Please join us at the CUDC on May 11, 2018 at 6:00 PM for Katherine Darnstadt's talk, "Tactical Leverage".Katherine Darnstadt is the founder of Latent Design, a progressive architecture and urbanism firm leveraging civic innovation and social impact to design more equitable spaces and systems. Since founding her practice in 2010, Katherine and her firm have prototyped new urban design systems to advance urban agriculture, support small business, created spaces for youth makers, advanced building innovation, and created public space frameworks. She and the firm have been published, exhibited and featured widely, most notably at the International Venice Architecture Biennial, Architizer A+ Awards, Chicago Ideas Week, NPR, American Institute of Architects Young Architects Honor Award winner and Crain’s Chicago 40 Under 40. She currently teaches at Northwestern University and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.AIA CES credits have been applied for, based in the following learning objectives:
- How to regarding innovative small scale development, design and construction
- Real estate risk management and funding
- Community engagement and public policy
- Design detailing
- Practical resiliency strategies
- Urban design systems thinking / Human centered design
- Community engagement and public policy
Come early at 5:30 PM for a reception with light refreshments featuring the work from the graduate students in Kent State University's Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture Programs exhibited in the CUDC gallery. This lecture is co-sponsored with AIA Cleveland. Please RSVP HERE. Katherine Darnstadt"Tactical Leverage"5:30 PM- Reception in the gallery6:00 PM- LectureCleveland Urban Design Collaborative1309 Euclid Ave., Suite 200Cleveland, OH 44115