Architecture and Allied Arts Blog

I Am Spartacus gets down at the Oak Street Speakeasy, August 15th, 2008, in Eugene, Oregon. The lead singer on these selections is John Lysaker, and the accompanying musicians are Steve Brence, Jeff Stolle, John Fenn and Ben Saunders. Professor Lysaker is the Philosophy dept head at the University of Oregon (TK’s boss) and the others are his colleagues and former students at the U in the Business, Folklore and English depts.

In this issue, Tina Rinaldi shares her experiences and reflects on serving as a novice chair for a community cultural planning committee. Drawing on her time on this advisory committee, Rinaldi provides an overview of the challenges and successes for citizen-led cultural review. What does it mean for the arts and culture professional to work in a forum with a high level of community participation? What are the roles of each stakeholder? Rinaldi addresses these and other questions of this dynamic and exigent forum for municipal cultural engagement.

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Katie Shumm - a graduate of the UO Arts and Administration Program - has had her research published by the Community Arts Network.  She also presented this research at the National Community Art Convening in Baltimore, which is held annually by the Maryland Institute College of Art.

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The University of Oregon’s commitment to sustainability and environmental issues earned the state’s flagship institution the highest possible honors from The Princeton Review, which today released its inaugural “Green Honor Roll.”

Princeton Review

University of Oregon News

What will be presented at the Olympics opening ceremony has been kept under wraps in China, but U.S. scholars and students revealed that folk art will be performed in the most-looked-forward-to event ever in that country.

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In an effort to investigate design and push creative methodologies Professor Salter and his students hacked existing dollar store items, designing, sketching and building a variety of personal and home goods.

Visit the Dollar Store Hack site

Also see:

• Unvorhergesehen Blog
  
• superforest: Dollar Store Hacks!
  
• please sir: Stylin’ at the Dollar Store
  
• Hacking stuff << the qubikal

President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Dean Frances Bronet. In a brief conversation, President Clinton, University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer and Dean Frances Bronet discussed Clinton’s Foundation which has a component on Climate Initiatives. They talked about potential partnerships around carbon neutral building moments before President Clinton spoke to a crowd of 3000 at the University of Oregon on May 12, 2008.

As part of the Industrial Designers Society of America conference that took place in Portland April 25-27, the School of Architecture and Allied Art’s new Product Design Program hosted a design charrette in the new White Stag building. Organized in part by adjunct professor Zara Logue, the charrette challenged designers to think about ways cars and bikes can coexist in urban environments. The enthusiastic presenter, Greg Raisman of Portland’s Office of Transportation, gave the group some background on Portland’s growing bicycle community and the challenges of transportation design that suits both cars and bikes before turning them loose to design better street bike parking areas and traffic calming zones. Students, design professionals, and guests from PDOT, SCRAP, and BikePortland.org started sketching and after 30 minutes there was a lively review of the design proposals.

Everything from better speed bumps to beautified bike racks were proposed and Raisman helped the designers understand some of the different financial and physical constraints faced by the city. Clearly, this is a subject that deserves more design attention and the Product Design program looks forward to partnering with Portland’s Department of Transportation on future projects that could be implemented in several of Portland’s design districts.

DailyServing, an international forum for the exposure of contemporary art, interviewed Michael Salter about past projects and his solo show at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City.

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The Keystone Cafe is currently featuring artwork by Sophie Navarro. The artwork is a collection of acrylic paintings and pen & ink illustrations. The artwork will be displayed from April 25th - June 1st, 2008. Sophie Navarro enjoys creating a series of paintings, comic strips and animations. She graduated from the University of Oregon in 2003 with a B.F.A in Multimedia Design. Many of her designs are inspired by the mundane world or whatever may be lurking in her subconscious. She enjoys modern fashion, bright colors and eclectic cafes. The Keystone Cafe is open between 7 A.M. - 3 P.M everyday. They are located on the corner 5th and Lawrence. They serve excellent food.