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TODAY @ CREATIVE FUTURE Festival Beyond Concrete: Building a Path for the Future of Atlanta’s Westside Tabea Fahr, Taylor Coles, Ingeborg M. Rocker, PhD. and Rusty Smith explore the challenges and opportunities of redeveloping Atlanta’s Westside. One of Atlanta’s most salient and popular planning gems, the Atlanta Beltline, was conceived within an academic context and enthusiastically adopted by the city government. It is a great piece of planning that has energized and connected neighborhoods across the city, but has also catalyzed the displacement of legacy residents within those neighborhoods. Later phases of The Beltline trail system offer an opportunity for a second chance. What can we from academia, city government, and the development world do to achieve better outcomes on the Westside which include historic Vine City and English Avenue? 3 Reasons to Attend: — Learn strategies for creating inclusive, resilient urban spaces. — Discover how urban design can balance community needs with progress. — Get insights into one of Atlanta’s most significant redevelopment projects. Date: Saturday, September 28, 2024 Time: 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM Location: Fourth Ward Offices (Tower 2), 505 N Angier Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30308 Parking: On-site 1,800-space parking deck Tickets: $75 Secure your spot today. https://lnkd.in/ejxTW7xY Activate to view larger image,

This clip from The Design Conference 2023 features Creative Director: Evi O from Evi O. Studio in Sydney. Watch the full 30-minute talk and 23 others from #TDCbne23 on our YouTube channel. Register now for The Design Conference 2024 at Brisbane Powerhouse from June 05-07, 2024. A link to attend or #stream #TDCbne24 can be found in our bio. Finding and owning your creative flow is a life-long pursuit that requires #guidance, #discipline and an open mind. The Design Conference is a wonderfully #confronting #experience that introduces you to your #dream future, what you must do to grasp it and the people who can support you in your journey. #Expand your #mind and let the #transformation begin.

🌟 Transforming Spaces: Best Practices for Curating Public Art 🌟 Our latest article provides essential guidelines for curating impactful public art projects. Discover strategies to create engaging installations that resonate with diverse communities and transform urban landscapes. Highlights: 1️⃣ Engaging the community to ensure meaningful, inclusive art. 2️⃣ Strategic planning and site selection for successful projects. 3️⃣ Embracing socially engaged practices to address social issues. 4️⃣ Building strong collaborations and partnerships. 5️⃣ Evaluating the impact to measure success and community benefits. 👉 Read more:

Ego has no place in the design process, whether architect, artist, or planner. Check out more insights like this in our latest episode with Elgin Cleckley of Empathic Design. https://loom.ly/Aqg5kuc #empathy #empathicdesign #empathic

📚 How should public digital art evolve with cities? Executive Director Cynthia Noble's essay in Fast Company published today entitled "Evolving cities, evolving façades: public digital art can make our cities better" expands on the question. "When planning and placing public artwork in a shared space, the key is to envision all possible outcomes of how viewers will experience the art and how those outcomes contribute to or detract from the social goods we want in our future cities." Cynthia notes. Read more from Fast Company here: https://bit.ly/3XpNwpI

WHAT MAKES ATLANTA SO DAMN ARTISTIC? As of 2021, 52% of Atlanta’s population is African American, and that identity crucially informs Atlantan art. Add to that a combination of rich cultural heritage, a vibrant arts scene with many nationally acclaimed art institutions. Then throw in a vast diversity of artistic expression across all forms of art and you get a true hotbed. There's a lot of creativity in Atlanta, and appropriately, the 2024 Creative Placemaking Communities summit was held there this week. Atlanta is a CREATIVE PLACEMAKING demonstration in itself. _________ Torque Real Estate Marketing TORQUE is a real estate marketing agency bringing insight and awareness to the emergence of human experience, properties and the community. #atantarealestate #office #commercialrealestate #architecture #realestate #realestateindustry #marketingagency #realestatemarketing #marketingagency 

Big changes could be on the horizon for Congress Avenue... Congress Avenue Urban Design Initiative (CAUDI) has proposed transforming a section of Congress Avenue into a pedestrian-friendly plaza. The initiative suggests turning the blocks between 7th and 11th streets into a vibrant community space featuring interactive art installations, pop-up exhibits, live music performances, and free programming. CAUDI’s vision also includes painting the asphalt with murals that could change over time, replacing parking zones with decks, and improving the health of trees. According to ATX Today, a large portion of the project has already secured funding through the 2020 Austin Mobility Bond. The balance of the project still awaits financing. Austin residents can voice their opinions on the proposed designs at the Downtown Austin Space Activation events on October 22nd and 26th. Austinites, what are your thoughts on these proposed changes? #austinrealestate #residentialrealestate #amyklinerealtor

Really interesting article shared by Mark Mobbs. Instant thought is that this could be a response to "top down" place branding and development decisions, without sufficient community engagement [where community also includes of course key sectors that should be thriving in your place]. But I think that may be a trite response. What it's really about I guess is how can places develop in a way that improves quality of life through attracted investment / jobs but also creates the right environment for creativity and entrepreneurship not only in business but also in the arts and culture.

#expeditions in #design “The best creative outcomes are the result of an inter-disciplinary approach,” Lock says. “At the intersection of different fields of creative practice is where real exploration and discovery begins.” TCL is the one of the only Australian design practices to have initiated a residency program for creatives engaged in all artistic endeavours. https://lnkd.in/gF6RUeDc

For most of my career I’ve taken my creative agency very seriously. That gave me the opportunities to work in an array of sectors from place-based research in vernacular architecture, digital platforms for civic engagement, to internal communications to build collaborative global teams. I couldn’t have navigated the skills needed for these works without my upbringing in the arts and disciplinary training in architecture. The embodied knowledge in heuristics and a deep understanding of aesthetic principles are foundational to my multidisciplinary practice as an artist, designer, and strategist. I truly believe that artistic expression and cultural productions can reach beyond spectacles for consumption and generate new approaches to face a future of uncertainties. What role does arts and culture play in your practice?