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abalfin Chua Guy Guest Gyulai ntejo Nash Quinn RoureParera M.R.P. Students Teach Planning Classes at Ithaca Charter School This past spring, six first-year Master of Regional Planning students taught a series of three city planning classes to a 10thgrade class at Ithaca’s New Roots Charter School. The classes combined field studies, interactive group sessions, and self-guided work. “It was a challenge deciding what about planning we wanted to teach, especially because we are still learning a lot ourselves, but ultimately we thought staying ‘close to home’ would make planning more visible and relevant for the New Roots students,” says Anna Brawley (M.R.P. ’11). The students’ final analyses focused on three Ithaca sites in transition: the Commons, the Women’s Community Building, and the former P&C grocery store in the Fall Creek neighborhood. At the end of the series, the 10th-grade students designed a brochure of recommendations and prepared a public presentation to local officials on their findings. The MRP team included Brawley, Celia Benton (M.R.P. ’11), Andrew Bielak (M.R.P. ’11), Karla De Leon (M.R.P. ’11), Victoria Demchak (M.R.P. ’11), Tom Knipe (M.R.P. ’11), and faculty adviser Professor Ann Forsyth. The 2009–10 academic year was the first year of operation for the New Roots Charter School, and this effort was the first urban planning project to be funded by the Graduate Student School Outreach Program (GRASSHOPR).AAP
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Anna Brawley (M.R.P. ’11) spent the summer working as an intern in Chicago with Landmarks Illinois, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on historic preservation in Chicago and statewide. She also volunteered with the Joy Garden at Northside College Prep High School in Chicago. The Joy Garden is a sustainable landscape project managed by Urban Habitat Chicago, a nonprofit organization of architects, landscape architects, and planners who manage local projects that highlight sustainability, local food production, environmentally friendly construction and deconstruction of buildings, and educating the public about nature in the city. Each year, CRP’s Urban In July, Edson Cabalfin, a Ph.D. candidate and Regional Studies faculty invites qualified in HAUD, presented an excerpt of his dissertation individuals to apply to the honors program and research, “Nation as Spectacle: Politics of Identity complete an honors thesis. Daniel Kim (B.S. in the Architectures of Philippine Pavilions at URS ’10), Fernando Montejo (B.S. URS ’10), International Expositions, 1887–1998,” at the Kerry Quinn (B.S. URS ’10), and Esther Wong international conference “Asian Countries as (B.S. URS ’10) were the 2010 participants. Exhibited at World Expositions: Revisited in a Invitations to the honors program are based Global Historical Perspective,” held at Leiden, The on GPA standards and the completion of several of the major’s required courses. The honors thesis Netherlands. The International Institute for Asian asks the student to investigate a specific research Studies and Leiden University sponsored the conference. Cabalfin also began his appointment question with the support of one faculty adviser as assistant professor in the School of who oversees the project. Architecture and Interior Design at the University The following are snapshots of the honors of Cincinnati in fall 2009. students and their theses: An ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Daniel Kim: “USA’s Influence on the Korean Fellowship has been awarded to Richard Guy, Education System During the U.S. Military a Ph.D. candidate in HAUD. Guy is one of 70 Government in Korea, 1945–1948” selected from a pool of 1,150 applicants to The subordination of the Korean education receive the award this year. He will spend the system under a U.S. military government, and fellowship period writing and conducting research the development of South Korean education at several archives in Europe, working toward a after the World War II liberation from Japanese dissertation on society and space aboard ships of rule are the focus of Kim’s thesis. He aims to the Dutch East India Company. clarify the intentions of U.S. policies for Korean Greg Gyulai (M.Arch. ’13) has recently education, and how these policies affect Korean launched Façade clothing company, a line of education today. graphic T-shirts featuring designs inspired by art, music, and culture. Gyulai started the company Fernando Montejo: “Evolving Concepts after completing a printmaking course as an of ‘Green’: An Analysis of the Environment undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. Dimension of the 21st-Century Olympic Games” Montejo discusses the unfolding of a “green” Gyulai will be releasing new designs in the coming months, and also hopes to expand into other dimension of the Olympic Games, reviewing the policies that have been adopted to ensure that the clothing as well. Andy Linn (B.Arch. ’11) spent the summer Games incorporate environmental protection and sustainable development into their agendas.
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Kerry Quinn: “Linking Retail and Transit Units: A Historical Analysis of Philadelphia’s Market Street East” The goal of Quinn’s thesis is to explain the history and development schemes of Market Street East in Philadelphia, including a discussion of past commercial growth patterns and railroad use in the city, and a detailed analysis of the site’s comprehensive redevelopment that spanned the 30 years from 1954 to 1984.
with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where he worked with five others on the Venice Biennale exhibition project. The team included two other Cornellians: Miriam Roure Parera (B.Arch. ’09) and Lawrence Siu (M.Arch. ’11). This past summer, former visiting fellow and current M.Arch.1 candidate Alison Nash (B.F.A./ B.A. ’98, M.Arch. ’14) worked with Wilka Roig (M.F.A. ’05) and Gabriella D’Angelo, an Ithacabased architectural designer and educator, on a public art project called Plan Against Loneliness. The project consisted of the design and fabrication of a bench, Seat Against Loneliness, a public installation and performance, a lecture about the project, and the publication of a pamphlet to enable the project to be replicated in other cities. The project was funded in part by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County and the Cornell Council for the Arts.AAP
CORNELL WINS 2010 ULI COMPETITION A Cornell team was awarded the Honorable Mention for its submission in the 2010 AWARD Urban Land Institute’s Urban Design Competition. East Village Squares was selected as a top-ten
proposal out of 112 entries nationwide. The team was led by Dan Kelleher (M.R.P. ’10) and included Zachary Boggs (M.L.A. ’10), Maureen Bolton (M.L.A. ’10), Chris Haine (M.S.P. RE ’10), and Chris Koenig (M.R.P. ’10). This year’s challenge was to better integrate a 74-acre site in the East Village neighborhood situated between downtown San Diego and the I-5 corridor. Teams were tasked with opening up connections to the surrounding amenities, creating a catalyst for investment interest and development Esther Wong: “The Last Edge: Two Fights capital, and determining what the market would support. for Preservation and Waterfront Planning in Team entries were on display at a reception in the Big Red Barn in March. The competitors and Hong Kong” faculty advisers from CRP, the Program in Real Estate, Landscape Architecture, and the Johnson Wong examines the background of Hong School gathered to view the submissions. Kong as a colonial port, the course of events and This year, a record number of Master of Regional Planning students participated in the two-week actors involved in the fights for preservation, the competition. In addition to the East Village Squares team listed above, other competitors included wider context of harbor-front planning and design, Andrew Buck (M.R.P. ’11), Kevin Dowd (M.R.P. ’11), Matt Gonser (M.R.P. ’11), Yanni Jin (M.R.P. changes in preservation and planning policies, ’11), Julie Johnstone (M.R.P. ’11), Kyongwha Jung (M.R.P. ’11), Rita Kwong (M.R.P. ’11), Sara and reflections on future developments in the Lepori (M.R.P. ’11), Aki Marceau (M.R.P. ’11), Lee Pouliot (M.L.A. ’10), Sueaee Shin (M.R.P. ’12), postcolonial territory.AAP Jen Swartz (M.R.P. ’11), Josh Yost (M.R.P. ’11), and Xiaowei Zhang (M.R.P. ’11).AAP
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STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN “NETWORKED ART” EVENT Inspired by Maurice Benayoun’s visit to campus during the spring, a group of Cornell students participated in a global, networked exposition in April called the Uncurateable Art Event. Students in Visiting Assistant Professor Renate Ferro’s Relational Art, Media, and Movement class displayed Disembodied Juxtaposition, a conceptual project that incorporated live and streamed video and still imagery to create an intervention with Benayoun’s Art Collider, a platform that allows for the connected formation of time-based art. Benayoun’s aim for the platform is to form a collaborative approach toward media art creation through a system of peer-to-peer or artist-to-artist production. During the opening of the Uncurateable Art Event in Paris, approximately 20 visitors were observed while students
Ilana Cheyfitz (B.F.A. ’10), Yuxiou Du (B.F.A. ’10), Zoe Gutterman (B.F.A. ’12), Andrew Heumann (B.Arch. ’12), Emily McAllister ’11, and Nicholas Martin (B.Arch. ’12) streamed videos, still images, and live feeds into the remote location. The Art Collider enabled the students to analyze data visualizations that provided information about the project’s interactions that were happening in real time. The group in Ithaca was able to share its project and view works being streamed from other locations, including the San Francisco Art Institute; the School of Visual Arts, New York City; Kunstuniversität Linz (Interface Culture Lab), Austria; Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; La fonderie de l’image, France; and the University of California–Berkeley; as well as other remote sites.AAP News09 Winter2010
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