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- 2003
Annual Design
Charrette
Integrating
King Street and Waterfront Transportation with South
Downtown Neighborhoods
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Community Service Learning Partnership
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- A partnership between
CEEDS, City of Seattle CityDesign, and Washington
State Department of Transportation, the 18th Annual
Design Charrette offered a community service learning
experience to graduate and undergraduate students. It
resulted in proposals for an integrated transportation
center at King Street Station, mixed-use residential
buildings in the surrounding areas, and streetscape
design focusing on Jackson Street and the proposed
Blue Ring. The charrette drew together key
stakeholders, local businesses and property owners,
and citizens to begin defining an integrative vision
for Seattle's South Downtown. By focusing on a few
"sub-visions," it explored ways to link key
transportation elements at King Street Station and the
waterfront with the goals and plans of the South
Downtown Neighborhoods (Pioneer Square and the
International District) and their resident and
business constituents. While it did not provide all
the answers to the redevelopment of this area, it
offers an important first step in a longer term,
iterative process. Planning for the charrette began in
October 2002, with the charrette taking place March 31
through April 06 2003. Seattle CityDesign published a
report documenting the outcomes in September 2003.The
UW Center for Instructional Development and Research
evaluation the charrette as a learning
environment.
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2001-2003
Public Art
Installation
Thorndyke
Elementary School Ecolab- A
Community Design-build
Project
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- In the fall 2002, an
intergenerational group of volunteers completed an
15-month effort to design and build an outdoor
classroom--called an Ecolab--where children can study
ecology and become stewards of their school site. The
group included children, staff, and parents from
Thorndyke Elementary School who worked alongside
faculty, students, and alumni from the UW's College of
Architecture and Urban Planning, and various other
citizens. The design resulted from a curriculum in
which each grade level, 1st through 5th, studied a
different continent, looking at how a major river
affects the ecology and culture of its surroundings.
Based upon their research, each grade developed
consensus on a garden element, designed to represent a
particular continent. A path--which is made of pavers
hand-painted by each of the school's children--was
created to represent the rivers of the world and link
all the continents to a gazebo where classes can meet.
The Ecolab uses cisterns and permeable materials to
reduce water run-off and incorporates plants that
convey the character of different bio-geographic
regions in the world. Each grade level will be
responsible for the ongoing stewardship of its
continent.
Students, faculty, and
practitioners first explored the concept of an Ecolab
in the 2000 Annual Design Charrette, called Sites
of Learning in Tukwila, sponsored by CEEDS in
partnership with the Tukwila School District. The
volunteer construction crew built the Ecolab on an
irregular piece of land, about 100' x 30' just to the
south of the school at a cost of $30,000. The next
step of the process is to create a curriculum that
will help teachers use the Ecolab for
instruction.
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- 2002
Annual Design
Charrette
Urban
League Village at Colman School
- Alternative
Design Solutions for the Near and Distant
Future
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- The 17th Annual
Design Charrette provided a community-service-learning
opportunity for Madronna Elementary School fifth
graders and UW students in architecture, community and
environmental planning, landscape architecture, urban
design and planning, and social work. Design teams
worked with their community partners to generate both
easy-wins and long-term visionary ideas for the Urban
League Village at Colman School, which extends from
Yesler Way to McClellan Street, and from Rainier
Avenue South to Lake Washington. The charrette focused
on strengthening the connections between the building
and its surrounding context, and explored ways to
extend museum activities out into the neighborhood to
form a "living museum," or cultural center. The
Madronna fifth-grade and adult constituents
participated in separate hands-on sessions to help
build a cohesive vision of the project and organize
champions for the museum and village. The sessions
with adults were observed by doctoral students in
social work who are studying the community-building
aspects of charrettes. The UW Center for Instructional
Development and Research evaluation the charrette as a
learning environment. Social Work doctoral student,
Linda Ishem evaluated it as a community-building
tool.
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- 2002
A Mini Design Charrette
New
School @ South Shore
- Creating
a Safe Space in Which to Grow
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- This weekend
charrette brought together students and faculty in
architecture, interior design, industrial design, and
landscape architecture from the UW and Washington
State University. This group worked with volunteers
from Mithun Architects and with New School staff,
children, and parents; and representatives of the New
School Foundation and Seattle Public Schools. The goal
of the charrette was to generate some low-cost
concepts for a minor renovation to the building that
formerly housed South Shore Middle School, an "open
education" facility at 8825 Rainier Avenue South that
is co-located with the Rainier Beach Community Center.
Community constituents used colored dots to indicate
which ideas were most appealing to them during an open
house at the end of the charrette. After the
charrette, Mithun Architects developed the ideas and
then built a temporary installation using yards of
colorful fabric and recycled materials. Pre-K,
kindergarten, and first-grade children are now
occupying the space while a full-fledged renovation is
being planned.
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2001
Graduate Student K-12
Outreach
Color,
Light, and Space
Arts
Immersion at Bellevue Art Museum
- In Spring 2001, three
graduate architecture students offered a two-hour arts
immersion program--Color, Light, and Space--to middle
school students throughout the city of Bellevue. Using
architect Steven Holl's new Bellevue Art Museum
building as a case study, the graduate students
provided middle school students and their teachers
with a hands-on experience of lighting design. The
group also received instruction at the museum from
museum staff. The CEEDS director served as curriculum
consultant for Color, Light, and Space, which occurred
the twelfth year of a partnership between the museum
and the Bellevue School District.
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- 2001
Annual Design
Charrette
Admiral
Urban Residential Village
- Alternative
Design Solutions for the Near and Distant
Future
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- The 16th Annual
Design Charrette provided a community-service-learning
opportunity for West Seattle High School students and
UWstudents in architecture, community and
environmental planning, landscape architecture, urban
design and planning, and social work. Students
developed alternative design concepts for the Admiral
neighborhood, a stable community with a vibrant
commercial core and well-maintained single-family
homes and apartments. The goal of the charrette was to
stimulate short- and long-term projects that advance
the 1998 Admiral Neighborhood Plan. A professional
design consultant was hired afterwards to carry
forward some of the charrette proposals. The UW Center
for Instructional Development and Research evaluation
the charrette as a learning environment.
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- 2001
Public Art Installation
Tukwila
Elementary School Entry
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Collaboration with the Public Art
Curriculum
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- During Spring 2001,
art, landscape architecture, and industrial design
students designed and built a public art installation
at the entry to Tukwila Elementary School. A needs
assessment by staff called for "a place to view, walk
though, and interact with--one that says the school is
a home-away-from-home for its primarily immigrant
population." The first- through fifth-grade children,
however, were adamant that the design should be a
tiger, which is the school's mascot. The resulting
design is in the form of a giant tiger paw print
formed by a map of the world made of brightly colored
ceramic tiles, large earth mounds, and etched copper
plates representing the claws. A sign points the way
to different locations around the world, including the
UW. This program was undertaken in collaboration with
the UW's Public Art Curriculum.
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- 2000
K-12 Outreach
Messages
from Young Leaders
- A
Collaboration with AIA
Seattle
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- In the fall 2000,
architecture offices throughout the state of
Washington offered this program in civic activism to
youth in their area. In its fourth year, the youth
made several visits to an architecture office where
they produced designs for their ideal learning
environment. In a session at AIA Seattle, the youth
convened and presented their ideas--which focused
primarily on the social spaces they would like to have
in their schools--to educators and legislators. The
program was undertaken in collaboration with AIA
Seattle as part of Architecture Week.
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- 1999-2000
K-12 Outreach + Annual Design Charrette
Sites
of Learning in Tukwila
- Alternative
Design Solutions for the Near and Distant
Future
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- This partnership with
Tukwila School District integrated environmental
design studies into the elementary school curriculum
by teaching children to perceive and understand the
natural and designed environment. The partnership
resulted in the 15th Annual Design Charrette in which
Tukwila fifth graders collaborated with university
students to generate ideas for using the physical
environment as a three-dimensional textbook--called
Sites of Learning in Tukwila. The sites, and
the connections among them, might include small
structures, such as gateways, overlooks, bridges,
shelters, or convenience facilities, that serve both a
practical and symbolic function. The goal was to make
school sites and the city more supportive of play and
learning. The charrette was evaluated by the UW Center
for Instructional Development and research.
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here for Sites
of Learning in Tukwila: Building Community by Design
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- 1999
K-12 Outreach
Messages
from Young Leaders
- A
Collaboration with AIA
Seattle
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- In the fall 1999,
Seattle architects and UW architecture students
offered this program in civic activism to youth
throughout the city. In its third year, architects and
architecture students visited elementary and middle
schools, where they helped children produce designs
for an ideal pedestrian environment. In a session at
Seattle Center, the children discussed their ideals
with Council member Peter Steinbrueck, who asked them
to focus in greater detail on the city's bike paths.
In a follow-up session at City Council, the children
made proposals for improving the bike paths near their
homes. The program was undertaken in collaboration
with AIA Seattle as part of Architecture
Week.
For
more information, click
here
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