Join us this Friday at 12:30 for a round table discussion on Community Design and City Planning! This lecture is part of our special BOLIGLABORATORIUM housing exhibit; for more info, check out our Housing Lab page.
How do we envision the future of housing in Portland and the Pacific Northwest? The current exhibition by Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab at PSU’s School of Architecture offers a basis to investigate housing models responsive to imminent urban challenges, diverse ways of living, and climate-conscious lifestyles. We invite you to join our panel discussions focusing on designs for new housing types, exploring the existing diversity of families and households, community-oriented projects, sustainable approaches for urban density, and policies promoting affordable and vibrant neighborhood developments.
This Friday, we delve into co-housing projects deeply grounded in building urban communities committed to justice, equity, and inclusion. We will be joined by Ernesto Fonseca from Hacienda CDC, Cleo Davis from Albina Vision Trust, and Mark Lakeman from Communitecture to hear about culturally specific approaches to housing that center on urban community building. The project presentations will open the discussion about various methods and concepts for a lasting urban integration of diverse communities with their dreams, desires, and needs. The urban projects address the cultural complexities of the restorative redevelopment of Albina, re-rooting the Black community, rooting the Latino community, and integrating permaculture as new territorial practices in urban co-housing strategies.
Our panel: Mark Lakeman from Communitecture, Cleo Davis from Vision Trust, and Ernesto Fonseca from Hacienda CDC. Moderated by our PSU Architecture faculty member Andrew Santa Lucia.
What is Friday@1?
On most Fridays at 1 p.m. during the academic term, PSU School of Architecture students and faculty gather to hear from professional designers and architects, academics, visiting artists, innovators, and students in the program. Friday@1 is a perfect way to wrap up each week of intense creativity in the studio and get inspired for the productive weekend ahead.
Free and Open to the public. All are welcome.