Simon Bussiere & Joe Blalock
Ball State University | College of Architecture and Planning Department of Landscape Architecture 2000 University Avenue Muncie, IN 47306 Pop Up Studio | Simon Bussiere & Joe Blalock 2014 LA 605 Comprehensive Landscape Planning
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Pop Up Studio Acknowledgements Introduction Studio Composition Themes Design Week Schedule Operations | Formal Experiments PARK(ing) Day Vision Kit of Parts Event Promotion Social Media Performance Research PARK(ing) Day: Projects Urban Barn PARK(ing) Parterre Homeless Penguin Meditation Room Sound Garden Comfort Zones Kirk Mountain Art > Tires Tactical Urbanism | The Next Chapter: Projects Fairy Tale Wall Pop Up Bike Lane Cardinal Crossing A Festival Along the Tracks #RIPashtree Pop Up Classroom Living in the Alley Community Seed Kiosk
Thank you to Mayor Dennis Tyler, Duke Campbell, Director at the City’s Dept of Public Works, and Cheryl Crowder, DWNTWN Event Director for their support and expertise with local matters. We think of our downtown as a core of this community, and we’re encouraged by the fact that students and faculty at Ball State can rely on such strong community partners. Thank you also to the local businesses that worked with us to realize our PARK(ing) Day installations, Wishbone Gifts, Inc (Rod Crossland), The Caffienery (Frank and Lauren Reber), Normandy Flower Shop (Judy Benken), The Arsenal (Brian J. McKay), Kirk’s Bike Shop, Dandelions Flowers & Gifts (Lisa Pritchett), Forever Toys Models & Hobbies, and The Artist Within (Bob Hartley & Torren Scott). You make it possible for us to challenge the status quo and foster immersive learning together – for us, for our students, and for the betterment of our community as a whole. Thank you to all the students and faculty who were involved in this work, both in preparation for and during Design Week, and in the lead up to PARK(ing) Day, thank you all for your creative energy and for your inspired design madness that leads us on in our efforts to change the world. Thank you to the Living Lightly Fair representatives for their interest in challenging the role that personal transportation plays in the public realm. Thank you especially to Jim Jones, Sherif Attallah and their brilliant Construction Management students for helping us test, push and ultimately prove that our ideas can work. We’re always eager to collaborate with you and looking forward to shaping the built environment together. Thank you as always to the astonishing Marilyn Davis, our Department Administrative Coordinator, and to Helen Turner, our unshakable College Design Resources Manager for their steadfast dedication to fostering a creative working space for us at the College of Architecture and Planning. Thanks to Scott Stulen at the IMA, Jim Walker at BigCar, and Jonathon Geels for providing us with a creative shot in the arm throughout this event. Thank you to Provost Terry King, Dean Guillermo Vasquez De Velasco, Associate Dean Michel Mounayar, and Landscape Architecture Chairperson Jody Rosenblatt-Naderi for their instrumental leadership and support in making these critical keynote speaking events possible. Lastly, a big thanks to the amazing work by Lisa Renze-Rhodes, our Senior Media Relations Manager at BSU who was instrumental in spreading the word on this event, and to Seth Slabaugh for his reporting.
INTRODUCTION Cities around the world are competing with each other. Growth demands are enormous - not only in the development of new places to live and work, but also in the creation of new places for social and environmental engagement. Amidst that growing density and pressure, cities more than ever before require humane, attractive spaces for people to gather together. Mayors and city agencies are reinvesting in the public realm – perhaps the least expensive way to improve our cities. They are dialing back on investments to vehicular infrastructure in favor of ways that better serve the pedestrian environment – the walking, playing and gathering spaces of social exchange and interaction. Community groups and individual citizens have cried for this paradigm shift for decades, but now, as fossil fuel is once again in cheap supply, and the personal automobile remains as ubiquitous as the American flag, the precious spaces in the cities are again a battleground of social and cultural identity. Parking spaces, the bloated deserts of asphalt, and other residual spaces in our cities are prime targets for change. Simon Bussiere & Joe Blalock 2014 LA 605 Comprehensive Landscape Planning Studio Ball State University | College of Architecture and Planning Department of Landscape Architecture