Cities are host to a variety of cultural assets, from local music to theatre, community arts and nightclubs. But not all of them prioritize these assets or their infrastructure — the spaces where creatives work, live and perform. In the quest to attract the “creative class”, these cities can neglect the very culture creators who made them attractive places to begin with. For the sake of avoiding the scourge of the “non-place”, Rebecca Greenwald has a simple request: listen to your creatives, preserve your cultural assets, and create a culture that is authentic and attractive for locals and tourists alike.
Check out our conversation with Rebecca, and be sure to check out her article with Yvonne Lo on Next City for more on the full report for the World Cities Culture Forum.
Don’t forget — we’re a crowdfunded podcast, which means we rely on YOU! If you like what you hear, contribute to our efforts by becoming our patron at www.patreon.com/thirdwaveurbanism. Thank you to our supporters, and thank you all for listening, sharing, and doing what you do!
Episode references:
Making Space for Culture (World Cities Culture Forum) :
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/assets/others/171020_MSFC_Report_DIGITAL.pdf
Making Space for Culture: How Cities Can Preserve Their Valued (and Valuable) Cultural Assets - https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/making-space-for-culture-how-cities-can-preserve-their-valued-and-valuable
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Cities are host to a variety of cultural assets, from local music to theatre, community arts and nightclubs. But not all of them prioritize these assets or their infrastructure — the spaces where creatives work, live and perform. In the quest to attract the “creative class”, these cities can neglect the very culture creators who made them attractive places to begin with. For the sake of avoiding the scourge of the “non-place”, Rebecca Greenwald has a simple request: listen to your creatives, preserve your cultural assets, and create a culture that is authentic and attractive for locals and tourists alike.
Check out our conversation with Rebecca, and be sure to check out her article with Yvonne Lo on Next City for more on the full report for the World Cities Culture Forum.
Don’t forget — we’re a crowdfunded podcast, which means we rely on YOU! If you like what you hear, contribute to our efforts by becoming our patron at www.patreon.com/thirdwaveurbanism. Thank you to our supporters, and thank you all for listening, sharing, and doing what you do!
Episode references:
Making Space for Culture (World Cities Culture Forum) :
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/assets/others/171020_MSFC_Report_DIGITAL.pdf
Making Space for Culture: How Cities Can Preserve Their Valued (and Valuable) Cultural Assets - https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/making-space-for-culture-how-cities-can-preserve-their-valued-and-valuable
Intro and closing music is “Urban Life” by Gustavs Strazdin used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
African Americans make up about 12 percent of the population in the U.S. but only about two percent of registered architects, with African American women consisting of .02 percent of architects overall. If the practice is meant to reflect the people being designed for, it will need to find ways to promote diversity within the field and in educational programs. In this episode we talk with three members of Perkins+Will, one of the first big US studios to hire a Director of Global Diversity, who are aiming to do just that.
Our guests include: Gabrielle Bullock, an active member of NOMA (the National Organization of Minority Architects), Director of Global Diversity and leader of Perkins+Will’s Diversity+Inclusion+Engagement Strategic Plan; Nick Seierup, Design Principal in the Los Angeles office and inaugural Visiting Scholar at Tuskegee University; and Kevin Holland, Director of Operations at Perkins+Will LA, also on the Architectural Advisory Board at Tuskegee University and a past President of NOMA.
Don’t forget — we’re a crowdfunded podcast, which means we rely on YOU! If you like our intersectional take on urbanism, you can contribute to our efforts by becoming our patron at www.patreon.com/thirdwaveurbanism. Thank you to our supporters, and thank you all for listening, sharing, and doing what you do!
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Katrina can be found at @think_katrina
Kristen can be found at @blackurbanist
Episode references:
Perkins+Will Diversity + Inclusion + Engagement Initiative: https://perkinswill.com/purpose/diversity
Perkins+Will and Tuskegee University Annual Visiting Scholar Program: http://perkinswill.com/news/tuskegee-university-launch-annual-professional-visiting-scholar-program
National Organization of Minority Architects: http://www.noma.net/
Architects Newspaper’s interview with Gabrielle Bullock: https://archpaper.com/2016/10/talks-gabrielle-bullock-director-global-diversity-perkinswill/
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Cities are host to a variety of cultural assets, from local music to theatre, community arts and nightclubs. But not all of them prioritize these assets or their infrastructure — the spaces where creatives work, live and perform. In the quest to attract the “creative class”, these cities can neglect the very culture creators who made them attractive places to begin with. For the sake of avoiding the scourge of the “non-place”, Rebecca Greenwald has a simple request: listen to your creatives, preserve your cultural assets, and create a culture that is authentic and attractive for locals and tourists alike.
Check out our conversation with Rebecca, and be sure to check out her article with Yvonne Lo on Next City for more on the full report for the World Cities Culture Forum.
Don’t forget — we’re a crowdfunded podcast, which means we rely on YOU! If you like what you hear, contribute to our efforts by becoming our patron at www.patreon.com/thirdwaveurbanism. Thank you to our supporters, and thank you all for listening, sharing, and doing what you do!
Episode references:
Making Space for Culture (World Cities Culture Forum) :
http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/assets/others/171020_MSFC_Report_DIGITAL.pdf
Making Space for Culture: How Cities Can Preserve Their Valued (and Valuable) Cultural Assets - https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/making-space-for-culture-how-cities-can-preserve-their-valued-and-valuable
Intro and closing music is “Urban Life” by Gustavs Strazdin used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
