This is a free event; doors will open at 2:00 p.m.
Join the Dallas Architecture Forum for a free event focused on the planning concepts, design practices, and community outreach efforts that are necessary to create inviting, affordable housing for communities that need to be revitalized and renewed rather than ignored and wasted. These issues will be discussed by four experts in the field of collaborative engagement in helping communities in need of affordable, practical, and appealing housing.
Attendees will have the privilege of hearing four highly regarded practitioners in their fields share insights and lead inspiring discussion on this intriguing topic. Alex Henderson, of Rural Studio in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will share insights from the firm's famed design-build architecture program from Auburn University. Rural Studio is known for its hands-on, live-amongst approach to engaging a community and making life better for its residents. Emilie Taylor Welty of New Orleans currently works at the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design as a Design/Build expert. She will share from her experiences in community outreach creating design solutions through a collaborative model. Brent Brown, of Dallas, founded bcWORKSHOP, a local nonprofit community design studio that works to improve the livability and viability of communities. Each of these experts will share from his or her broad base of experience and also dialogue together in a panel discussion moderated by Bang Dang, Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the College of Architecture Planning and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington.