmark, Executive Director 800 Acres • 18 Buildings • 22 Staff • 3,000 Visitors • New Architectural | Preservation Programs • 2,364 Acres Protected • Nation’s First Viewshed for Mining
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Program for Rural Services and Research, University of Alabama, Assistant Director Community Development in 80+ Communities • $5M+ in Grants • 40+ Arts, Design, Building Projects • Federal and State Expert Witness • Policy Impact DIVIDER SPREAD PHOTOS: Pine Mountain Settlement School (PMSS), Kentucky; Coffeeville Community Music Celebration Planning, Alabama; PMSS; New Site Playground Construction; Lockhart Community Greenhouse; Community Planning Meeting, Calcedeaver, Alabama.
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NEW FRAMEWORKS POLICY & PRACTICE New information, analysis, and responses to a vexing national problem. Original research, narrative, and graphic presentation.
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This infographic is part of a Rural Policy Matters special report on violence in schools. The report presents patterns across incidents in which someone died or there was a mass threat in a pre-K-12 school setting. In the absence of comprehensive national data for the time frame, the report relies on media accounts and is, therefore, not a complete listing. Information on single-death incidents is particularly incomplete prior to 1992 and in recent years pending release of official counts. This infographic represents incidents included in the report from 1974 through 2012.
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NEW FRAMEWORKS FACILITIES & PROGRAMS DESIGN THINKING | CREATIVE TENSIONS Beautiful, beloved, fragile, historic, multi-building facility— and a huge constituency with divergent values and goals.
PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL National Historic Monument, Harlan County, Kentucky 18 Buildings • 800 Acres • 22 Staff • 3,000 Annual Visitors Established in 1913 in the settlement tradition, PMSS now offers environmental, arts, and community programs. N DESIGN THINKING IN COMMUNITY
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The PMSS campus was designed by Mary Rockwell Hook, one of America’s first women architects.
Leadership: Led PMSS through major external crisis • Led statewide campaign and with legal team won new protections for 2,364 acres • Nation’s first viewshed protections for mining • Worked with architect on design of new pavilion (unbuilt) Management: $1M budget, 22 staff, 3,000 annual visitors • Hire | Oversee facility contractors • Crisis aversion | control Preservation: Partnered with Kentucky Heritage Council to secure grant for historic preservation schools hosted at PMSS Major New Programs: Symposium on Settlements in the Southern Mountains • Arts events • Children’s Baseball League NEW FRAMEWORKS 88 | 89
NEW FRAMEWORKS COMMUNITY LIFE & WORK DESIGN THINKING | IMAGINATION & INSIGHT Creative resource use and collaboration across communities to address needs and improve quality of life and opportunity.
SCALING UP
See possibility where it has not been recognized. Build reciprocal collaborative structures that support the design of new, ingenious, apt responses to long-standing challenges. Scale up reach, resources, and impact.
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A Statewide Initiative. From Scratch
This groundbreaking work drew power from its reliance on local imagination and its collaboration across barriers, which fueled meaningful new quality-of-life projects and attracted over $5 million in grants, national attention, and policy results.
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~$50K Rural Alabama communities face many current challenges and historical legacies that diminish well-being for individuals and communities. They also have valuable strengths and resources.
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Program for Rural Services and Research University of Alabama
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Music and Arts Events, Newspapers, Literary Journals 24 Site Community Innovation Collaborative
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DEEPEN, REFINE, EXTEND
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Connect to Larger Issues and Policies
Build New Supports
Playgrounds, Gardens, Parks, Passive Solar Houses 26 Health and Entrepreneurship Sites >$5M in New Grants $50M Leveraged Toward New National Non-Profit
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