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This is Newark

This Is Newark
Gateway Urban Design


THIS IS NEWARK - PUBLIC CONVERSATION
 
The City of Newark Division of Planning & Community Development
and
The Rutgers University Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
 
invite you to
 
THIS IS A NEWARK – SYMBOLS FOR A CITY
A public conversation about urban design and identity


Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 6–9 pm (doors open 5:30 pm)
 
Newark Museum
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 596-6550
 
Free and open to the public
 
Museum parking $7
On street parking available
Public transit via Broad Street Station and light rail


SEE presentations of ideas for using public art and design to symbolize Newark and welcome people to our city.
 
HEAR reactions from panelists including:

   Dr. Clement Price
   Richard Cammarieri
   Robert Curvin
   Victor Davson
   Margaret Crawford
   Ade Sedita
   Gladys Grauer
   Gordon Kipping
   Tritonic
   & more
 
SHARE your ideas.  BUILD the discussion around Newark’s identity and urban landscape.


Featured designers and artists:

Ade Tugbiyele Sedita
Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects
All of the Above
Andrew Maishman
Anker West and Ada Caro
Brian McGrath and Victoria Marshall
C+C Architecture with Charlee Swanson and Kati Vilim
Christian Prasch, Inbar Kishoni, Nicholas Giuliano, Eliot Maltby
Damon Rich
Dana Koenitzer, Lisa Smith, Troy Therrien, Sarah Williams
Gladys Grauer / Black Woman in Visual Perspective
Glenn Smith Studio
G Tects
HTDSTUDIO DESIGNOFFICE
Interboro
John Kudos, Preeti Sodhi, Mabel Wilson
Ken Smith Landscape Architect
Marielly Casanova, Jake Dorler, KJ Kim, Ashley Villapaz, and Claire Weisz
Matt Gosser
Michael Sorkin Studio / Terreform
M|RUIZ design
Newwork and City Without Walls
Otis Berkin, Natalia Roumelioti, Erin Shaefer, David Smiley, Manuel Miranda
Pentagram Architects
Peter Cocoziello, Chris Gee, Jacob Gerson, and Ala Rustom
pod design + media
Rickenbacker + Leung
SCAPE & MTWTF
SL Prevost Design
Tritonic
WXY architecture + urban design


Project Team:

Toni L. Griffin, City of Newark Director of Community Development
Damon Rich, City of Newark Urban Designer: Project Director
Glen Cummings, MTWTF: Exhibition Front Matter Graphic Designer
Janette Kim, Urban Landscape Lab: Exhibition Front Matter Co-Editor
Grace Bogdan, Exhibition Coordinator

Thank you:

Stefan Pryor, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development
Victor Davson and Edwin Ramoran, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art
Clement Price and Mark Krasovic, Rutgers University Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
Urban Landscape Lab, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
New Jersey School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Linwood J. Oglesby, Newark Arts Council