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Billings, Montana: "Billings, Big Sky, and Beyond"
AERO will work with the AIA Billings Architectural Association to hold a precedent-setting three-day planning conference in Billings, Montana, in October 2000. Invited planners and architects will apply their skills to help Billings set a visionary course for the next 50 years by drafting a broad blueprint for the city and county’s revised master plan. The conference will include plenary presentations and hands-on design workshops that involve citizens, civic leaders, architects, planners, and architecture and planning students. The goal is for citizens to help draft a plan for a 60-square-mile area that has the support of people in Billings and the surrounding county for its implementation.
AIA Maui will engage county officials, businesspeople, merchants, private landowners, town association members, and the general public in discussions with local architects, landscape architects, and engineers to determine how to provide needed parking while preserving Wailuku’s existing plantation character. The Maui Redevelopment Agency will be able to use the charrette’s findings as a planning resource.
AIA, Toledo Chapter will be using the American Architectural Foundation documentary Becoming Good Neighbors: Enriching America’s Communities by Design as a resource for high school students being asked to design schools for the 21st century. The chapter hopes to involve more students from throughout the Toledo school system in the competition and to enhance their education by broadening the requirements of the competition to include the disciplines of art, science, language, and literature.
In conjunction with its national conference, FORUM, AIAS will give its members the opportunity to develop curriculum to teach elementary schoolchildren the architectural concepts that can be observed in their own built environment. The AIAS representatives will discuss architecture in a classroom session with fourth- and fifth-graders, after which the group will take a field trip through the community to discuss the relevance of the buildings that surround the school. The final product will be a handbook that AIAS chapters can use in their own communities.
This non-profit organization will expand beyond its usual offerings of public lectures about architecture to develop a neighborhood charrette to examine ways to make the transition of the Bayside neighborhood in Portland, Maine, a positive one. The Accent grant will support scholarships so that more Bayside residents can participate in the charrette process.
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This project will involve young people in the process of designing and imagining a vision for the next century. Working with architects and related professionals, the children and teens will translate their ideas about their environments into design proposals and construct models for projects to make a difference in their own school or neighborhood. In May 2000, the AFSF will sponsor a series of events, exhibitions, and forums to showcase the children’s proposals.
This archi-treasures program raises public involvement in the urban landscape by offering technical assistance that engages residents in projects that use art, architecture, and landscape to rebuild neighborhoods. Their project-based process successfully partners artists, architects, and designers with community residents to implement residents’ ideas for changing their neighborhoods. This grant will support community design charrettes and model-building workshops for four Garden Gallery projects in partnership with Chicago community organizations.
The BSA will use the change of the century to review the past 100 years of that region’s growth and to project what the next 100 years will bring. The funded project is a public forum to be held in May 2000 that will bring together the community to discuss the issues and explore an innovative regional approach to addressing local problems. An important result of this effort will be the publication and distribution of the "Citizen’s Guide to Livable Communities for the Boston Region," which will address the wide range of actions that can make a collective difference in the quality of life of communities.
This new youth education program is designed to help fifth- through eighth-grade teachers address the Illinois Goal Assessment Program and the Chicago Public School Academic Standards. The teacher’s manual being developed for this tour will provide extensive pre- and post-tour lessons, including hands-on activities for young students. Additional materials in development include an activity guide for students and a docent manual for tour-givers.
Design Corps’ goal is to develop a program that will ask South Carolina growers, migrant and seasonal laborers, state and local legislators, farmworker advocates, and architects to contribute to the design and development of low-cost housing for farmworkers and their families, thus involving all stakeholders in the decision process. The model units, which will be sensitive to the cultural background of the workers and the regional culture, will house from 16 to 20 workers each.
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The Foundation will collaborate with Philadelphia-area universities, the School District of Philadelphia, the Fairmount Park Commission, and the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development to provide this eight-week, classroom-based program. Eight selected schools contiguous to the eight participating Fairmount Park Houses will each serve as the site for one class, with a teaching team including a teacher, a volunteer architect, and a university student. The Fairmount Park Commission will provide resource support. Each team will initiate a service-learning project that will focus on the local community around the particular Park House and ultimately engage the entire community.
Using the AAF videotapes and the AAF booklet Building Connections, this Florida non-profit will work in its community to recognize and encourage businesses, organizations, and individuals that have tried to make and keep Alachua County beautiful during the past millennium. Partnerships with local broadcast entities and the school system will allow a diversity of communication vehicles.
This New York City project grew out of the Museum’s "Around the Kitchen Table Dialogue Series" and is intended to use the power of community history and historic places to instill a sense of pride in a neighborhood and to provide a common ground for addressing local issues. St. Augustine’s Church, an African American Episcopal Church with one of the few surviving slave galleries in the nation, will serve as the first project site.
This grant will help develop resource kits for schools and presentation kits for community organizations in Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, Ohio. These kits will support the use of videotapes being produced by the Public Services Institute on the importance of the region’s historic downtowns. Their intent is to educate citizens and students about the significance of historical centers to the greater community—and, ultimately, to develop better-informed voters.
CNA Insurance Companies and Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc., sponsored the 2000 grants program. The CNA and Schinnerer professional liability insurance programs are commended by The American Institute of Architects and sponsored by the AIA Trust.
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