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Transformations: Leadership for the Public Realm
The Kansas City Design Center is pleased to announce our 2006 lecture series, Transformations: Leadership for the Public Realm.
In 2004 and 2005, several KCDC lectures and leadership forums touched on the importance of effective leadership in transforming the public realm. Our 2006 series brings to Kansas City four individuals who have played a direct and significant role in devising and implementing civic agendas for good urban design and stewardship of the public realm in their respective cities.
Presenters
Kathleen Coakley Barrie is founder of Cleveland Public Art, and most recently served as vice president of exhibition development for The Malrite Company, sponsors of the acclaimed International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Through her 15 years of visionary leadership, Cleveland Public Art has become a highly influential force in the aesthetic development of public space in Cleveland, as well as a key voice in the debate about Cleveland’s future as a city space. Tuesday, February 7, 2006.
Mark Robbins is Dean of the Syracuse University School of Architecture and former director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts. At the NEA, he pioneered a major grantmaking initiative called New Public Works, which nurtured innovative design competitions that have transformed mundane infrastructure into extraordinary and distinctive elements of the public realm. Since becoming Dean, he has played a central role in efforts to develop a catalytic university presence in downtown Syracuse. Thursday, March 9, 2006.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, and was the guiding force behind creation of the Central Park Conservancy, which restored Frederick Law Olmsted’s design legacy to America’s premier urban park. She also founded the Cityscape Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to assisting citizens and public officials in the improvement of public places, and was founding director of Garden History and Landscape Studies at the Bard Graduate Center. Wednesday, April 5, 2006.
Robert D. Yaro is president of the New York Regional Plan Association, America’s oldest and most respected independent metropolitan research and advocacy group. He also chairs The Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, a broad-based coalition of civic groups formed to guide redevelopment in Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. He is currently practice professor in city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Tuesday, May 16, 2006.
This series is made possible by the generous financial support of the Francis Family Foundation, Bank Midwest and the William T. Kemper Foundation (Commerce Bank, Trustee).