For more information on this program and the Franklin exhibit, go to http://www.mpl.org/file/franklin_exhibit.htm.
Friday, September 10 – 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Central Library, 1st Floor Meeting Room

This year the tour will focus on commercial buildings in the downtown as well 
as a selection of residences in the East Side. 
One step-off tour will be into the 1937 Art Moderne, Hotel Metro once known as the 
Mariner Building to get a great view of the Telephone Building from the Hotel’s rooftop. 
Another highlight has been added to end the tour. There will be a stop into the 
Wisconsin Architectural Archive in the Milwaukee Public Library.

The library’s Humanities Department staff members will present building research information 
and there will be a showing of a short DVD documenting the 2007 “Alexander Eschweiler in Milwaukee” exhibition. 
The Archive will have architectural renderings and Mark Heffron’s exhibition photographs on display.
Historic Milwaukee is pleased to be collaborating with event sponsors Hotel Metro and 
Thomas and Gabriele Eschweiler, as well as partnering with the Milwaukee Public Library 
and the Wisconsin Architectural Archive.

Attendance is limited and these are popular tours so sign up early!

Seating is limited. $25 for HMI Members and $35 for NonMembers.

For more information, call 414–277–7795 or see www.historicmilwukee.org
Sign Up here

The Role of the Creative Sector in Community and Economic Development moderated by Lt Governor Barbara Lawton.
Friday, September 17th
Panel Discussion 10:30-11:45 am
Milwaukee Art Museum, Lubar Auditorium

RSVP requested

Space limited, open to the public

FREE

Join the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee to get an update on the Creativity Works!project; to hear the perspective of the NEA on the importance of our creative sector; and to enjoy spirited discussion on how the creative sector contributes to our community’s livability and sustainability.

Chair Landesman is visiting Milwaukee to acknowledge and support our being awarded an NEA/Mayors Institute on City Design grant for Creativity Works! Milwaukee Regional Creative Economy Project. This project is a partnership between the City of Milwaukee, the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, and the GMC. We have received one of only 21 grants awarded nationally, out of 200+ applicants.We look forward to seeing you on September 17.

Nabeel Hamdi is one of the pioneers of participatory planning and his book Small Change has been highly influential in describing the role that informality plays in urban life. It sets out a way of thinking on cities that gives precedence to small-scale, incremental change over large-scale projects. He shows how the trickle-down effect advocated by conservatives everywhere does not produce the sort of large-scale changes that are predicted. Instead, the trickle-up effect of self-organized systems produce the biggest changes

Location:

UWM – AUP 170

Architects are increasingly turning to infrastructure as a site of research and design practice. The lecture contemplates architecture’s agency in the “infrastructural project”, though research on the disciplines fall out with the networks of Post-Fordist Space, what Manuel Castells calls “the space of flows”. This is presented through projects that identify new networks that challenge traditional notions of infrastructure; expose new architectural typologies in contemporary urban systems and establish new techniques for the representation of urban delivery networks.

UWM – AUP 170

Friday Night is from 6 – 11pm and will be a huge party to kick off the event featuring the Milwaukee Band the EX-CLEAVERS (New Age Punk Rock) for those of you who know them. This will cost $5, and we have tickets for early sale. BYOB. There will also be kegs from The Ale House.

Saturday will run from 10am – 6pm and will feature guest speakers including…

Tony from Lamborganics – A delightful man who is in the worm farm business. We will be giving away free samples of his castings.

Franz from Weber’s AKA The Germanator – I will discuss alternative energy for the poor urban farmer and other strategies for a more sustainable Milwaukee. I too will be giving away free samples of vegetable starts in celebration of the 4 season harvest.

Urban food production and four season harvest demonstration and resources:

• Container gardening and vermi-culture combo: grow soil and food at the same time
• Single and double coverage for extended season harvest in an unheated hoop-house (space available)
• Four season harvest seedlings available (driven by demand – submit your wish list soon)
• Seed saving and harvest preservation techniques
• Low cost container, cold frames and greenhouses available
• Soil and seeds available when “all the other places have closed”
• Bees and other pollinators

Low cost energy strategies for the urban environment:

• Milwaukee’s first bicycle powered Laundromat
• “Down and Dirty” solar hot air and solar hot water systems, “free heat on a budget”
• Bicycle power basics
• Cargo bicycles and bicycle trailers
• PV and wind systems basics
• Low cost battery storage and dump load diversion

Bay View Beach cleanup, 9-11am. Meet at Bay View Park stairs. Sponsored by Bay View Neighborhood Association’s Environment & Transportation Committee.

Workforce development programs are gearing up to prepare men and women from low-income communities for jobs and careers in the green economy. The training and preparation for these jobs and careers are seen as a ‘green pathway out of poverty’ strategy, aiming to leverage green economy opportunities as a sustainable solution for moving individuals from dependency to self-sufficiency. This presentation will focus on the role that green job training can play in preparing low-income youth and adults for the green economy both as workers and activists who come from the communities most impacted by environmental problems and injustices.

UWM – AUP 170

Co-sponsored with UWM Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Initiative, Center for Jewish Studies, Cultures & Communities Program, Peck School of the Arts, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, and the Urban Studies Program. The symposium organizers at UWM – Joe Austin (History), Arijit Sen (Architecture), Lisa Silverman (History), and coordinator Kate Kramer offer a special thank you to Simone Ferro (Dance). For more information, contact Assistant Professor Arijit Sen at sena@uwm.edu.

UWM – Curtin 175