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Placemaking Week 2024

Cara Chellew

McGill University
PhD Student

https://mcgill.ca/urbanplanning/

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Cara is a public space researcher and activist. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Urban Planning, Policy & Design at McGill University and is the founder of DefensiveTO, a multimedia project that documents defensive or hostile urbanism in Toronto and beyond. She is an organizer with the Toronto Public Space Committee and a member of Placemaking Canada. Her work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Azure, and Spacing Magazine.

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

12:30pm EDT

Lunch @ MICA (Included) MICA - Brown Center

2:00pm EDT

WORKSHOP: From Vacant to Vibrant: How to Create a Pop-Up Community Space MICA - Fox Building, Room 220 (2nd Floor)Rishika Dhawan • Aaron Greiner

3:15pm EDT

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

3:45pm EDT

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

5:30pm EDT

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

9:00am EDT

MOBILE WORKSHOP 08: Activating New Neighborhoods: Placemaking at the Baltimore Peninsula TBA

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Break (on your own)

2:30pm EDT

WORKSHOP: Creating Intergenerational Public Spaces for Solace The Club CarKisha Webster

3:45pm EDT

Break

4:15pm EDT

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

5:30pm EDT

Unofficial Happy Hour

7:00pm EDT

LOCAL PUBLIC ACTIVITY: Art After Dark!

10:30am EDT

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

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Break (on your own)

2:00pm EDT

WORKSHOP: LGBTQ Placemaker Storytelling Toolkit MICA - Fox Building, Room 320 (3rd Floor)Robin Abad Ocubillo • Wes Reibeling

3:15pm EDT

Break

3:45pm EDT

Placemaking & Social Inclusion: Addressing Homelessness and Mental Health Needs in Public Space MICA - Fox Building, Room 220 (2nd Floor)Elliott Madison • Elena Madison

5:00pm EDT

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

5:30pm EDT

Neighborhood Walks to the Closing Party: Station North and Greenmount West Neighborhoods SOCIAL EVENT: The City is Yours! Placemaking Week Closing Party Area 405

10:00am EDT

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