Storefront:Syracuse Booklet

8/3/2019 Storefront:Syracuse Booklet

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THE FRONTABANDONED STOREFRONT RENOVATION URBAN REDEVELOPMENT GRASSROOTS DESIGN

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Almost nothing influences the quality ofour lives more than the design of ourcities. Syracuse and many other citiesshare a common problem of vacancyand disinvestment. These spaces,primarily storefronts, are the figurativeand literal face of the city.

Our purpose is to turn an abandonedstorefront, a source of blight andnegativity, into a vibrant and activespace that is home to progressivethinking and action for the future ofDowntown Syracuse. In addition,we hope that this investment andpositive activity will attract a longterm occupant for the space, allowingStorefront:Syracuse to repeat

this process in vacant storefrontsthroughout the neighborhood.

Located in historic Hanover SquareStorefront:Syracuse is operatingout of a decades vacant storefrontin the State Tower building. Theprojects objectives are to overcomedisinvestment and host programmingthat reaches out to people fromcommunities which usually havenothing to do with architecture or urbanrevitalization in order to involve them inthese processes. Once completed theStorefront will be a public place for acity wide conversation about the futureof our City.

STOREFRONT:SYRACUSE

DESIGN LAB & PUBLIC SPACE217 E GENESEE STREET SYRACUSE NY

BMW GUGGENHEIM LABNEW YORK NY

The BMW Guggenheim Lab is amobile laboratory traveling to ninemajor cities worldwide over six years.Led by international, interdisciplinaryteams of emerging talents in theareas of urbanism, architecture,art, design, science, technology,education, and sustainability, the Labaddresses issues of contemporaryurban life through programs and publicdiscourse. Its goal is the explorationof new ideas, experimentation, andultimately the creation of forward-thinking solutions for city life.

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STUDIO-X | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYNEW YORK NY

GSAPPs Studio-X New York wasestablished in New York in summer2008 in a lower Manhattan industrialbuilding in a neighborhood largelyoccupied by creative industries. Ithas quickly become a major node ofactivity in the city. During the day,an ever-changing array of peoplework in collaborative teams onexhibitions, reports, books, magazines,competitions, seminars, workshops,etc. In the evening there is a greatdensity of events, with lectures,debates, launches, performances, andexhibition openings.


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STOREFRONT:SYRACUSE

Storefront:Syracuse is a centerfor design, a forum for publicengagement, and a space to imagineand realize the citys latent potentials.It is a place to connect designers andthe populations they design for throughthe transformation and occupation ofa vacant storefront. Revitalizing thestorefront through construction andprogramming is not only important forimproving the beauty, marketability,and pride in the neighborhood but itwill also increase residents confidenceand inspiration to complete similarprojects on their own.

We want to actively engage newgroups of people, or new communitiesentirely, to become part of thepublic which is invoked when newdevelopment programs, economicschemes, or legislation related tothe growth and future of our City isdeveloped. Through education about

the vital importance design and thebuilt environment play in citizens lives,we hope our project results, even if insome small way, in a better educatedand engaged citizenry.

The Storefront is an urban laboratoryfor the City of Syracuse to engagein conversation and debate with oneanother and with those in a positionto make meaningful change regardingthe issues that construct the physicaland social spaces of the city. TheStorefronts programming will include aseries of exhibitions, lectures, forumsfor outreach, roundtable workshops,design-build projects, a design libraryand social events. Beginning onNovember 17, 2011 the Storefront willhost an exhibition on the history andfuture of master planning in Syracuse,publicly exhibiting for the first time allof the past and present visions forSyracuse and their effects on the city.

THE HISTORY & FUTURE OF MASTER PLANNING IN SYRACUSEEXHIBITION . November 17, 2011

One goal is to educate and advocate for the many ways that architecture anddesign can improve peoples quality of life. In this project we seek to inform thecommunity-at-large about issues such as masterplanning and neighborhoodplanning, both past and present. We also seek to re-establish the communitysdignity and agency in the face of these kinds of projects.

CHANGE YOUR CITY IN 72 HOURSCOLLABORATIVE DESIGN CHARETTE . JANUARY 20, 2011

We are developing a weekend long design build project in which students andcommunity members will work together to transform small portions of the city inone weekend.

THE ARCHITECTS WORK . ESTUIDO TEDDY CRUZEXHIBITION & PUBLIC LECTURE & DESIGN-BUILD CHARETTE . March 15, 2011

Working with the international architect Teddy Cruz and a group ofinterdisciplinary design students we are co-hosting an exhibition, public lecture,and series of engagement projects which re-engage marganilized communitieswith the political and eocnomic processes of the city.


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