Calgary Urban Initiative

Posted by Holly Simon on January 23rd, 2007

Just wanted to point out the Calgary Urban Initiative. One of their members and a student in between degrees in The Faculty of Fine Arts and The Faculty of Environmental Design at The University of Calgary, attended a recent discussion on Cultural Space for the Arts as part of Calgary Arts Development's Dialogue Series. I gather that the group is mostly driven by students and "up and comers" interested in sustainable urban planning, design, and architecture in Calgary. They are working on an "Urban Toolkit" and have listed commercial and residential development projects underway in Calgary on their site, www.calgaryurban.com.

Along with thousands (literally) of ideas spinning off from the Dialogue Series (summaries of all 9 events to date are on our site), The Calgary Urban Initiative is a good example of momentum in the Calgary community to be active and informed about this city's cultural and urban development.

Very

Submitted by elektron on Fri, 2007-02-02 13:41.
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Very encouraging.

Integrating public art with a more "easily accessed" resource program would allow for communities to create, recreate, and address artistic ideas in "space that matters"...

Thanks for the mention! The

Submitted by Jeff White (not verified) on Wed, 2007-02-28 18:00.
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Thanks for the mention! The Calgary Urban Initiative's first major project will be launching in the next couple of days, the CUI Awards For Excellence in Design will honour several outstanding projects that were completed in Calgary in 2006. The public is being invited to select their choice for Calgary best architectual achievemnt in 2006. The website for the awards can be found here.

http://calgaryurban.com/awards

Also, anyone interested in helping us in the push to improve design, architecture and public space in Calgary please feel free to go to our website and become a member. We are currently in the later stages of planning for our next initiative, a Symposium in conjunction with the Beltline Community.