April 22nd, 2021 3:00pm-6:00pm EDT

Zoom Link (more below)

FLOW: 5-10 minute participant focus w/ 10-15 minutes for explorations/Q&A

Intro/Overview/Context: 3:00-3:20pm

PHIN-CO: 3 Approaches to Co-Design & Phoenix Center “Wicked Problem” & Possibilities: Plazas, Libraries, Streets & the New “Work from Home/Learn from Home” REALITY

Placemaking US: Introduction to Placemaking & the Bottom-Up, Networked Approach via the Placemake Earth Challenge “Co-Design w/ Nature” Theme

BIG Picture for the BIG Green City: 3:20-4:00pm

  1. American Rescue Plan & Infrastructure: Broadband Initiative w/ MI State Senator Rosemary Bayer

  2. Community Voice, Participation & Program Development w/ Robert Bass Citizens District Council

  3.  Intro to “Design Thinking for Place-Based Transportation Innovation” with USDOT Fellow & University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Ph.D Candidate Lindsay Oluyede, AICP

Parks, Libraries & Out of School EXPERIENCES as Social Infrastructure: 4:00-5:00pm 

  1. Beaudette Park, Clinton River Trail w/ Min. Kathalee James, Founder of Friends of the Pontiac Parks Association 

  2. Addressing “Wicked Problems” in Parks via Placemaking & “Kids in Cities” Forum w/ Placemaking US (Ryan Smolar, Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District, Madeleine Spencer, Executive Director Santa Ana Business Council, Tina Govan, Founder Placemaking Studio, North Carolina) 

  3. H. Bill Maxey, Treasurer Pontiac Public Library 

Mobility, Innovation, Connected PLACES & Intersections: 5:00-6:00pm

  1. Chattanooga: Place, Broadband Infrastructure, Racial Equity & Digital Learning w/ Brie Stevens

  2. Detroit’s Ford Mobility Innovation District (Connections) 

  3. United Streets of America w/ Placemaking US

Our event is hosted during the second annual Placemake Earth Challenge connected to global networks of changemakers and communities within Placemaking US, Placemaking Europe and Placemaking X.

Playing off of the “Co-Design w/ Nature” theme of this year’s challenge, we’ll explore a “triple threat” of projects, bodies of design work, and emergent fields of design practice to consider as we strive for more harmonious “biophilic” relationships and experience, to include:

Great Challenges:

  1. Pandemic/Post-Pandemic Navigation

  2. Climate Change

  3. Capitalism and Public Sector Transformation

Co-Design Principles:

  1. The Design of Childhood by Alexandra Lange

  2. Design in Nature by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane

  3. Design, When Everybody Designs by Ezio Manzini

Design Practice for Communities & Placemakers:

  1. Design for Service

  2. Design for Social Innovation

  3. Transition Design

Southeast Michigan Transformative Projects:

  1. Detroit’s Ford Mobility Innovation District

  2. Pontiac’s Ottawa Towers/Phoenix Center Innovation District, PUBLIC Rooftop Plaza, Tech & Transportation Center

  3. Friends of the Pontiac Parks Association and Social Infrastructure

What ideas are you interested in developing and/or exploring for Earth Day 51? Send us your concerns, ideas, thoughts, complaints, criticisms etc. to monica@phinco.org - so we might develop a more thoughtful, interactive and engaged “Digital Design Charrette” experience. Participants TBA…Facebook event link: https://fb.me/e/bzgCuyMJq