Lorain Avenue Public Meeting

What will make Lorain Avenue a safe pleasant place for all road users, boost local business and get more people on bikes? PROTECTED BIKE LANES, the studies prove it!

Tonight, come tell city leaders and planners that you want the new Lorain Avenue Streetscape plan to include dedicated facilities for people on bikes. Here are the meeting details:

When: Tuesday, May 28th at 6:30pm (That is TONIGHT)
Where: St. Ignatius High School - Rade Dining Hall (1911 West 30th St.)

The future of bikes on Lorain Avenue depends on tonight, come make your voice heard.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Marika Shioiri-Clark Lecture @ CUDC: 2013.05.31

Marika Shiroiri Clark Lecture

Dignifying Design

Friday, May 31st, 2013

Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative

1309 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio

via AIA Announcements:

Marika is principal of SOSHL Studio, a firm dedicated to creating social impact through architecture and design, based in Cleveland, Ohio. From 2007 to 2010, Marika was Co-Founder and Managing Director of MASS Design Group, an architectural nonprofit designing well-built environments that aid in the reduction of global poverty. Marika was a lead designer on the Butaro Hospital project in northern Rwanda in collaboration with Partners in Health, the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, and the Rwandan Ministry of Health, and lived on-site in 2008 developing the designs and overseeing construction.

Marika has received several awards for her work in reframing architects as global change agents. She was an invited Ideas Scholar at the Aspen Institute in 2009, and received a US National Commission for UNESCO Traveling Fellowship in 2008. Marika received her BA in Urban Studies from Brown University, and her Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where her graduate thesis under advisors Jacques Herzog and Pierre DeMeuron focused on gendered public spaces in Cairo, Egypt. In 2011 she served in the first class of global residents at IDEO.org.

and via CUDC calendar of events:

Marika Shioiri-Clark, principal of SOSHL Studio, will speak at the CUDC on “Dignifying Design” as part of AIA Cleveland’s 2013 Emerging Practitioner Lecture Series. Based in Cleveland, SOSHL Studio is dedicated to creating social impact through architecture and design. In response to Denise Scott Brown’s comments on her exclusion from the Pritzker Prize, Marika recently co-authored a CNN.com article on the continuing discrimination of women in architecture.

RSVP on the Facebook event page here: FaceSpace event

The Emerging Practitioner Lecture Series is organized by AIA Cleveland’s Associates Committee in partnership with Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. Events are free and open to the public.

Questions can be directed to: angela.jayjack@gmail.com