Event: Chicago K-12 Design Educator Potluck
Presentation: You Can Change Your City by Alex Gilliam of Public Workshop
Date: Thursday February 4th from 6.30-8.00 pm-ish
Location: Landon Bone Baker Architects, 734 N Milwaukee Ave.
Here’s why you shouldn’t miss it:
Normally Public Workshop wouldn’t trumpet giving a presentation at a relatively informal event but ladies and gents, the people who are involved [...]
From Public Workshop’s Project Archives:
Project: The Sunshine School, The Movie!
Location:Newbern, AL
Project Director: Alex Gilliam
Year: 2004
Yep, the export quality from this movie I made many, many years ago leaves a lot to be desired but it does a knock up job conveying the incredible spirit of the project and the students I worked with at the [...]
Of the many wonderful things I have seen thus far in Chicago, one of my favorites is the work that Mejay Gula, Kelly Van Eaton and Charlie Vinz, are doing with Chicago high school students through the After School Matters (here) program. Last fall Mejay and Charlie worked with their students to design and build [...]
From Public Workshop’s Project Archives:
Project: The Sunshine School
Location:Newbern, AL
Project Director: Alex Gilliam
Year: 2004
ʻOur school was really in a mess. And since it was down, everyone here was down because it was just a disaster.ʼ
Many of the schools in rural Alabama are in an incredible state of physical and emotional disrepair because they have been historically understaffed, under funded, and [...]
On Tuesday October 20th at 7.00 pm , Public Workshop will be presenting at the Building A Healthier Austin symposium. The organizers have done a great job of assembling a diverse cast of characters involved in health care, transportation, housing, planning, etc. for what will be a great and inspiring conversation. The focus will be [...]
We’re almost there ladies and gents. The front page still has a few tweaks and the individual blog post pages need some serious reprogramming but the Public Workshop redesign is almost complete. A little re-framing here, a couple of pieces of sheet rock there, a liberal dabbling of caulk and we’ll be ready to go. [...]
73 designers and children designing, learning and building intently together.
3 fantastic Newhouse/ Taliesin Fellows helping facilitate.
Fabulous collaboration, support and organizing by Krisann Rehbein, Raul, Jean and the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
9 structures in three hours.
A ridiculous amount of pine, 4000 zip ties and sandwiches.
1 fantastic Grant Park.
And 1 Intuitive Building Process that turns designers, teachers and [...]
I’m an individual coming alone, what should you bring?
Twist the arm of at least one friend, neighbor or random person on the street.
A chair for yourself- fancy or folding optional.
A keen eye for possibility .
A brunch treat/beverage of your choosing and the necessary utensils/tools for consuming said offering.
Your best swinging pants (and I don’t mean [...]
February 3, 2010
imagining, teaching