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Ronit Eisenbach

School of Architecture, University of Maryland
Professor & Director Creative Placemaking
College Park, MD
Websitehttps://umdsmartgrowth.org/people/ronit-eisenbach/
Wednesday, June 5
 

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

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

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 SHORT TALKS: Creating People-First Streets, Transit & Infrastructure MICA - Brown Center, Falvey HallJackson Chabot • Derek Moore • Jacque Gonzalez-Garcia • Maura Dwyer • Oscar Suastegui Quintero • Sabina Sethi Unni • Sam Carter-Shamai • Yuxiang Luo

3:45pm EDT

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 SHORT TALKS: Grantmaking for Placemaking: Supporting Community Projects MICA - Brown Center, Falvey HallNate Storring • Meagan Heber • Aaron Kaufman • Aisha Glover • Amy Cohen • Martha Snow • Sarah Lewitus • Shaylee Zaugg

5:30pm EDT

SOCIAL EVENT: Howard Street Block Party! 400 Block of N. Howard Street
 
Thursday, June 6
 

9:00am EDT

MOBILE WORKSHOP 10: Researching the AFRO American Newspaper Archives TBA

2:30pm EDT

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)Laurie Schwartz • Adam Genn • Amelle Schultz • Jacqueline Bershad • Michael Humes

4:15pm EDT

WORKSHOP: Urban Cipher: A Race and Space Board Game Impact Hub BaltimoreChristina Delgado • Amanda Foran • JaVon Townsend, LCSW-C • Heidi Thomas 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

6:00pm EDT

TOUR: Ghost Rivers Public Art Project Tour (Register Link in Description)

6:30pm EDT

Outdoor Movie Night - "The Place Man" & "The Social Life of Small Urban Places" 1926 N Charles Street

8:00pm EDT

TOUR: Evening Light Tour of Signal Station North (Register Link in Description)
 
Friday, June 7
 

2:00pm EDT

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

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 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