5.3 Pruitt-Igoe: Values and Significance
åsa berggren U+A/DL 2012/13
RETHINKING WASTE
“My goal is to take the history of Pruitt-Igoe which is taboo, which is a blemish, which is the worst disaster ever, and say OK, yes that did happen, but there’s so much energy, so much interest in Pruitt-Igoe. Not only through art and through architecture, but through social workers… It’s a very interdisciplinary, rich subject. And so if all that energy is going there, if you just switch the current and have it go the other way, taking one of the worst examples of public housing and transforming it to one of the leading examples of renewal, that is pretty powerful. This place has incredible, amazing potential that could be a doorway, a symbol for North St. Louis, saying: it’s not all bad.” -
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Juan William Chávez, artist and founder of the Northside Workshop