Placemaking Week 2024 has ended

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Placemaking Week 2024

Kelsea McCrary

City of Monroe, Louisiana
Chief Cultural and Economic Development Officer
Monroe, LA, United States

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2:00pm EDT

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: New Monuments as Public Art: Exercises in History, Trust and Accountability MICA - Fox Building, Room 320 (3rd Floor)Ebony Dumas • Christopher Kojzar • Teresa Durkin • Zoe Megins-Davies

9:00am EDT

MOBILE WORKSHOP 12: Creative Placemaking in Highlandtown: Nurturing Healthy, Vibrant and Diverse Communities TBA

1:30pm EDT

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

2:30pm EDT

PANEL: Inner Harbor 2.0—Inventing Waterfront Placemaking in a Post Industrial Society Fred Lazarus IV Center, Auditorium (MICA)Laurie Schwartz • Adam Genn • Amelle Schultz • Jacqueline Bershad • Michael Humes

4:15pm EDT

WORKSHOP: Collective Action: Agenda-Setting for the PlacemakingUS Network The Club CarRyan Smolar • Madeleine Spencer PANEL: Crafting Contextually Appropriate Open Spaces: Embracing Community Identity through Placemaking Fred Lazarus IV Center, Auditorium (MICA)Kris Hoellen Hoellen • John Pezzulla • Scott Vieth • Kenneth Young • Brian Reetz SHORT TALKS: Filling Vacancies: Reusing Storefronts, Alleys, and Empty Lots The GarageIlana Preuss • Tina Govan • Lisbeth Iversen • Alan Chan • Alexis Rourk-Reyes • Heidi Youngha Cho • Simon Bertrang

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

2:00pm EDT

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 • Ana Mengote Baluca • Nancy Goldring • Dejia Danhi • Fiorella Pinillos • Shawn Dunwoody

3:45pm EDT

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 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