Collaborative Community Design Initiative: Corridors
What: Susan Rogers will discuss the University of Houston Community Design Resource Center’s (CDRC) publication Collaborative Community Design Initiative: Corridors. A yearlong partnership with four communities in Houston, the project was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and received a National ASLA Collaborative Practice Award in 2010.
Reception and book signing will follow the discussion.
When: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 6pm
Where: Architecture Center Houston (315 Capitol, Suite 120; Houston, TX 77002)
Parking available in the Hobby Center Parking Garage; entrances on Rusk and Walker
Collaborative Community Design Initiative
The Collaborative Community Design Initiative (CCDI) is a program of the University of Houston Community Design Resource Center (CDRC) that builds partnerships between underserved communities, professionals in the fields of design, planning, real estate, and community development, elected officials, and faculty and students. Working across different issues—ranging from ecology, to economics, to the arts and culture—the goal of the program is to collaboratively generate strategies that build on existing community resources and have the potential to create positive and sustainable change.
The Presenting Author
Susan Rogers is the Director of the Community Design Resource Center and an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston College of Architecture. Rogers holds a Masters of City Planning in Community Development, a Masters of Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Houston. She is the co-author of “An Architecture of Change,” the Introduction to Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism, published by Metropolis Press (2008). Her articles have appeared in Places Journal, Cite Magazine, The Architecture and Design Review of Houston, ArtLies, and A Texas Art Journal. She is a member of the editorial committee for Cite Magazine.
Architecture Center Houston (ArCH) is a collaboration of AIA Houston and the Architecture Center Houston Foundation.
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