SLOW & STEADY · Opening October 1
Opening Reception:
6 - 9 Friday, October 01, 2010
Gallery Hours: 9 - 5 M - F
or by appointment
On view through October 29, 2010
Slow & Steady, a thesis exhibition by Rochester Institute of Technology’s Masters of Fine Arts candidate Christin Boggs, examines the contemporary movement away from mass-produced foods in a return to traditional modes of food production and preparation. Photographs depict scenes from community gardens, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms, and farmers markets within the greater Rochester region.
Awareness of food problems has been widely spread, by the recent emergence of food writers and film producers. In the summer of 2009, Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, authors of Omnivore's Dilemma and Fast Food Nation respectively, released Food, Inc., a documentary that sheds light on a money-hungry system of food production that checks moral responsibility at the door. In response, individuals have sought out a solution that, economically and ethically, is a return to ancestral traditions of growing, preparing, and sharing food within small communities. Slow Food International was established in 1986 when Carlo Petrini protested the opening of a McDonalds in Rome. Locavore, a term coined in 2005, denotes a person who has made a commitment to eat foods produced within a 100-250 mile radius. Grassroots projects such as city and school gardens have become a trend across America in recent years. The movement toward slow food and local eating is catching on quickly. Within the greater Rochester area, many individuals and small communities have rejected convenience foods to responsibly grow, prepare and share sustenance in cooperative groups. Here exists a community of people from all walks of life, with differing belief systems, coming together in pursuit of food beyond Wonderbread and Kraft American Cheese.
ADAPTING SUBURBS IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY
Opening Reception:
6 - 9 Friday, March 05, 2010
Gallery Hours: 9 - 5 M to F or by appointment
Exhibit Now On View Through Friday, June 4, 2010
Adapting Suburbs in the Twenty First Century showcases Innovative design solutions for re-development, re-greening, & re-inhabiting our suburban landscapes toward a more sustainable future.
While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. Authors Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson's acclaimed new book Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (seen just to the left on this webpage) offer comprehensive solutions for architects, planners, urban designers, and developers that illustrates how existing suburbs can be redesigned and redeveloped. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions. Adapting Suburbs in the Twenty First Century showcases design solutions from 9 nationally and internationally recognized architecture and development firms with projects that have already been built, are in the advanced stages of planning and/or offer visioning solutions to existing troubled suburban landscapes.
PAST EXHIBITION - URBAN DESIGN STUDIOS 2009
Opening Reception: 6-9 Friday, Decmeber 4, 2009
Gallery Hours: 9 - 5 M to F or by appointment
Exhibit on view through: Friday, January 29, 2009
Alfred State College's Department of Computer Imaging and Architectural Engineering Technology presents the P.A.C.K. (Prince-Alexander-Champeney-Kenilworth) Historic District in the southern Marketview Heights neighborhood and was undertaken in partnership with the City of Rochester Planning Department. Thirty-four senior Architectural Technology students working in eight teams with four or five students per group met with city officials, completed a site analysis, and conducted a mini-charrette in the classroom to generate ideas for the revitalization of the neighborhood. An interim critique at Rochester City Hall gave the students the opportunity to solicit feedback from neighborhood residents, city planners and local design professionals.
More Information about the Urban Design Studios Exhibition click here.
Press Release
This December the RRCDC is partnering with Hungerford Urban Artisans (HUA), a group of artists and artisans with studios in the Hungerford complex, to help promote the Hungerford as an arts destination. Honoring the December promotional event “A-Maze-ing Hungerford” the Design Gallery will open its doors on Saturday, December 5 from 10AM to 5PM in addition to the regular First Friday hours.
PAST EXHIBITION - FOOD IS LANDSCAPE
Opening Reception: 6-9 Friday, May 1, 2009
Gallery Hours: 9 - 5 M to F or by appointment
Exhibit on view through: Friday, June 26, 2009
Eating is consequential. It not only incorporates food into the body, but the process of growing, distributing, processing, marketing and disposing of food also shapes landscapes. However, the consequences of eating from the contemporary industrial food system are obscured by distance and complexity. This installation reveals the connection between the food we eat and the landscape we make. It identifies critical issues in the Central New York food system and offers a series of design proposals aimed at making a more sustainable and socially just food system.
The installation is the work of Landscape Architecture students at the SUNY - College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. The projects are organized around two tables: one made of milk and salt representing the food history of Syracuse as well as the primary agricultural product of the region, and a table growing fresh greens with a display of design proposals for remaking the system. The designs present a range of strategies for producing food through urban agriculture, using food to activate public space, transforming food deserts, restoring regional infrastructure of processing and distribution and integrating supermarkets into urban neighborhoods.
PAST EXHIBITION - HEALTHY & HAPPY CITIES
Opening Reception: 6 - 9 Friday, February 06, 2009
Gallery Hours: 9 - 5 M to F or by appointment
Exhibit on view through: Friday, June 12, 2009
For further information
click here.
"Our Times offer an historic opportunity for society to rethink where and how we live, work, play, and shop. The path to a sustainable lifestyle builds on the principles of smart growth, new urbanism, and green buildings. If successful, it will not only vastly reduce environmental harm but also offer stunning enhancements to the current quality of life. The setting for this lifestyle is Sustainable Urbanism, the creation and support of communities that are so well designed for a high quality of life that people will eagerly opt to meet their daily needs on foot and transit." Doug Farr, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature.
Read Articles from Democrat & Chronicle, ROC Earth:
1) Sustainability comes from process, not products
2) Is Rochester the next Glenwood, Ga.?
See Douglas Farr's Reshaping Rochester lecture and book signing.
PAST EXHIBITION - Urban Design Studios
Opening Reception: 6 - 9 Friday, December 12, 2008
*Special First Friday viewing: Friday, January 2, 2009 6 - 9
Gallery Hours: 9 - 5 M to F or by appointment
Exhibit on view through Friday, January 23, 2009
Featuring collaborative student work from:
Alfred State College, Department of Computer Imaging and Architectural Engineering Technology Department, Studio III: Urban Design students present selections from their Bull’s Head Neighborhood Master Plan.
Cornell University, Department of City and Regional Planning, Land Use, Environmental Planning & Urban Design Workshop students present Downtown Vision Plan, Rochester, NY.
Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Architectural Studio 301 students present A Museum / Community Education Center / Small Business Incubator for the High Falls District in Rochester, NY.
PAST EXHIBITION - Marvels of Modernism
Closing Reception: Friday, December 5, 2008 from 6-9pm
On view through Friday, December 5, 2008
Gallery Hours: 9am-5pm M-F or by appointment
Join us for the opening reception of Marvels of Modernism, an interpretive signboard exhibit on display at the RRCDC Design Gallery thru Friday, December 5th. Also on view at George Eastman House November 19 through January 5, 2009 - a second collaboration between George Eastman House and The Cultural Landscape Foundation looking at twelve important modernist landscapes through the lens of nine photographers.