MANifesto II

You can link to our article in the Indy here, if you missed it in print.

List of Demands

We demand...

• Conversation, engagement withe the students who will eventually use the Creative Arts Center, which, considering the interdisciplinary goals of the design, could include almost anyone.
• Comfortable spaces for informal and flexible exchanges, not rigid tubs.
• A return to the thoughtful integration of the human subject into the design process.  Student activities shouldn't be an afterthought dropped into a rendering from an image bank; we are not generic scale models meant to "animate" space.

What are your demands?  Feel free to add your thoughts on the Living Room, the overall design, the process, anything as "comments."  The larger the catalogue of critique that we can build in this forum, the more influence we can have on the building...

MANifesto

Look for our full critique on the Opinions Page of the April 16, 2009 issue of the College Hill Independent.  It's sure to get your polemical juices flowing.

Kidnapping!

In This Economy?

The Creative Arts Center is slated to open in 2010 at the corner of Angell St. and "The Walk"—aka the site of the former Shell station.  This date is clearly a pipe dream, as the only thing built on site as of yet is a mock-up of the building's innovative, cinched facade.  The project will move forward despite the grim economy because the Creative Arts Council raised the financing independently.  Without the need to use University funds or borrow significantly, the project is isolated from the gyrations in the market – at least for now.

The Basics

Check out Diller Scofidio + Renfro's website for some published renderings of the Creative Arts Center and the firm's description of the project.  Navigating this bizarre, digital landscape can be a bit of an unnecessary headache, but apparently DS+R values their Brown commission enough to place the CAC front/left (just next to the firm's name).