Archive for the ‘Pop Up City’ Category

The Dreamer’s Lounge (a pop-up library)  The Broadway Free Library, 5437 Broadway Ave. (Slavic Village neighborhood)  Cleveland, OH 44127 Monday, January 17, 2011 (MLK Jr. Day) 6:00 p.m – 9:00 p.m. We’re excited to announce the upcoming Pop Up City sponsored event — The Dreamer’s Lounge. This one night only pop-up library will transform the currently [...]

Photos taken from the Brite Winter Festival on Saturday…(go to article)

On February 23rd ODOT and the City Planning Department held a public meeting to discuss the latest updates on Lakefront West—a project that is supposed to finally mesh the West Side’s lakefront back into the city fabric. While there are plusses to the project (e.g., a multi-use path) the negatives are nevertheless real, and include [...]

Brite Winter Festival Saturday, February 27th, 2010 Food and Beverages Italian goodness and adult sodas, courtesy of Louie at Sainato’s Restaurant Soup, sweets, and soothing hot drinks, courtesy of our sponsor Gypsy Bean Coffee and Baking… (go to article)

Hi.  This Saturday, from 5-10pm, the Brite Winter Festival is taking over Hart Crane Memorial Park and it’s my opinion that you should be there. Here’s what’s going down… (go to article)

Terry Schwarz wants to save our cities– and she is prepared to do it in a bear suit. Schwarz, a senior planner at the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) and adjunct professor at Kent State University, has been coordinating creative temporary uses of vacant land through Pop Up City, an initiative of the Shrinking Cities Institute at [...]

This past weekend, the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) introduced much of Cleveland to the dark underside of the Veterans’ Memorial Bridge–only it wasn’t so dark.  The streetcar level of the bridge was brought to life, with a design charrette, performance artists, and a mob of Clevelanders eager to explore Cleveland’s industrial past and re-imagine its [...]

It had spent the last week living under a rock in complete denial of interweb communications or the sun perhaps you had missed out on the Bridge Project an injection of Ingenuity Fest which took place on the streetcar level of the Detroit Superior (Veteran’s Memorial) Bridge and hosted the fifth Pecha Kucha Cleveland. There [...]

In the first few hours of the Bridge Project, the haunting tones of a cello filled the air, silver and red shiny stalactites swayed from a ceiling, and riders pedaling a seven-person circular bicycle whooped and giggled as they swished past surprised pedestrians. “Yeah, it’s very bizarre,” laughed Kevin James, 38, of Cleveland, about the [...]

This Friday (4pm-midnight) and Saturday (noon-midnight), KSU’s Urban Design Collaborative and IngenuityFest are highlighting the possibilities for the pedestrian level of Cleveland’s Detroit-Superior Bridge with family-friendly and FREE art exhibits, installations, performances, and entertainment.  Food, drinks and arts and crafts will also be for sale. This is clearly not a party to miss, especially since this is a one-time event [...]

BridgeProject Friday, September 25th and Saturday, September 26th, 2009 on THE Detroit-Superior Bridge (Lower Level) 2433 Superior Viaduct Friday: 4pm – midnight Saturday: 12noon – midnight The Bridge Project is a collaboration between Ingenuity, Pop Up City | KSU Urban Design Collaborative and All Go Signs, with participation by Cleveland Public Art, the Cuyahoga River [...]

The Bridge Project. on lower level of The Detroit-Superior Bridge 2433 Superior Viaduct September 25 & 26, 2009 Friday from 4pm – midnight | Saturday from noon – midnight Click here for more info and for a schedule of the Project’s events, shows and exhibits… (go to article)

September 25, and 26th AllGoSigns, the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative and Ingenuity Festival is hosting an event on the trolley level of the Detroit Superior (or Veteran’s Memorial) Bridge with art, food and fun times (fun times actually guaranteed), and it is all free. Its called (drumroll) the Bridge Project… (go to article)

What if the Detroit-Superior Bridge lower level became a public space? How would you use it? Now is your chance to see it happen. 1. Visit www.BridgeProjectVote.com to share your thoughts on initial concepts developed by students involved in the Bridge Project design[build] charrette. Leave your comments on the projects and begin a dialogue with the students. What [...]

Electric Roller Disco Tech Friday, August 28th, 2009 Leff Electric building, 1163 East 40th St., Cleveland, 44114 7-10pm …for a night of music, fun, dance and rolling — all with a view of Lake Erie. Bring your roller skates, roller blades, and heelies. Don’t have wheels? No problem. Just bring yourself and a desire to [...]

The next Pop Up City event is coming on August 25th… It’s a disco roller rink (sort of) in the old Leff Electric Building at 1163 E. 40th Street. It’s an old industrial building with great views of the lake… (go to article)

“Every year, graduate students at the CUDC take part in a community design charrette, which addresses the urban design needs of a particular site or neighborhood in Northeast Ohio. During the charrette, students are asked to gather relevant data about the focus area in preparation for a community meeting where stakeholders and residents share their thoughts and desires for the neighborhood. The students then work along side [...]

“The Pop Up City animation, made by Gauri Torgalkar and David Jurca from the CUDC, was announced today as a winner of MOCA Cleveland’s Neighborhood Watch Video Competition!  A narrative of a proposed development on the port site made by KSU graduate student Sukant Bhatnagar was also selected as one of the eight winning video shorts. The films will [...]





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