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The Lawrence History Center’s exhibit, Made in America~ Story of Southwick-Union Crossing~People Place, Product will open on June 18th, 2009 at the Lawrence Heritage State Park (One Jackson St, Lawrence, MA), featuring oral history interviews and research done by Lawrence Community Works staff and youth members, and MIT@Lawrence practicum students in Spring 2009 - see interviews at http://uclawrence.ning.com/page/audio-1.
The exhibit tracks the 100 year history of the Union Crossing site - from manufacturing textiles, shoes and clothing, to creating this vibrant new Lawrence community. Focusing ont eh themes of “People, Place, Product”, the exhibit highlights transformations that took place in the complex and celebrates the spirit of community present throughout the site’s history.
Exhibit Reception, Thursday June 25 5-7pm
Open Daily 9-4pm
June 18th, 2009 - Labor Day
Free Admission
Check out this video of the final presentation to the Lawrence Community Works Union Crossing Committee, describing programs devised by the graduate and undergraduate students in the Spring 2009 Lawrence practicum course in the Dept of Urban Studies and Planning (11.423 LAWRENCE PRACTICUM: Info, Assets, and the Immigrant City). The presentation described three ideas for programs where LCW could incorporate storytelling as a process for community building around the re-development of a mill complex into green affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization - through channels such as on-site installation, skill-building workshops that feed into larger events, and virtual story documentation and sharing online on a social network. See http://uclawrence.ning.com/ for the proof of concept and to hear some of audio and video stories that the class produced or gathered.
You can also download the Powerpoint presentation.
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Monday Septemeber 8, 2008
9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Faculty Club
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Registration at 8:30 am; Program begins at 9:00 am
In 2004-05, the Housing, Community and Economic Development group hosted a weekly luncheon series which resulted in a publication entitled “Voices from Forgotten Cities: Innovative Revitalization Coalitions in America’s Older Small Cities.” To launch the dissemination of the report, a national convening, sponsored by DUSP, PolicyLink, and Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association, was held at MIT in October 2007.
To commemorate the recent release of PolicyLink’s companion report, “To Be Strong Again: Renewing the Promise in Smaller Industrial Cities,” a follow up convening will be held at the MIT Faculty Club on September 8, 2008 from 10am to 2pm (registration at 9:30am, breakfast and lunch will be provided).
Please notify Harriette Crawford (hcrawfor@mit.edu) if you would like to register for the convening. The program for this event will be forwarded to attendees.
The convening is sponsored by PolicyLink, MIT’s Community Innovators Lab, and the MA Smart Growth Alliance; registration is free.
To download or view “To Be Strong Again: Renewing the Promise in Smaller Industrial Cities,” go to: http://www.policylink.org/Projects/CoreCitiesInitiative/smallercities.html
To download or view “Voices from Forgotten Cities,” go to: http://www.policylink.org/documents/forgottencities_final.pdf
Print copies of both reports are available in Room 9-519.