Episodes
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Creative Placemaking in Alaska
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Hear how the Anchorage Museum in Alaska has partnered with the Northern Norway Art Museum to address some of the challenges that are unique to Northern places. The museum is exploring equitable community solutions through its new Solutions for Energy and Equitable Design Lab (SEED Lab). This episode is a conversation with Julie Decker, Director and CEO of the museum and Bodil Kjelstrup, who is serving as curator of the SEED Lab. Kjelstrup is from the Northern Norway Art Museum, and the two met at a conference on the arts in the circumpolar north several years ago. Find out how the SEED Lab is engaging the creativity of the community to address some of its most pressing challenges. This conversation hits on climate change, equity in indigenous communities, do-it-yourself culture and shifting narratives to empower local communities. The two museum officials co-taught a breakout session at the 2019 Pacific Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit.
Host: Andrea Orlando lives, records, and writes from her home in New Jersey. Contact her at andrea.orlando.530@gmail.com
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Mapping the Treasures of Little Tokyo, LA
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Dancing in a big circle? Show and tell? Drinking cocktails made from the fruit of an old tree? Flower arranging? These may not be the activities that one associates with anti-displacement community organizing, but they play a central role in fight to preserve Little Tokyo, LA, one of three remaining historic Japantowns in the nation. This episode is a conversation with Scott Oshima of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center. The JACCC is involved in the campaign to preserve the historic neighborhood. We chatted with them at the 2019 Pacific Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in LA in June where they taught two breakout sessions and led a field workshop into Little Tokyo with Summit participants. Although this conversation is about a specific neighborhood we go deep on why arts and culture remind community activists what they are fighting for in the first place. They also discuss some of the tactical urbanist and cultural asset mapping strategies they use to gather data and celebrate small wins in the long, hard work of reaching towards a vision several years into the future.
Host: Andrea Orlando lives, records, and writes from her home in New Jersey. Contact her at andrea.orlando.530@gmail.com