Architecture and Activist Project on Track

The Architecture and Actvism Class has already made a huge impact at the Center. Early on in the planning meetings, storage came up as major need among participants. Here you see neighbors at the Urban Minsitry Center and students unloading lockers that the class recruited from Raleigh. UMC staff developed plan for the fair use of the lockers and they have been in full use almost since the moment of their arrival.

Other photos show the commuity at work using concrete stain to create a patchwork style mural on the cement ground. The mural not only delineates the boundaries for street soccer, but it creates a grid pattern that can facilitate the yoga class now taking place indoors, and can help divide space up for future art sales and garden markets. The folks sitting on the tires (soon to become a soccerwall-seating bench-planter box multi-faceted structure) are professor Linda Samuels and some of her students.

An open mic is scheduled tentatively from 4-6pm on May 9th to celebrate the completion of the project. You can also go to www.coa.uncc.edu to register to attend the "Structures for Inclusion Conference" where Linda will give a brief presentation on our project this saturday. Besides that, it promises to be a fascinating conference. Check it out and we'll see you there.