SUPERFRONT presents “Design with Detroit: Urban Futures” Rapid Charrette

Saturday, January 14, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm, 2012

SUPERFRONT Detroit Director Chloe Bass at Ellen Donnelly’s and David Karle’s LIGHT UP! project, commissioned by SUPERFRONT after winning a juried RFP process last fall, was installed at the SUPERFRONT Detroit 25 Inch plot, located at 13949 Evergreen Road.

SUPERFRONT presents “Design with Detroit: Urban Futures,” a rapid design charrette for students and young designers at the Queens Museum of Art. Designers will have 30 minutes to review a brief and 2 hours to respond with design drawings in real time. The goal of the charrette is to generate designs informed by awareness of the city’s rich contemporary cultural practices, as well as the history of anti-displacement organizing in Detroit and beyond. The design problems to address range from the rehabilitation of historic buildings in commercial districts to design-build strategies for multi-generational education centers and productive use of collective open space. The program brief for the design includes a screening of the 12-minute music video/documentary “Locusts,” a work of the Detroit-based EMERGENCE media.

This is the 3rd event in SUPERFRONT’s Detroit: Lab for Urban Futures series at the Queens Museum of Art presented in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art’s exhibits Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore and Another Detroit is Happening, a partnership gallery show of work by Detroit Summer youth’s LAMP program.  The series culminates with a publication release in February.