Placemaking Week 2024

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Placemaking Week 2024

5:00pm EDT

Early Arrival Registration & Socializing (5pm - 7pm) Mt Vernon Marketplace

5:30pm EDT

TOUR: Bromo Arts District Walking Tour (Register Link in Description)

8:00am EDT

Registration and Information Desk (8am - 5pm) Maryland Institute College of Art - Brown Center & Fox Building

9:00am EDT

PLENARY: Welcome to Baltimore! MICA - Brown Center, Falvey Hall

10:45am EDT

Break MICA - Brown Center

11:15am EDT

WORKSHOP: The Social Gravity of Joy MICA - Fox Building, Room 310 (3rd Floor)Hailey Jordan PANEL: Case studies from Alumni of MICA’s MFA in Community Arts and Community Art Collaborative Programs MICA - Fox Building, Room 420 (4th Floor)Hannah Brancato • Christopher Johnson • Genifer Fraser • Sara Kaltwasser • Susan Tuberville • Unique Robinson PANEL: Crafting the Commons: Recent Placemaking Initiatives with MICA Social Design MICA - Fox Building, Room 220 (2nd Floor)Tracy Rone • Lisa Bleich • Dejia Danhi • Ana Mengote Baluca PANEL: Soup to Nuts: Artists and City Officials Teaming up to Activate a Public Space MICA - Fox Building, Room 210 (2nd Floor)Jim Walker • Rusty Carr • Shauta Marsh • Courtney Rissman • Danica Liongson PANEL: The State of/and Traffic Calming Art in Baltimore & the U.S. MICA - Brown Center, Lecture Hall (3rd Floor)Mike Lydon • Graham Coreil-Allen • Graham Young • Quinton Batts • Shayna Rose PANEL: What Could a Non-Sexist Baltimore Look Like? MICA - Fox Building, Room 320 (3rd Floor)Ashley Molese • Lizzie MacWillie SHORT TALKS: Living with the Land: Resilience, Green Space & Fresh Food MICA - Brown Center, Falvey HallAkshita Siddula • Carla Brisotto • Marina Queirolo • Kelly Henderson • Zoe Callahan

12:30pm EDT

Lunch @ MICA (Included) MICA - Brown Center

2:00pm EDT

WORKSHOP: Empowering Placemaking through Restorative Justice: A Community-Driven Framework for Equitable Placekeeping & Municipal Master Planning MICA - Fox Building, Room 210 (2nd Floor)Aron Lesser • Melissa Lee WORKSHOP: From Vacant to Vibrant: How to Create a Pop-Up Community Space MICA - Fox Building, Room 220 (2nd Floor)Rishika Dhawan • Aaron Greiner PANEL: Choreographing Better Cities: Dance as a Critical Placemaking Tool MICA - Fox Building, Room 310 (3rd Floor)CJay Philip • Carly Bales • Bella Stenvall • Edwin Wee • Harrison Guy PANEL: Fostering Community Identity and Driving Inclusive Economic Growth: Nurturing a Distinct Sense of Place Amidst Evolving Infrastructure MICA - Brown Center, Lecture Hall (3rd Floor)Andrea Devening • Bryan Franklin • Hanna Love PANEL: New Monuments as Public Art: Exercises in History, Trust and Accountability MICA - Fox Building, Room 320 (3rd Floor)Christopher Kojzar • Teresa Durkin • Zoe Megins-Davies PANEL: Planning, Implementing, Maintaining: A Business Improvement District Perspective MICA - Fox Building, Room 420 (4th Floor)Benjamin Bryant • Alex Balloon • Emily Hopkins • Nathaniel Echeverria • Maria Gabriela Gonzalez Rausell SHORT TALKS: Creating People-First Streets, Transit & Infrastructure MICA - Brown Center, Falvey HallDerek Moore • Jacque Gonzalez-Garcia • Maura Dwyer • Oscar Suastegui Quintero • Sabina Sethi Unni • Sam Carter-Shamai • Yuxiang Luo • Jackson Chabot

3:15pm EDT

Break Maryland Institute College of Art - Brown Center & Fox Building

3:45pm EDT

WORKSHOP: Empowering Communities: Resident-Driven Creative Placemaking Workshop for Program Design, Management, Partnerships & Funding MICA - Fox Building, Room 210 (2nd Floor)Kady Yellow PANEL: Building Toronto Together: Co-Creating Equitable Social Infrastructure in the Inner Suburbs MICA - Fox Building, Room 320 (3rd Floor)Wes Reibeling • Cara Chellew • Ima Esin • Jaclyn Rodrigues • Naziha Nasrin • Stephanie Mah PANEL: Connecting Communities: The Role of Local Design Centers as Catalysts for Equitable Development MICA - Fox Building, Room 220 (2nd Floor)Keith Baker • Jennifer Goold • Gary Gaston • Madeleine Spencer • Tya Winn PANEL: Designing Change: Lessons from University-Community Partnerships in Avenue Market Revitalization MICA - Brown Center, Lecture Hall (3rd Floor)Karim Amin • Pickett Slater Harrington • Kadija Hart • Alice Weston PANEL: People and Their Place: Lessons From High and Low-Resource Placemaking Efforts in New York City MICA - Fox Building, Room 420 (4th Floor)Tali Cantor • Jackson Chabot • Mike Lydon PANEL: Placemaking with Federal Agencies MICA - Fox Building, Room 310 (3rd Floor)Katherine Irani • Jocelyn Jones • Ben Stone • Bridget Marquis SHORT TALKS: Grantmaking for Placemaking: Supporting Community Projects MICA - Brown Center, Falvey HallNate Storring • Bridget Anderson • Aaron Kaufman • Aisha Glover • Amy Cohen • Martha Snow • Sarah Lewitus • Shaylee Zaugg

5:30pm EDT

SOCIAL EVENT: Bromo Block Party! 400 Block of N. Howard Street

8:00am EDT

Head off to Mobile Workshops

9:00am EDT

MOBILE WORKSHOP 01: Community Paint at the Inner Harbor: A Mural to Remember Baltimore’s Enslaved Workers TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 02: Art in Between: A “Street Museum” Connecting Baltimore's Cultural Institutions TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 03: Growing Healthier Communities: How Urban Farming Builds Land Justice in Baltimore TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 04: Let's Do It! Transforming Crosswalks and Blank Walls in East Baltimore Midway TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 05 Make Space: Using Cooperative Economics to Build Artist Communities TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 06: Vacant to Vibrant: Community-led Revitalization in Johnston Square TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 07: Power Tools to the People: Community Empowerment through Tool Access at the SNTL TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 08: Activating New Neighborhoods: Placemaking at the Baltimore Peninsula TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 09: A New Lexington Market TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 10: Researching the AFRO American Newspaper Archives TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 11: Countering Systemic Disinvestment: A Park and Green Space Development Model in Southwest Baltimore TBA MOBILE WORKSHOP 12: Creative Placemaking in Highlandtown: Nurturing Healthy, Vibrant and Diverse Communities TBA

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Break (on your own)

1:30pm EDT

Registration and Information Desk (1:30pm - 6pm) Mobtown Ballroom and Café

2:30pm EDT

WORKSHOP: ChalkTalk: a Participatory Methodology for Designing Resilient Public Spaces Impact Hub BaltimoreJacob DeGeal WORKSHOP: Creating Intergenerational Public Spaces for Solace The Club CarKisha Webster PANEL: 83 to Hilton Restorative Justice with Food and You Parkway Theatre, Theatre 2Arica Gonzalez • Ashiah Parker • Amanda Stephenson • Randi Williams • Christy Turner PANEL: Building Inclusive Outdoor Communities: Lessons from Pigtown Climbs and Beyond The GarageSih Oka-Zeh • Bri'Anna Horne PANEL: Built to Play: Scaling Play Infrastructure at the Regional Scale Parkway Theatre, Theatre 3Kari Pardoe • Alex Allen • Carrie Leovy • Trevor Staples • Eamon O'Connor PANEL: Inner Harbor 2.0—Inventing Waterfront Placemaking in a Post Industrial Society Fred Lazarus IV Center, Auditorium (MICA)Adam Genn • Laurie Schwartz, WEDG • Amelle Schultz • Jacqueline Bershad • Michael Humes

3:45pm EDT

Break

4:15pm EDT

WORKSHOP: Collective Action: Agenda-Setting for the PlacemakingUS Network The Club CarRyan Smolar • Madeleine Spencer WORKSHOP: Urban Cipher: A Race and Space Board Game Impact Hub BaltimoreHeidi Thomas PANEL: Crafting Contextually Appropriate Open Spaces: Embracing Community Identity through Placemaking Fred Lazarus IV Center, Auditorium (MICA)Kris Hoellen • John Pezzulla • Scott Vieth • Kenneth Young • Brian Reetz PANEL: The Guardians of Baltimore: Stories of change from 25 Black women leaders Parkway Theatre, Theatre 3Markia Beckwith • Gwen Brown • Terrye Moore • Pauline Charles • Whitney Frazier PANEL: The Power of Trails for Creating Connection and Celebrating Culture Parkway Theatre, Theatre 2Arica Gonzalez • Christopher Schulze • Misty Fae • Quinton Batts • Kate Foster SHORT TALKS: Filling Vacancies: Reusing Storefronts, Alleys, and Empty Lots The GarageTina Govan • Lisbeth Iversen • Ilana Preuss • Alan Chan • Alexis Rourk-Reyes • Heidi Youngha Cho • Simon Bertrang

5:30pm EDT

Unofficial Happy Hour

6:00pm EDT

TOUR Greenway Trails Bike Tour (Register Link in Description) TOUR: Ghost Rivers Tour (Register Link in Description) TOUR: Station North Mural Arts Tour (Register Link in Description)

6:30pm EDT

Evening On Your Own

8:00pm EDT

TOUR: Evening Light Tour of Signal Station North (Register Link in Description)

9:00am EDT

TOUR: National Aquarium Harbor Wetlands Tour (Register Link in Description)

10:00am EDT

Registration and Information Desk (10am - 5pm) MICA - Brown Center

10:30am EDT

PLENARY: The State of Placemaking MICA - Brown Center, Falvey HallElena Madison • Nate Storring • Mallory Baches • Tracy Hadden Loh • Laurie Schwartz, WEDG • Madeleine Spencer • Anna McCorvey • Ramon Marrades Sempere • Chika Mezie

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Break (on your own)

2:00pm EDT

WORKSHOP: Exploring Baltimore's Identity Through Architectural Sketching MICA - Fox Building, Room 210 (2nd Floor)Eric J. Jenkins, AIA • Robert R. Lowe III • Jeffery Roberson WORKSHOP: How San Francisco is using placemaking to engage people in the next wave of waterfront revitalization: sea level rise MICA - Fox Building, Room 310 (3rd Floor)JULIE FLYNN • Amy Cohen WORKSHOP: LGBTQ Placemaker Storytelling Toolkit MICA - Fox Building, Room 320 (3rd Floor)Robin Abad Ocubillo • Wes Reibeling PANEL: Building Safer and Healthier Communities: The Transformative Influence of Placemaking MICA - Fox Building, Room 420 (4th Floor)Dan Baisden • Megan Grable • Réna Bradley • John MacDonald PANEL: Retrofitting Suburbia through Placemaking: Equitable economic development along the Blue Line Corridor MICA - Fox Building, Room 220 (2nd Floor)Andy Clarke • Adam Dodgshon • Jared Press • Angie Rodgers • MacKenzie Twardus SHORT TALKS: Placekeeping: Honoring Community Cultures and Stories MICA - Brown Center, Falvey HallChristina Delgado • Todd Bressi • Nancy Goldring • Anita Morson-Matra • Dejia Danhi • Fiorella Pinillos • Shawn Dunwoody

3:15pm EDT

Break

3:45pm EDT

WORKSHOP: How the Tennessee Department of Health is Promoting Health Equity through Built Environment Design MICA - Fox Building, Room 210 (2nd Floor)Shannon Velasquez • Kelly Ware WORKSHOP: Humanity and Connection to Place and History through Art Fox Building, 4th Floor, Room 420SHARON Attipoe Dorcoo PANEL: Culturally Responsive Placemaking for Social, Economic, & Environmental Justice MICA - Fox Building, Room 320 (3rd Floor)Ariam Ford • Andrew Martineau • Garry Gilliam • Jennie Kovalcik • Matthew Richter PANEL: For Us By Us: Place Keeping in Black Communities MICA - Brown Center, Lecture Hall (3rd Floor)Desiree' Powell • Jason Hyman • Khalia Young PANEL: Framing the Future of the Roundhouse: Trauma and Public Engagement in Placemaking MICA - Fox Building, Room 310 (3rd Floor)Ian Litwin • Alex Peay • Marisa Denker • Sylvia García-García PANEL: Placemaking & Social Inclusion MICA - Fox Building, Room 220 (2nd Floor)Elena Madison SHORT TALKS: On the Waterfront: Making Rivers & Harbors into Community Destinations MICA - Brown Center, Falvey HallAaron Cuison • Taylor Mathiesen • Andrew Gustafson • Bryce Turner • Catherine Ferrer • Diane Ruggiero • Kelsea McCrary

5:00pm EDT

Meet for Neighborhood Walks MICA - Cohen Plaza (quad in front of Brown Center)

5:30pm EDT

The City is Yours! NDC's Placemaking Week Closing Party Area 405

9:00am EDT

SOCIAL EVENT: Floatilla Watch Party: Seeing the Harbor through Googly Eyes Harborplace - Light Street Pavillion

9:30am EDT

TOUR: Fells Point Black History Tour (Register Link in Description) Harborplace - Light Street Pavillion

10:00am EDT

LOCAL PUBLIC ACTIVITY: Baltimore Floatilla LOCAL PUBLIC ACTIVITY: Charles Street Promenade Pedestrian Takeover Charles Street Promenade