Backboard by Max Carr.
Courtesy IUD
Urban Design Week 2011: By the City / For the City
The 30-year-old Institute for Urban Design (IUD) is dedicated to fostering dialog about urban planning that involves more than the usual professionals and policy wonks by reaching out to engage the real public stakeholders: the neighbors, small businesses, and residents in the direct line of urban development’s impact. What more effective outreach could there be than crowd sourcing? With its fall initiative,
Blackboard by Max Carr (above right) who suggested that the unused backsides of billboards could be used by local artists (above) and Loading Dock Theater by Gans Studio, proposing that even temporarily empty spaces can be scheduled for pop-up performing arts events (below).
