About the Exhibit
City and regional planning processes usually result in a published plan book and implemented projects. For instance, a riverfront planning team can publish a pedestrian and bike path plan of ideas, research, and designs. Later, the team can walk on a newly-constructed greenway trail that physically exists on the ground.
Planning processes, however, usually do not take user emotions into consideration, yet emotions inform and shape how users experience the implemented plan. A riverfront greenway trail experience might be a deep calm surrounded by nature or perhaps the exhilaration of a long run.
These emotional experiences are vital to successful plans— how will building out this plan make people feel?
In this exhibit, Knowlton School graduate students transformed their own technical planning reports into abstract art to represent the core feeling(s) their proposed projects may inspire. This exhibit demonstrates the necessary critical thinking that will produce successful planning leaders.
About the Team
Kyle Ezell, Associate Professor of Practice
Curator, PLANNING IN THE ABSTRACT
Sandhya Kochar
Curator, Banvard Gallery
Graduate students in the autumn 2016 offering of CRPLAN 6010: Innovations in City and Regional Planning
Team
Amanda Pierce, Banvard Gallery Assistant
Enio Dajko, MArch
Kayla Eland, MArch
Fabian Callaham, BSArch
Emily Knox, MCRP
Daniel Yang, BSArch
Tameka Sims, Landscape Architecture
Phil Arnold, Knowlton School Media Production Coordinator
