For the second lecture in this season's
Design Excellence Series, the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh
(CDCP) is bringing Margaret Crawford, a professor in the Harvard
Graduate School of Design and creator of 101 Urban Salvations, to
Point Park's University Center on Monday, February 16. at 6 p.m.
“With this series we're hoping to
inspire Pittsburgh to aspire to better design,” says Nancy Hart of
the CDCP. “Design with more civic engagement.”
As an example of a community centered
design process, Margaret Crawford and her students canvassed their
city, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and asked everyone to answer the
question, “Cambridge could be a better place to live if...” They
talked to a broad range of residents- rich and poor, elderly and
school children- and compiled te results into 101
Salvations, a collection of 101 suggestions for improving the city.
“The suggestions were surprising and
illuminating,” says Hart. “And the entire community was engaged
in the process.”
The lecture at Point Park costs $20 and
will be followed by a panel discussion, with a cocktail reception
afterward, where attendees will have the opportunity to speak with
Crawford. The third and final lecture in this year's Design
Excellence Series, featuring landscape architect and University of
California, Berkeley professor Walter Hood, will take place on April
20.
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Writer: Rob Cullen
Source: Nancy Hart, director of development of the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh
Image courtesy Community Design Center of Pittsburgh