Center for Creative Solutions
A week-long, multi-disciplinary design workshop to investigate the potential of a tax-payer owned brown field of Connecticut River-front land in Brattleboro, Vermont. With Michael Singer, Charlie Cannon and Marlboro College Graduate School. Keynote speakers/critics included Damon Rich from the Center for Urban Pedagogy and Bill Drentell from Design Observer/Winterhouse. Workshop participants completed field work, engaged with community stakeholders and created and produced an interactive museum exhibit to share findings and gather more data.
As a Fellow & Design Director I created and maintained the identity for CCS, as well as the collateral materials for the workshop. I lead a multi-disciplinary team (designers, architects, writers, a painter, a socilologist) through the design and production of a museum exhibit. I guided and participated in the process of research, field work, and design iterations.
I contributed to the planning of the workshop from a long and short-term view and collaborated with Charlie and Michael on our list of invited guests.
With Charlie Cannon and Michael Singer, for Marlboro College Graduate School and for the town of Brattleboro, Vermont.
As a Fellow & Design Director I created and maintained the identity for CCS, as well as the collateral materials for the workshop. I lead a multi-disciplinary team (designers, architects, writers, a painter, a socilologist) through the design and production of a museum exhibit. I guided and participated in the process of research, field work, and design iterations.
I contributed to the planning of the workshop from a long and short-term view and collaborated with Charlie and Michael on our list of invited guests.
With Charlie Cannon and Michael Singer, for Marlboro College Graduate School and for the town of Brattleboro, Vermont.
The exhibition provided opportunities for visitors to engage with possible futures for the site.
Everything was produced using letter-size paper and a color laser printer, shown here: program for workshop participants.
Throughout the week, research and resources were organized with a simple half-letter color-coded system.
The first wall in the exhibition provided a guide to the existing site and planned future improvements, shown here is a museum take-away.
Entrance to the exhibit, evidence our printing limitation became a nice sign for “work in progress”.
Strategy sessions with the team were lively and all-encompassing.
The site with garages and Connecticut River waterfront.
The Brattleboro Art Museum contained many of the architectural details and quirks of its former life as a train station depot.
Thank you notes to community members and volunteers were overprinted on local postcards.
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