Richland Source
1 November 2019
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Scope of Response: City
Hilliard, Ohio, United States
Involving a community can bring value to public art. Following protracted discussions, the Hilliard Public Arts Commission succeeded in drawing up guidelines with the approval of the city as well as securing a small portion of public works’ funding toward public art. The new Arts Commission partners with other local institutions, like the Hilliard Civic and Cultural Arts Center, making public art projects an active part of city planning.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/aug/03/pop-up-designs-architecture-london?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Rowan Moore
The Guardian
3 August 2013
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Pop-ups, temporary constructions intended to enliven public places, can often be used as temporary structures and events as marketing tools, and as camouflage for their larger and less charming permanent developments. But young architects in London, their talent and energy outrunning their employment opportunities, initiate, design and build pop-ups as glimpses of what a better city – more open, more social, more pleasurable, more surprising – might be
http://nextcity.org/features/view/how-one-weekend-in-dallas-sparked-a-movement-for-urban-change?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Mike Lydon
Next City
20 April 2015
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A Dallas urban neighborhood was dilapidated with abandoned storefronts and offered no vitality for pedestrians. A group of artists and community members created Build a Better Block, in which local artisans and small businesses took over a vacant block and transformed it for a limited time to encourage the ingredients for more permanent urban renewal.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/how-seattle-made-dark-alleys-safer-by-throwing-parties-20150826?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Araz Hachadourian
Yes! Magazine
26 August 2015
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Alleys in Seattle were once places of illicit, illegal, and unsanitary activity. The International Sustainability Institute in Seattle began organizing music and art events to bring in people, which, in turn, cleaned-up the crime and garbage. As an urban development strategy, adjacent vacant storefronts re-opened for business and beautification could be seen in new gardens.
https://medium.com/bright/how-seattle-got-its-arts-groove-back-883392ada1de?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Robyn Jordan
Bright Magazine
29 June 2015
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Arts education programs in the United States are subjected to cutting for maintaining tight school budgets. Technology sectors in Seattle seek professionals who have been trained in problem solving skills and innovative idea generation. In response, Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture collaborate to promote equity in students’ access to the arts.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/how-to-build-a-better-neighborhood?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
18 June 2014
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The Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas suffered from recession-closed businesses and crime. Then community members used placemaking, in which people shaped their own environment to improve the quality of life, and the concept of Build a Better Block, which was a pop-up event showcasing art, food, music, and local faire. The idea gives citizens a fresh look at the possibilities through which to transform the space in which they live, and it has attracted attention across the country and around the world.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/a-new-way-to-commemorate-atrocity?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Tanya Paperny
Pacific Standard
14 April 2015
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Memorials are being created at rapid rates these days, but they seem to lack a long-term effect on the public. The Chicago Torture Justice Memorials project seeks to change this pattern by putting out an international call for memorial proposals, wanting a variety in visions and a collective memorial, in order to remember the torture of black detainees and racialized police misconduct.
https://whyy.org/articles/ideas-worth-stealing-public-art-to-revive-a-community?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Eleanor Klibanoff
WHYY
24 August 2016
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Urban decay has left a "physical legacy" of past economic hardships in cities. Many cities across the world are now implementing programs that promote public art that rebuilds and reimagines neighborhoods.
http://archive.citiscope.org/story/2017/how-declining-german-city-reviving-itself-bottom?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Simone D'Antonio
Citiscope
30 June 2017
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Oberhausen is long past its heyday and its railway station exemplifies this, its run down and filled with empty spaces. However, now the space is being developed into a cultural area as well as one for art and innovation, while also offering work opportunities to refugees to help with the renewal project.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-07/guatemalan-women-transform-their-town-one-brushstroke-time?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Sara Schonhardt
Public Radio International (PRI)
7 February 2018
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In Guatemala, women are challenging traditional gender norms by playing a growing leadership role in their communities. Specifically, they are leading an initiative to paint local homes with patterns from indigenous weaving traditions. Not only are they making the towns more beautiful, but they are also demonstrating to young girls that women can do the same jobs that men can do.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/two-theaters-one-new-north-shore?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Sophia Paliza-Carre
WNYC
11 April 2017
Multi-Media / 5-15 Minutes
To help develop the arts scene and also increase economic development in the North Shore area of Staten Island, one family formed a non-profit organization to renovate the St. George Theatre and build it up as a revitalized performing arts space. Since 2004 when the theatre was reopened, the area has seen economic growth, and data supports the idea that cities with arts and cultural resources make for healthier and happier communities.
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