The charrettes were a huge success! Over six hours and thanks to the efforts of over 90 participants, our creative teams each developed an idea for how Pittsburgh should pop-up in the designated cities. Read about each idea above…
pop Pittsburgh up
Call for ideas
Help cityLAB to pop Pittsburgh up in other cities. Join us for a one-day charrette at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture. Designers, actors, architects and artists will work in teams to design a series of Pop Up ideas to describe Pittsburgh.
Not sure what a Pop Up is? Come and find out at 10 am. Creative and itching to design? Stay on and we’ll assign you to a creative team. Curious and got a point of view? Come to the presentations at 2:30 pm and join in the critique. Questions? Email cityLAB. We’ll be working in the College of Fine Arts Building at CMU, Room 214.
We need you!
the positive…
the negative…
focus group participants
Thank you to everyone who participated in the focus groups. From that extremely productive session we were able to come up with two comprehensive lists;
1. The positive; things that might draw people to Pittsburgh
2. The negative; things that need to be worked on
This information will form the basis of our next event; intensive charrettes in which creative teams of architects, urban planners, Pittsburgh citizens, artists and policy makers will decide what, where and how Pittsburgh will Pop-Up across the U.S…
Focus group participants (a mixture of lifetime Pittsburghers, long term residents and newcomers); Heather Estes, Gillian Goldberg, Jonathan Greene, Ryan Hopkins, Sandhya Krishnan, Liza Langer, Mykia Long, Dutch MacDonald, Maxine Markfield, Adam Nelson, Kathy Oliver, Todd R. Owens, Hilary Robinson & Zach Morris.
focus group invitation
What is it about Pittsburgh that will attract people to move here? Which aspects of our city should we aim to “Pop-Up” around the nation? The bridges? The beer?? Our 15,000 black bears??? Please join us for an information gathering session that will start the ball rolling for our first cityLAB experiment – pop pittsburgh up.
The session will be moderated by Nathan Martin of Deeplocal and held at their offices at 6101 Penn Avenue, Suite 602. See you there!