From Public Workshop’s Project Archives: Project: An Outdoor Classroom & Community Space For PS 134 Location:New York, NY Project Director: Alex Gilliam with help from Thor Snilsberg from Project For Public Spaces Year: 2006 Is it possible for children to make meaningful contributions in design processes beyond doing crayon doodles or filling out questionnaires? ‘I want [...]
It’s been in the works for a couple of months now but it’s now official, Public Workshop will be working with fifteen Chicago teenagers starting in late June of this summer to design-build food carts for a local community organization. Actually, we should clarify that they may not actually end up being food carts, depending [...]
April 15, 2010
‘Good follows good.’ -Bernard, owner of Bernard’s Wear and Stepper Store www.bernardswear.com Project: We Live Here Location: Chicago, IL Project Director: Alex Gilliam with Brenda Gamboa for Landon Bone Baker Architects Year: 2010 Some of the most striking things about Landon Bone Baker Architects (here) are their confident but humble approach to their work and the [...]
And Brainstorming And Then Eating The Cake Too. Oh my goodness. Last weekend was one the most amazing design-build adventures I’ve ever been a part of. Mind you, it was cake and we didn’t get to do any sort of ‘built’ imagining of possibility on the cake itself but: 1.The number of people who participated [...]
February 11, 2010
The Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD) in Philadelphia was opened in 1999 with the goal of using architecture and design to facilitate more effective learning of traditional subjects, and to encourage a greater awareness of good design and the built environment. In his capacity as the Director of Design, Alex Gilliam (Director of Public Workshop) assembled the Department, wrote the Design Department Curriculum, served as lead Department Chair for the school and designed projects, and events that set up a general framework for school’s multidisciplinary learning approach. These projects and events focused on learning through doing, designing and making.
February 11, 2010
Can design project based around Alfred Hitchcock's classic, 'The Birds' lead to tremendous academic achievement from underperforming children? Can designing for a red breasted sapsucker and a frazzled couple from Bodega Bay lead to great things?
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 [...]
February 1, 2010
Project: The Citizen Designer Workshop-Integrating Youth + Community Into Everyday Practice Location: New York, NY Project Director: Alex Gilliam for the Hester Street Collaborative Year: 2006-2007 Patience, patience. More information is on the way.
Project: Community Innovation Incubator Location: Chicago, IL Project Director: Alex Gilliam Year: Current How Do You Seed Community Innovation? Within An Architecture Firm? Within The Profession? In December, Landon Bone Baker Architects (LBBA) hired Public Workshop to help them answer these challenging questions as it relates to their small but incredibly productive practice in Chicago, IL. [...]
January 21, 2010
Project: Bad Design Darts, Step-On Your Neighborhood Pavers And Other Tools For Rethinking Community Engagement Location: New York, NY Project Director: Alex Gilliam for the Hester Street Collaborative Year: 2006-2007 Patience, patience. More information is on the way.
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 [...]
December 21, 2009
From Public Workshop’s Project Archives: Project: Community Baseball Cards Location:New York, NY Project Director: Alex Gilliam and the Citizen Designer Workshop for the Hester Street Collaborative Year: 2007 Patience, patience. More information is on the way.
December 2, 2009
Public Workshop couldn’t be more excited to be working with Landon Bone Baker Architects in Chicago to create a social entrepreneurship program for their firm. Landon Bone Baker is well known for their their many things but particularly for thoughtful affordable housing projects such as the renovation of Archer Courts in Chicago (pictured above).
Project: What’s Poppin’ On Fulton Street? Redesigning The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s City Of Neighborhoods Program. Location: New York, NY Project Directors: Alex Gilliam and Damon Rich of the Center For Urban Pedagogy Year: 2007 Not to worry, more information is on the way. Stay tuned!
A six foot long Betty Crocker version of Waller Creek? (not the tiny garden pictured here-kid’s stuff). That’s right, six feet long. Have we lost our minds? Probably. An impossible feat? Maybe but we’re going to have a mighty fine time trying. That’s right ladies and gents, as part of the East Austin Studio Tours, [...]
Project: Rebranding The Sunshine School Location:Newbern, AL Project Director: Alex Gilliam Year: 2004 Not to worry, more information is on the way. Stay tuned!
Waller Creek Is For Beasts And Diorama Making that challenges people’s perceptions of what happens in Waller Creek, AND gets them to look a bit closer at all of the fantastic things found in the Creek. Here are some more pictures from last weekend’s endeavors. You can also check out the group’s flickr stream and [...]
Project: Intuitive Building System Location:Austin, TX Project Director: Alex Gilliam and Everett Hollander Year: 2009 Not to worry, more information is on the way. Stay tuned! In the meantime have a look at the related projects that grew out of our work by clicking (here). There are few others in the mix that are related [...]
Project: The Roo Table Location:Austin, TX Project Director: Alex Gilliam Year: 2008 Not to worry, more information is on the way. Stay tuned!
Project: Creating The Architecture Program At The Pennsylvania Governor’s School For The Arts Location:Erie, PA Project Director: Alex Gilliam Year: 2001-2001 Not to worry, more information is on the way. Stay tuned!
May 3, 2010
building, designing, imagining