A Community Design Workshop
YOU ARE INVITED...TO RE-INVENT ONE OF THE
MOST SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITIES IN DURHAM
When: September 29 -
30, Oct. 1, 2000
Where: South Square Mall
Who: All who live, work or own property in the Mall Neighborhood
Presented by: Durham Area Designers
To secure the interest and input of those who
will be directly affected by changes at the Mall, The Durham Area Designers (DAD) will
conduct a 3-day community design workshop starting Friday evening, September 29 and
continuing through Sunday October 1.
The events will be held in the Mall, in a
space adjacent to the Hudson & Belk store. DAD and its partners - the City of
Durham and the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at UNC - will bring to the workshop
nationally known experts to share their knowledge and experience working with malls in
similar or worse circumstances.
They, DAD members, and a team of designers and
artists will meet with local business owners, people who work and shop in the South Square
area, and local residents to hear their concerns and ideas on how to take advantage of the
opportunity to change South Square for the better.
Why go to the trouble of organizing a
public workshop?
Because Southwest Durham is changing. The opening of the new South Point Mega Mall will
leave much of South Square Mall empty. The economic demise of almost a million square feet
of commercial space in a key neighborhood of our city could have a long-lasting negative
impact throughout the region. We want to reduce the likelihood of this happening.
To come up with meaningful solutions to these
urban problems we need to:
- Educate ourselves with the help of experts
- Get input from as many locally affected people as possible
- Work together in an open, participatory, brainstorming atmosphere
- Bring our ideas to the attention of both government officials and private developers
Just how do these Workshops work?
They are a genuine collaborative effort
between the public and design professionals to conceive, describe and illustrate - at a
kind of "brainstorming" public session - real concepts and visions for real
urban neighborhoods. Sometimes called "charrettes," their end product is
material you can SEE and READ as the workshop unfolds.
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