**POSTPONED DUE TO COVID

Speakers:

JARED HUETER
Passageways Co-curator, Chattanooga, TN

MOLLY HUNTER & GREG CORSO
Designers, Cofounders of Sports Collaborative

What is the role of the artist and the creative economy in helping to frame the narrative of the city? How can artists shape the experience of the built urban space? How can the artist reactivate dormant spaces? How can they make us rethink and deepen the discussion about equity, inclusion, hope, resilience?

Troy is reconsidering its alleyways, one of the city’s great under-utilized assets. The Franklin Alleyway project, spearheaded by the Arts Center of the Capital Region, will hopefully be the first of many such activation projects. 

Our speakers will present on Chattanooga TN’s process of reactivating its own extensive alleyways through Passageways and Passageways 2.0, a wildly popular installation program which changed the city’s notion of what is possible with public space. Our speaker, Jared Heuter, was co-curator of the program. Molly Hunter and Greg Corso, cofounders of Sports Collaborative, a design group out of Syracuse, won the Passageway 2.0 commission with their “City Thread” installation.

An accompanying series of masterclasses for a select group will extend and deepen the conversation and lead to possible policy suggestions.

Reif Larsen, the 2019-2020 Writer-in-Residence at the Troy Innovation Garage, will host the Garage Talks series.