"Shrinking Cities" presentation and discussion
Feb. 1, 2007 - 5:00 pm
Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor MI 48104
*FREE*
From the U-M SOAD Distinguished Visitors Series press release: "On the day before the international exhibition Shrinking Cities, opens at both MOCAD and Cranbrook, a panel of creative practitioners discuss art in Detroit and the Shrinking Cities project, moderated by Detroit artist and MOCAD curator, Mitch Cope. Shrinking Cities was initiated in 2002, when Germany's Federal Cultural Foundation, the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, commissioned teams in Detroit (USA), Manchester/Liverpool (Britain), Ivanovo (Russia), and Halle/Leipzig (Germany) to investigate and document why and how these urban areas were shrinking in population and business. In the resulting exhibition, artists, architects, filmmakers, journalists, culture experts, and sociologists reveal and illuminate the changing
realities of these cities, toward developing better approaches to contemporary urban issues."
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