Mapping the Concourse 2007

The Grand Concourse, a central thoroughfare in the Bronx designed to be the Park Avenue of the Bronx, turns 100 years old in 2009. In anticipation of the centennial, the Bronx Museum of Art asked CUP to design a charrette for high school students to study the Grand Concourse. In April 2007, CUP trained eight high school students from the Bronx High School for the Visual Arts to lead an all-day charrette for their peers. The charrette’s goal was to produce a portrait of the neighborhood around the Museum and to come up with visions for its future. The project will continue every year until 2009.
This series of workshops will introduce young people in the Bronx to urban planning and urban design concepts as well as the design of democratic participation schemes, connecting physical design with the politics of implementation. The workshops will build upon one another to produce a thorough, compelling, and adaptive vision of the concourse, the neighborhood, and the future.

Participants

Carol Sun, High School Teacher
Margot Walker, Teaching Artist
Rosten Woo, Project Coordinator and Educator

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Organizations

Bronx High School for Visual Arts (BHSVA)	The Bronx High School for Visual Arts is a collaboration between the office of the Bronx Superintendent, Lehman College Art Gallery, and Wave Hill, with the support of New Visions for Public Schools.
Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA)	The Bronx Museum of the Arts is the only museum of fine art in the Bronx. Its collection focuses on art by artists of African, Asian, and Latin American descent and is composed of more than 800 contemporary works in all media.