Name: SHORT TALKS: Filling Vacancies: Reusing Storefronts, Alleys, and Empty Lots
Start: 2024-06-06T16:15:00-0400
End: 2024-06-06T17:30:00-0400

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SHORT TALKS: Filling Vacancies: Reusing Storefronts, Alleys, and Empty Lots

Location:
The Garage
6 E Lafayette Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202

This Short Talk session will feature presentations that that focus on activating, programming or developing places that were previously vacant, underused or underutilized.

Short Talks are moderated lighting round sessions with multiple short presentations, featuring presenters who will be speaking on a related topic. They are a great way to hear a range of cases, geographies, perspectives and sub-topics within one space!

Presentation titles and speakers:

Heidi Yougha Cho - "Breaking Boundaries: Placemaking Initiatives with Stationary and Mobile Cultural Platforms for Inclusive Urban Spaces in Seoul"

Simon Bertrang - "Vacant to Vibrant: An Public/Private Partnership to Reenergize Downtown San Francisco"

Tina Govan - "Neighborhood Placemaking Sheds: Strengthening the social and cultural life of neighborhoods from the bottom up, street by street"

Lisbeth Iversen - "From Empty Places to Sparkling Spaces through Co-creation, Placemaking and Place Leadership in Arendal City Center, Norway"

Alan Chan - "The Chinatown Night Market: Empowering Grassroot Visions through Community-led Design"

Alexis Rourk Reyes - "From Unused Place to a Vibrant Public Space: Community-Based Revitalization of the Cascade Park Gasification Plant Superfund Site"

Ilana Preuss - "5 Steps for Increased Economic Mobility Through Shared Spaces, Storefronts, and Local Businesses"

Moderators

Ilana Preuss

Founder & CEO, Recast City LLC

Ilana Preuss is the Founder of Recast City LLC, a consulting firm that works with local leaders, real estate developers, city and other civic leaders to integrate space for small-scale producers into redevelopment projects and place-based economic development. She is passionate about... Read More →

Speakers

Tina Govan

Principal, Placemaking Studio

Tina holds a Master of Architecture from MIT and is principal of her own firm in Raleigh, NC. A hybrid architect/placemaker, she’s designed schools, public baths, community centers, parks, pop-up markets, parklets and street activations, from Japan to West Africa to her native... Read More →

Lisbeth Iversen

Leader/Public Sector PhD Candidate, Arendal Municipality/AHO

Lisbeth Iversen is the leader of the network With a Heart For Arendal. She is finalizing her Public Sector Phd at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, NORWAY. Her topics are Participatory Planning, Co-creation, Place-making, Place-leadership... Read More →

Alan Chan

Designer, di Domenico + Partners

Alan Chan is an Urban Designer at dD+P. With degrees in both Architecture and Urban Planning, his portfolio encompasses civic projects that range from urban-scale designs to impactful community projects across New York City. He is deeply passionate about community-centered solutions... Read More →

Alexis Rourk-Reyes

U.S. EPA, Superfund Redevelopment Program Manager, U.S. EPA

Alexis Rourk Reyes serves as Superfund Redevelopment Program Manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA's Superfund Redevelopment Program helps communities reuse formerly contaminated land through tools, partnerships and activities, aiming to provide long-impacted communities... Read More →

Heidi Youngha Cho

founder/director, Domansa Urbiculture Lab

Heidi Cho, an architect and urban planner, is passionate about community-based placemaking. She holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and pursued urban planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Following her studies, Heidi served... Read More →

Simon Bertrang

Executive Director, SF New Deal

Thursday June 6, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EDT
The Garage

Short Talks

Placemaking Week 2024