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{"title":"Entering Through the Closet","authors":"Seantel Trombly","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.9","url":null,"abstract":"Architecture has made the socially normative body the primary audience for cities with a growingly diverse population. With this population evolving into one with an expansive idea of gender, the needs of our cities are beginning to challenge the historically rigid functions of spaceand spatial performance. Entering Through the Closet is adesign manifesto exploring the future of trans-embodimentthat extends beyond the body of the trans-gendered or thediscourse of gender and gender non-conformists, and intothat of architecture. Due to the constraints of economics and accessibility, the affordability of space becomes like thatof the body given to one at birth, an assignment. Both theform of the domestic home and the form of the body holdidentities that apply various restrictions and privileges to the self, occupying. The trans approach to the body is one challenging these restrictions through a deconstruction ofthe physical self. Entering Through the Closet identifies anarchitectural potential, methodology, and way of thought that requires one to deconstruct the historic identity of theold to provide habitability for the new, reconstructing architecture and architectural thought as we do ourselves.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122858132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critically Engaged Civic learning: Graphic Design as a Bridge Between the Classroom and the Local Community","authors":"C. Bernasconi","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.41","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses outcomes from a collaborative project between the School of Architecture and Community Development at Detroit Mercy and the LIVE6 Alliance, a Detroit non-profit organization focusing on neighborhood revitalization via placemaking and engagement with small businesses. A graduate graphic design course was offered in Winter 2020, and provided an opportunity for architecture students to interact with local community members and business owners to brainstorm ideas about identity, place, and economic development. Through an iterative and open-ended process revolving around frequent conversations and concept proposals, students learned to interpret key identity traits of local businesses, to acknowledge the values they bring to the urban corridor, and applied graphic design knowledge built in the classroom to develop alternative branding design ideas. The pedagogical approach of the course aligns with the frameworks of Critically Engaged Civic Learning (Vincent et al. 2021) and Critical Service learning (Mitchell 2008). Embracing these frameworks in the course helped students understand perspectives of community partners and become more aware of their design agency as co-creators. Forms of co-production and co-authorship were fostered to decolonize the design process, building on authentic relationships and a deeper understanding of branding as a defining way of expressing values of individuals, communities and places. At the urban scale, the loosely coordinated collective work of all teams along the corridor, spurred students to understand graphic design as an urban activator and as an element of placemaking at the scale of the neighborhood. The project was interrupted during online and hybrid learning. This hiatus provided time to reflect on lessons learned, including learning outcomes for students and community perceptions, and directions for future collaborations with LIVE6 Alliance towards a student learning that is centered around the search for a co-constructed design agency.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125050456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making the Side Yard House; A Passive Mass Housing Model","authors":"Craig S. Griffen","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.16","url":null,"abstract":"We currently face a major housing crisis, yet housing design and construction has barely responded. Approximately 98%of single-family house construction is still developer driven and the vast majority are energy inefficient, unsustainable to build and unaffordable by missing-middle home buyers who cannot afford skyrocketing real estate prices.¹ To address climate change and social/economic disparities, the Side Yard House was developed as a new proposal for mass detached housing that, largely through a reproportioning of the house to the land, can produce a more Passive, Adaptable, Modular, Resilient and Affordable home that incorporates qualities of both urban and suburban environments.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123449012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prelude to International Style: The 1927 Machine-Age Exposition","authors":"K. Fan","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.31","url":null,"abstract":"In the mid to late-1920s, European Modernist designs began to appear in New York galleries. These appearances started rather sporadically, but soon evolved into a sensation and were joined by American indigenous Modernist works. Among these displays, the Machine-Age Exposition of 1927 stood out with its wide coverage of Modernist exhibits and a strong theme. Placing the Machine-Age Exposition in historical perspective, this study traces the origins of the Machine-Age Exposition, examines the Modernist exhibits and their accompanying rhetoric, and reviews the contemporary responses of the show. The study also investigates the limitations of the event, as well as the constituents that established the Machine-Age Exposition as the most important event in disseminating Modernism in America in the pre-International Style era.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125368915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wright’s Vision For The Capitals: Baghdad and Phoenix","authors":"Hariwan N. Zebari","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.29","url":null,"abstract":"In 1957, Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design the Opera House for Baghdad as part of his Master Plan for the capital of Iraq. The same year, he proposed a design statement- an “Oasis” for Arizona State Capital in Phoenix, Arizona. Although both buildings were never realized, they continue to inspire their respective city. This study compares the two buildings as a case study to disclose the differences and unique similarities of Wright’s modern design approach to eastern culture compared to the western context.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"10482 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131772281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Communal Provisioning and Community Abundance: Operationalizing Jewish Concepts of Gleaning through Design","authors":"Caryn Brause, Madison Dehaven","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.61","url":null,"abstract":"Each year, more than 10% of the U.S. population experiences food insecurity.1 Historically, many faith-based organizations have focused on alleviating hunger as an expression of their values. As these organizations are some of the largest non- governmental landowners in the world,2 some of their less productive land holdings could be repurposed to directly address food justice. In Jewish practice, Biblical literature outlines laws providing agricultural support in the form of fallen grain and fruit available for post-harvest gleaning.3 Two associated projects, Abundance Farm and the Food Security and Sustainability Hub, provide design examples that address food justice by operationalizing Jewish traditions of the commons.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129692886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wiigwaas: Building with Birch in the Great Lakes","authors":"C. Nakarado","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.25","url":null,"abstract":"Our exploitative models of building and design arise from misconceptions about the relationship between energy and objects. The current emphasis on efficiency, performance, and life cycle assessment are not adequate remedies for the problem. Through an analysis of Anishinaabe material harvesting techniques and building technologies, this paper contends that the lighter methods of low-carbon construction practiced in the Great Lakes region for millennia are ideal alternatives to this flawed conceptualization, because they are clear and direct in their embodiment of energy and material. It includes careful study of material life cycles of traditional birchbark precedents designed to be light and portable, to be assembled quickly, and to decompose gracefully, like wiigwaasi-jiimaanan (canoes), waaginogaan (domed lodges), and makakoon (bark vessels). These models for making hold the potential to redirect prevailing conversations among architects and designers about sustainability, transition, and resilience in ways that are more ecologically responsible and better recognize and value indigenous cultures and material practices.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116546625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community Resilience Hubs: Everyday and Emergency Infrastructure in Detroit’s Neighborhoods","authors":"Ceara O'Leary","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.60","url":null,"abstract":"In Detroit, community hubs are emerging as essential sites for a myriad of services contributing to both short term disaster response and long term community resilience. Community hubs have long been spaces of convening, information sharing and other elements of social infrastructure for all ages. Increasingly, hubs are intentional spaces for cultural production and community cohesion, contributing to strong neighborhood networks, as well as sites for disaster response, including heating and cooling in cases of emergency and provision of health supplies and food. This paper documents an ongoing research-based professional project focusing on existing community resilience hubs in two Detroit neighborhoods that meet everyday community needs and offer opportunities for a more robust collective network that integrates emergency preparedness and building performance to enable function in times of crisis. This work includes study of hubs in other cities and considers the link between cultural and climate resilience and how community hubs are spaces for both. This project is part of a larger collaborative planning process that centers resilience and health equity outcomes, focusing on access to resources in Detroit neighborhoods of varying density. This includes visions for current and future hubs that contribute to local definitions of resiliency.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121261786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Encounters in a Postcolonial Frame: Mnemotechnics and Mimicry in Architectural Productions","authors":"Gundula Proksch","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.35","url":null,"abstract":"Chicago’s history and urban development have been connected to its role as a food hub and driver of technological innovations in the food industry. In the 1970s, the city started redefining its relation to agriculture by integrating various forms of urban agriculture. Today, the city is known for its strong network of community gardens, educational farms, and job training programs. Over the last decade, the city has also attracted various entrepreneurial controlled environment production facilities, such as hydroponic greenhouses, rooftop greenhouses, and vertical indoor farms using innovative growing methods and economic models. Other urban farms deploy hybrid models that combine a robust social agenda with emerging, economically-driven food production systems. These multi- layer urban agriculture operations with strong community and commercial objectives contribute to community empowerment and urban revitalization. This comparative analysis concludes a three-part mixed- method investigation of Chicago’s foodshed and urban agriculture networks, which move in scale from the Metropolitan region, City of Chicago, and organizational networks to this smallest scale of specific physical locations and architectural spaces. The investigation relies on publicly available datasets and online data collected by the author. It analyzes urban agricultural networks through (1) GIS-based mapping; (2) a review of organizational structures; and (3) an analysis of critical building projects, with a focus on the award-winning Farm on Ogden in the North Lawndale neighborhood and The Plant in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. This analysis of pioneering projects may inspire other community-minded projects and cities to establish innovative pathways. The identified novel approaches will help legislators, community leaders, planners, and architects to provide for growing urban populations, create common spaces, develop frameworks to support regionally sustainable food production, promote social equity, and improve the well-being of historically marginalized communities.","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125061990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Encounters in a Postcolonial Frame: Mnemotechnics and Mimicry in Architectural Productions","authors":"Soumya Dasgupta","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.111.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.34","url":null,"abstract":"My paper provides a theoretically situated framing of the global deployment of digital design tools vis-à-vis globalization of architectural productions in the context of rapidly transforming urban India in the 21st century. Following the economic liberalization of 1991, globalized architectural typologies such as shopping malls, residential enclaves, luxury hotels, and Information Technology (IT) hubs mushroomed throughout India’s urban spaces, changing its material and visual fabric.1 The digital revolution played a crucial role in this transformation, both through the systemic processes of global informatization and through the relatively less interrogated paradigmatic shift within architectural production techniques from analog to digital modalities.2 In the last two decades, emerging scholarship on Global South’s particular urbanities focused on the symptoms of these co-proliferating socio-spatial transformations, one emerging from the studies on the effects of neoliberalism and the second on informatization. Reacting to the shifting terrains of the architectural industry, design scholarship focused on the exigencies of architects acquiring advanced digital skill sets to meet market demands of efficiency, aptly captured as “innovate or perish.”3 Historians and urban scholars have extensively deliberated on the chronologies of India’s evolving IT landscape from the 1950s to the turn of the millennium and the digitization of urban governance and citizenship in the last decade.4,5 However, little theoretical deliberation exists to date on what software does to design in a postcolonial setting. Addressing this gap, I problematize the supposedly neutral front of digital design packages and argue that they reproduce the geo-architectural surroundings of their origins and aid in advancing globalized norms and techniques that homogenize architectural modus operandi. In lieu of focussing on the substantive dimensionalities of urban India’s architectural transformations with its specificities, I refer to ‘urban India’ as a site of a critical inquiry.6 To this end, I weave together theoretical concepts of global mnemotechnical systems and mimicry from the works of Bernard Stiegler and Homi Bhabha that can help explicate the encounter of the global deployment of architectural software as the industry standard in the arena of Global South’s architectural productions.7,8","PeriodicalId":243862,"journal":{"name":"In Commons","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125884411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}