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I’ll be trying to make this. I just found out at the ol’ ten year reunion that one of my classmates was one of the many people involved in this exhibition. The actual exhibit is at Form + Content (210 2nd St. N., Minneapolis, MN 55401) until September the fifth.

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Presentations and discussions on creatively unbundling the housing crisis.

In recent years, the housing crisis has transformed once vibrant neighborhoods into vacant landscapes of foreclosure and collapse. Much attention has been given to the financial causes of the crisis but few projects have gone beyond that, until now.

In the exhibit “Unbundling the Housing Crisis,” at the Form + Content Gallery now through September 5th, 8 interdisciplinary groups of artists, designers, writers, scientists, and thinkers were asked to collaborate, research, create and present projects examining all aspects of the housing crisis.

At 7pm on September 10th at the West Bank Social Center, these 8 groups come together to present their projects, discuss their process, and share their creative approaches to understanding and unbundling the housing crisis.

Thursday, September 10th
7:00pm
West Bank Social Center
501 Cedar Ave S. Minneapolis (above the Nomad World Pub)
$3-$5 Suggested Donation
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With short presentations on:
+ Mapping neighborhood financial flows in the Hawthorn neighborhood
+ The flora of of a condemned property at 3001 James Ave. N
+ A machine to interactively decipher the housing crisis
+ PPoD: A flexible housing system
+ Houses that work with their climate
+ From a pool of slime to a McMansion in only 3,700,000,000 years!
+ Complexities of the urban fabric
+ A physical examination of 26 square blocks of North Minneapolis

And a panel discussion led by “Unbundling the Housing Crisis” curator Jay H. Isenberg, AIA

Hope to see you there!