Houseless Visit Website ‹ Back To Events | Print Date: Mar 12, 2020
- Apr 5, 2020 Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday Times: Tues. - Sat. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sun.
Noon - 6 p.m. Admission: Included with admission Location: Anchorage
Museum Houseless considers the potential for addressing lack housing
and homelessness through design. It brings together an exhibition
about the eviction crisis in the U.S. ( Evicted: The Poverty and
Profit in the American City), an art installation, responses and
research from the Portland State University School of Architecture’s
Center for Public Interest Design, and community programming around
this socially pressing topic. Evicted: The Poverty and Profit in the
American City Organized and designed by the National Building Museum,
the exhibition Evicted: The Poverty and Profit in the American City
grew out of a book by the same title by Matthew Desmond that explores
the causes and impacts of eviction. The exhibition asks viewers to
consider how each year more than 2.3 million Americans, most of them
low-income renters, face eviction. This phenomenon exposes not only
income inequality in America, but also the growing separation between
the built environments of the rich and the poor. Through an array of
images and audio interviews, infographics and forward-thinking design,
Evicted offers an immersive experience for understanding the crisis of
low-income renter eviction, how it developed and how communities may
respond. Working together, these elements amplify the stories of
tenant families, as they explain in their own words and images the
impact eviction has on them and their loved ones. Accompanying
Installations: Houseless also presents an installation of research led
by Todd Ferry and students from the Portland State University’
Center for Public Interest Design as well as an installation by artist
and SMU Meadows School of Arts (Dallas) professor Willie Baronet.
Ferry’s current work investigates how social needs can be addressed
by architecture in underserved communities and seeks to develop new
tools and models of engagement to aid in this effort. Baronet has been
collecting homeless signs since 1993 as part of a long-term art
project titled “We Are All Homeless.” Other Houseless components,
including a series of public programs with community organizations,
will take place throughout the run of the exhibitions. Website
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