Summit 2012 Schedule – The Municipal Art Society of New York

Summit 2012 Schedule – The Municipal Art Society of New York

All of these events sound interesteing, but in particular:

11:50am
Privately Owned Public Spaces:  Let’s Invigorate the Inventory
Presenters: Jerold Kayden, Billie Tsien


New York City’s 1961 Zoning Resolution introduced the concept of Privately Owned Public Space (POPS), granting developers bonus floor area and other zoning concessions in exchange for plazas, arcades, and indoor spaces open to the public at office and residential towers. There are over 520 POPS in the city which, if aggregated, would cover roughly 10 percent of Central Park. Some of the spaces are very good, others have unrealized potential. Harvard professor Jerold Kayden, who wrote the celebrated book Privately Owned Public Space with the NYC Department of City Planning and the MAS, and architect Billie Tsien, who designed the renovation of the David Rubinstein Atrium with her partner Tod Williams on behalf of client Lincoln Center, will explore innovative ideas for making existing spaces better for members of the public. Professor Kayden will also introduce a new citizen-centric web and mobile platform, the product of a partnership between the MAS and Kayden’s Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space organization that will allow the public to explore New York City’s POPS and comment on spaces through creative use of crowdsourcing techniques.


3:40pm
Vibrancy in Neighborhoods: Secret Ingredient? The Arts *
Context: Anita Durst
Keynote: Rocco Landesman
Moderator: Patricia Cruz
Panelists: Nicholas Baume, Karen Brooks Hopkins, Elizabeth Streb

Vibrancy, those unique, often qualitative “know it when you see it” characteristics that shape successful neighborhoods are often at the hands of an arts and cultural endeavor. Whether it be multi-personality cultural hub—with a cluster of institutions—or due to temporary public art in a more permanent creatively placemaking strategy, we’ll look at how place is shaped by the arts.