Urban Planning

11/17 — 11/18 Concept Evaluation & Iteration

With two new concepts to explore, we set up a meeting with Professor John Wallace…

11/11–11/14 Concept Evaluation

Interview with Jennifer Salmans (11/11)

Though more provocations than fully developed concepts, we took our storyboards to community experts to evaluate our ideas against the realities of existing communities. Our first…

11/6–11/9 Research Synthesis + Concept Brainstorm

Insights, Principles + Initial Concepts

After conducting 4 expert interviews (from designers to urban hackers, local residents to community activists), attending 2 events and conducting a day…

11/1–11/4 Exploring Urban Interaction— Frances Carter and Dan Lockton

As we continued our exploration of opportunities to bring vibrancy to unused spaces within communities, we turned to Frances Carter and Dan Lockton, both designer activists using design process and artifacts to…

10/28–10/31 Exploring Community

Exploring success, failure and opportunity in community development and revitalization around Pittsburgh

10/27 Exploring Opportunities

In an effort to better understand the opportunity areas in and around Pittsburgh, we’ve set up a number of expert interviews/information gathering sessions over the next week.