April 2, 2010
39221 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Location of Airstream exhibition (parking spot): Museum parking lot
Open exhibition times: 2-3pm
Location of lecture/presentation: 1:30pm
Lecture time: Media Center (Scott Klinker’s class)
Recent Blog Posts
Recap: Cranbrook Academy of Art
Today we dropped by Cranbrook, the bucolic Saarinen-designed campus in Bloomfield Hills just north of Detroit (and Matt’s alma mater). The campus sits amidst some of the most ridiculous McMansions that could easily be mistaken for country clubhouses, not 10 miles from Detroit’s city center. It’s slightly disturbing, but definitely makes for an interesting context within which to discuss design for social equality.
We were hosted by Scott Klinker, Artist-In-Residence for the 3D program. Cranbrook is 2 weeks away from installing spring thesis exhibitions, so many of the students (all graduate students) were unable to attend our lecture. We did draw, however, about 30 students from the 3D, fiber, and architecture programs.
Matt shared some of his experience living and working in Detroit, and his thesis in which he built a house for a low-income family (”I wanted to actually do architecture, not make work about architecture,” he said). We presented our usual lecture, then got into an interesting discussion about public policy and design. Specifically, do our small design interventions have the power to take on public policy decisions and actually affect change at a more systemic level? We would like to think so, though we at Project H have up until now taken the trickle-up point-of-view, where we hope to change behavior for the ground up, and give people the tools to help themselves. As for public policy, I do hope that someday policy makers can better create the conditions for grassroots innovations.
We invited the students out to the trailer for an exhibition viewing and additional discussion. The weather was beautiful and frankly we were just happy to be outside, talking to grad students about the power of design. Junebug, our mascot dog, hid under the truck in the shade until 3pm when the students left and we were on our way.
Quote From The Road: April 2nd
When: April 2nd, 10:52 a.m.
Where: Driving to Cranbrook north of Detroit (and seeing signs for Canada)
Emily: “Well, we’ve officially gone coast to coast, and now border to border”
November 8th, 2009Individual School Pages: Check for Updates
We’ve confirmed 25 different high schools and colleges as official stops on our tour! Each school has its own informational page, which can be accessed from the list on the Itinerary page here. Please check back regularly for updates on each school page- we will be adding specific schedule and location info for where the Airstream will be parked at each stop, along with when and where the lecture will be held as soon as we have confirmed details with each school.
November 1st, 2009List of Confirmed Schools
As of November 1, 2009, the following schools have been confirmed (see the Itinerary page for the full route and more information):
- February 1: Redwood High School, Larkspur, CA
- February 2: Kick-Off Event with Adobe, San Francisco, CA
- February 3: California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- February 4: Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
- February 5: San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
- February 8: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
- February 9: The Design High School, Los Angeles, CA
- February 15: University of Texas, Austin, TX
- February 18: University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
- February 22-23: Auburn University, Auburn, AL
- February 24-26: Hale County Workshop (Learning Landscape build), Greensboro, AL
- March 1-2: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
- March 4-5: Bertie County School District, Windsor, NC
- March 11: Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, MD
- March 12: The Park School, Baltimore, MD
- March 15: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
- March 22: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
- March 23: Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM), Brooklyn, NY
- March 25: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- March 29: Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
- March 30: Design Lab High School, Cleveland, OH
- April 1: College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
- April 2: Cranbrook Academy of Art and High School, Detroit, MI
- April 5-9: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- April 12-13: University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI
- April 15: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
- April 16: Wilmington High School, Wilmington, OH
