Do-It-yourself (DIY) urbanism is a worldwide movement where individuals make changes to their streets or neighborhoods using creative interventions. DIY urbanism can range from a large-scale event like PARKing Day, to organizing a few friends to transform a street median into a “guerrilla garden”.
Join Alaska Design Forum and UAA’s Center for Community Engagement and Learning for a hands-on workshop focused on improving cities with Dr. Jeff Hou, department chair of landscape architecture at the University of Washington.
ANCHORAGE
Sunday, November 2, 2014
1:00-4:00 p.m. @ Anchorage Museum – Reynolds Classroom
Free, advance registration is required. Limited to 55 participants.
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Dr. Hou has a multidisciplinary background in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and public art. He is the editor of Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (2010) and a co-author of Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Urban Community Gardens in Seattle (with Julie Johnson and Laura Lawson) (2009). He is a contributor to Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism (2008) and Companion to Urban Design (2011). His research on innovative practices of community participation and design education has also been published in Journal of Planning Education and Research, Landscape Journal, Journal of Architectural Education, and Open House International.
Following Dr. Hou’s talk, participants will be split into groups and brainstorm transformative ideas using the Alaska Design Forum’s contemporary cabin design challenge (“Cabin”) as a case study.
