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Project BackgroundThe Broadway Park Redesign Project is a partnership of the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program and the City of Ann Arbor Department of Parks and Recreation. The goal of the partnership is to encourage public discussion and proposals concerning the improvement of Broadway Park and the public riverfront of central Ann Arbor. The project emerged from public discussions convened by the City of Ann Arbor in 1997-98 to offer community feedback concerning the reconstruction of the Broadway bridges. Faculty, students, and cultural leaders who took part in those discussions under the aegis of the University of Michigan's Arts of Citizenship Program (described below) were impressed by the rich history of the Broadway area and its neglect as a public space and community resource. The Arts of Citizenship Program joined forces with the Department of Parks and Recreation to reverse that neglect through landscape design and historical story-telling. Graduate students at the Taubman College of Architecture of Urban Planning created a base of historical research and design ideas to stimulate community discussion. The Broadway Park Redesign Project is led by Professor David Scobey, a faculty member of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and director of the Arts of Citizenship Program, and Amy Kuras, landscape architect of the City of Ann Arbor Department of Parks and Recreation. Karen Kortesoja is Project Coordinator. Research was done by Emily Fischbein, Miriam Figueroa, Christina Heximer, Karen Kortesoja, Christine Novoselich, Genevieve Nutter, and John Taylor, and Karen Kortesoja prepared a design proposal for her M.Arch thesis project. The University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program is an experimental academic program that fosters the civic role of the arts, humanities, and design through collaborative community projects. Its projects have a double goal: to enhance public culture through academic-community co-creation and to develop innovative modes of teaching, research, and creative work grounded in public engagement. The Broadway Park Redesign Project is funded with a grant from the McKinley Foundation and with support from the Dean, Chair of Architecture, and Chair of the Doctoral Program of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The project collaborators express their appreciation for this support. |
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