Public Workshop

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
Hosted by the Institute for the Future at Anne Arundel Community College

A representation of the work produced by each team during the charrette followed up with an open house-style community session. Please come to see the work, ask questions, and share your thoughts on how Annapolis can lead the way as a 21st century American city.

June 4-5, 2008
A group of invited Loeb Fellows from design, community, and planning organizations around the country, will come to Annapolis to review the products and process of the charrette. They will bring their expertise to bear in an 'Action Plan' submitted to Annapolis as a gifted road map of sorts to suggest the next steps in moving forward toward a vision of what Annapolis will become in the 21st century.

Past Events

reCreating Annapolis: Urban Innovation in the 21st Century
3:00 p.m. Sunday, 16 September, 2007
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
Charles Landry, Urban Consultant, Comedia, U.K.

"The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators" British urban futurist Charles Landry, author of The Creative City and The Art of City Making, will explore the role of citizens and culture in creating dynamic, self-sustaining 21st-centuries cities.

Pressures, Progress, and Choice: Development and Quality of Life in Annapolis
7:00 p.m. Tuesday, 23 October, 2007
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
Jason Sartori, Partnership for Land Use Success, National Center for Smart Growth UMD
William Morrish, the Elwood R. Quesada Professor of Architecture UVA

Is Annapolis doomed by suburban sprawl? Can we shape development and growth of our City to benefit healthy city neighborhoods? What form should our metropolitan city take in the future and what options do we have? You're invited to consider these critical issues fro our future with William Morrish, Professor of Architecture at UVA, and Jason Sartori, principal of Integrated Planning Consultants and an affiliate of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education.

Cars vs. People: Is There Transportation in Annapolis' Future?
7:00 p.m. Tuesday, 27 November, 2007
Boys & Girls Club, Bates Heritage Center, 121 South Villa Avenue
Jane Holtz Kay

For the half century, cities have focused on getting more cars with more people to more places in our urban environment. The results have been traffic congestion, longer commute times, ever expanding roadway infrastructure, and a deterioration of the urban environment. Jane Holtz Kay, architectural critic for The Nation and renowned author of Asphalt Nation, will discuss the economic, emotional, and physical gridlock caused by cars in American cities and propose ways to get where we need to go without destroying where we live.

Migrating Opportunity: Where are the Workers in a Gentrified Annapolis?
7:00 p.m. Tuesday, 22 January, 2008
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
Boys & Girls Club, Bates Heritage Center, 121 South Villa Avenue
Roberto Suro, Annenberg School, University of Southern California

"Hispanic In-Migration in the American City?"
Annapolis success has meant skyrocketing real estate values, pricing middle-class and working-class families out of the market. This session will explore the disappearing middle class in American cities with Roberto Suro discussing the impact Hispanic in-migration will have on American cities in the future.

Trapped in Time: Is Annapolis History?
7:00 p.m. Tuesday, 26 February, 2008
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
Howard Mansfield, author of The Same Ax Twice

"Preservation and Use: and Modern Cultural Challenge"
Annapolis began preserving its historic core over 50 year's ago and heritage tourism has become a mainstay of the local economic. This evening's Conversation will explore the role of preservation and history in the 21st-century city: Is heritage passé? Does preservation lead to fossilized city centers that are ill-equipped to deal with modern urban life? What tactics can we employ to simultaneously save and modernize Annapolis into the 21st century?

Week of March 15-19, 2008
EnVISIONing Annapolis

Professors, experts and students from several regional universities have been invited to gather in Annapolis, and with the support and creative input from local architects and other consultants, illustrate a visionary scenario of Annapolis in the year 2060. At the helm of each team will be an educator and their hand-picked team of colleagues and associate professors. To assist them, teams of students from both their respective universities and others will bring working hands to draw, construct, and render the conceptual solutions.

Each team, while led by a university representative, will be organized around a specific issue or ‘Hypothetical Scenario'. The results of this charrette will include drawings, diagrams, maps, and models that describe and imagine long-term strategies to the economic, ecological, and demographic pressures facing the city today and tomorrow.