March 1 & 2, 2019Duluth, Minnesota
31 years ago, the Lake Superior Design Retreat began. An interdisciplinary event exploring ideas that push boundaries. An event that explores the corners of design. An event that
dazzles you with the unexpected. So plan to come out of your winter hibernation and join us on the edge
of the frozen Lake to experience theLake Superior Design Retreat 31.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, March 1
Noon Check-in
1:00 Welcome and introductions
1:15 Interlude: Adam Regn Arvidson
1:30 Jonathan Thunder
3:15 Interlude: Adam Regn Arvidson
3:30 Erin Rafferty-Bugher
5:30 Bus leaves for dinner at Hoops
7:00 Dinner
8:30 / 9:00 Bus returns to Fitger’s
SATURDAY, March 2
7:30 Breakfast
9:00 Intro to Central Hillside Neighborhood
9:45 Bus leaves for Clyde Iron Works
10:00 Coffee & donut reception
10:30 Jess Zimbabwe
12:00 Bus returns to Fitger’s
12:15 Lunch on your own or
Optional soup & sandwich buffet at Fitger’s
1:45 Interlude: Adam Regn Arvidson
2:00 Johanna Hurme
3:45 Interlude: Adam Regn Arvidson
4:00 Ansley Barnard
5:15 Wrap-Up
5:30 Closing Reception
6:30 to 8:30 Optional Group Dinners (pay on own)
SPEAKERS
LSDR INTERLUDES
Adam Regn Arvidsonhttps://adamregnarvidson.com
Adam Regn Arvidson is a nonfiction writer focusing on landscape, nature, the environment, science, place, and raising kids to love the outdoors.
He is also a practicing landscape architect. He has won awards for both his writing and design and has published widely in design magazines. He currently works at the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.
Wild and Rare is Adam’s most recent book of “compelling stories of Minnesota’s endangered species, the landscapes that nurture them, and the people who are discovering their secrets”.
W.W.Norton, 2012
Numero Cinq. 2012
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012
Friday 1:30Jonathan Thunderhttp://thunderfineart.com
Jonathan Thunder is a multi-disciplinary artist currently residing in Duluth, Minnesota, who works in canvas painting, animation, film making and 3D projection mapping. He has attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM and studied Visual Effects and Motion Graphics in Minneapolis, MN. His work has been featured in many state, regional, and national exhibitions, as well as in local and international publications. Thunder has won several awards for his art/animation work on multiple projects.
Artist Statement“My work explores personal themes of identity and internal dialogue through story and characters. I depict expressive characters whose emotions and thoughts manifest viscerally in their physical form. The bodies of my subjects often appear fragmented, animalistic, or partially obscured. My art acts as the scrapbook recording an evolving identity. Through my subjects, I can exaggerate the villains and heroes that make up my self-image or the worldview as seen through my lens. My cultural identity infuses with my identity as an urban dweller. These paintings are vignettes by nature, a glimpse at a moment in a story that neither begins nor ends on the canvas.”
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Friday 3:30Erin Rafferty-Bugherhttp://alfredadler.edu/staff/erin-rafferty-bugher-ma-atr-bc-lpcc
Erin Rafferty-Bugher is dedicated to advancing the field of art therapy. She has twenty years of experience working professionally as an art therapist with children, adolescents, and adults who have mild to severe emotional difficulties and children facing life threatening medical conditions within hospital, community, and day treatment settings.
Erin is a full time associate faculty and field experience coordinator for the MA Art Therapy degree program at the Adler Graduate School in Minnetonka. She has participated and presented at numerous professional and focused art therapy conferences in Ireland, Canada, and the US.
Erin is a registered art therapist, certified through the American Art Therapy Association Credentials Board. She is licensed to practice as a Professional Clinical Counselor through the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy. Erin received her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and her MA degree in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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The Healing and Life Enhancing Benefits of Art Therapy
LSDR participants will hear about and explore the healing and life enhancing benefits of art therapy for individuals and society. Case study vignettes will highlight, with graphic examples, various populations and behavioral struggles, such as the elderly with dementia; children / adolescent emotional and behavioral challenges; veterans with PTSD; and adults with developmental disabilities and neurological disorders. These cases will introduce and emphasize the role that art therapy plays in healing. Advancements in art therapy and neuroscience will also be introduced to underscore the pure value of creative, artistic activity and its positive impact on brain functioning.
Participants will be invited to engage in a relaxed, experiential arts exercise to promote a synthesis of the concepts and information introduced in Erin’s presentation. This and other similar hands-on experiential exercises can help to demonstrate the potential for art to creatively further our abilities for connection within our communities and our professions.
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Saturday 10:30Jess Zimbabwehtt ps://danielrosecenter.org/people/jess-zimbabwe/
The Lake Superior Design Retreat is designed to be an interdisciplinary event with speakers who would appeal to a widely, diverse audience. In order to introduce a broader range of people to the Design Retreat, and to better connect with our host city, we are inviting Duluth residents to join us for a discussion on downtown edge neighborhoods, and specifically Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood.
Jess Zimbabwe is a licensed architect, a certified city planner, and a LEED-Accredited professional. She is the director of urban development at the National League of Cities (NLC) and founding executive director of the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership—a partnership of NLC and the Urban Land Institute. The Center’s flagship program is the Daniel Rose Fellowship for public leaders, which brings the mayors and senior leadership teams of four cities together for a year-long program of learning from land use experts, technical assistance, study tours, leadership development, and peer-to-peer exchange. The Rose Center also convenes thought leaders, conducts research, and delivers educational programs on topics of public/private interest in real estate development, design, planning, economic development, and land use strategy.
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Previously, Jess was the Director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design. During her time at the Mayors’ Institute, she also served as vice president for Programs at the American Architectural Foundation, overseeing that organization’s Great Schools by Design program and developing the Sustainable Cities Design Academy. Prior to that, Jess served as the Community Design Director at Urban Ecology, providing pro bono community planning and design assistance to low-income neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Downtown Edge Neighborhoods: Solutions & Incentives
What are the challenges and opportunities for neigbhorhoods and parks that border a city’s downtown? How does a city address low income housing, density, zoning, walkability? What ways can a city take advantage of significant commercial developments bordering a downtown?
This presentation will look at conditions impacting Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood, including the $800 million Essentia Health campus plan. Jess Zimbabwe will suggest comparisons between Duluth and other towns of similar size that have dealt with similar issues with downtown edge conditions. A discussion of both “micro-level “ neighborhood issues and impacts, as well as “macro-level” regional issues and impacts will be examined.
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Saturday 2:00Johanna Hurmehttps://tedxwinnipeg.ca/speaker/johanna-hurme/http://www.5468796.ca
Johanna Hurme, FRAIC, LEED AP, is an architect and founding partner of Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture. In the past 11 years the firm has achieved national and international recognition, including three Governor General’s Medals in Architecture from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Johanna is passionate about making the creative sector an integral part of broader culture by spearheading ventures like Table for 12 + 1200, Chair Your Idea and Design Quarter Winnipeg, which she chairs. Johanna is the immediate past chair of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and chair of the WCC’s Our Winnipeg Task Force. She has taught design at the University of Manitoba’s FAUM, the University Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, the University of Montreal, and lectures at universities across North America. In 2017, she was inducted as a Fellow of the RAIC and shortlisted for the International Moira Gemmill prize for Emerging Architecture. Johanna has most recently been appointed Visiting Professor-Morgenstern Chair at the Faculty of Architecture, Chicago IIT.
Achieving Neither More nor Less Than What it Needs to Be: Bringing Nimbleness to the Multi-Unit Housing Programme
In the field of architecture, the multi-family housing typology carries the most impact on the lives of “ordinary people” going about their everyday lives. With the condo boom taking hold, the number of residential units passing an architect’s desk is unprecedented. As a result of the typology’s inherent repetition and potentially banal programme - as well as the private sector’s pursuit of profit at the expense of quality and livability - the margin in which architecture can operate is incredibly narrow. It seems, therefore, incredibly important that architects respond to the challenges of this typology with the rigour it deserves.
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Saturday 4:00Ansley Barnardhttps://www.engr.washington.edu/news/life-on-mars
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Ansley Barnard is an aerospace and automotive engineer who enjoys solving multi-disciplinary problems. In 2017, she served as the engineering officer for HI-SEAS Mission V, living with a crew of six in an isolated habitat as astronauts might on the surface of Mars. She is passionate about performance vehicles by land, air and space and has worked with NASA and Boeing on advanced composite structures and designed aerodynamic bodywork for IndyCar. She earned a BS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington.
Strength in Wandering
Ansley will describe her experience living on “Mars” in an isolated habitat with six strangers. In 2017, she served as engineering officer for HI-SEAS, a NASA-funded research mission to study what it takes for human crews to live on Mars. She and her crew lived for eight months without the internet, perishable foods, or the breeze on their faces. Through flexibility, resiliency and team play, they developed the ability to work and live together.
While isolation was tough, bringing home the spirit of the habitat has been tougher. Based on her experience as an aerospace and automotive engineer, Ansley will discuss how technical and cultural “silos” negatively affect these industries. Just as it did at HI-SEAS, working on the breadth of our emotional and technical skills can mitigate some of these issues and support our projects.
The Hoops Brewing Company was established in 2015 by owner Dave Hoops. After 25 years as a ground-breaking craft brewer in three states, Hoops knew it was time to realize his dream: Hoops Brewing in Duluth, MN. Finding the right space was a critical key to achieving this, and the stars aligned with a chance meeting with the owners of the historic Marshall Wells Building, built in 1889. The owners were looking for a local business to take over the large 10,000 square foot space. It was a perfect fit for Hoops’ vision, not only for the brewery and beer hall but also the location very near the beloved Lake Superior – for its beauty and for its pristine water for the beer.
Demolition and reconstruction began in September of 2016 with an amazing team of local professionals. The brewhouse was contracted September, 2016 to WM Sprinkman, Co – an industry standard for brewhouse development – out of Waukesha, WI. This would be Sprinkman’s very first 15 barrel system, and also their first brewhouse delivered into Minnesota. Hoops Brewing opened it’s doors to the public on June 27, 2017.
FRIDAY EVENING
We’ll gather at 5:30 to mix and mingle.
Dinner at 7:00.
Cranberry with pecans and goat cheese saladPork Loin will be served with cranberry thyme sauceWhite wine risottoCandied carrotsBreadChocolate bourbon pecan pie Coffee or tea
And beer. Currently on tap:Pomegranate ryeHell AleStoutMexican LagerHefeweizenRyzenIndia Pale Cream AleIndia Pale AleBarrel aged Imperial StoutChili pepper AleBest BrownPorterUK Pale AleCherry Ale
Dinner at Hoops Brewing Company325 S Lake Ave in Canal Park
https://growlermag.com/now-open-damn-close-hoops-brewing/
REGISTRATION FEEThe registration fee covers the two-day program, Friday dinner, and Saturday breakfast. Lodging is extra. $180 Registration per person$100 *Children age 12-18$100 **Students
** A limited number of complimentary spaces are being held for students attending the Design Retreat for the first time. Email [email protected] for details.
CHILDRENChildren 12 and older are welcome to register and attend the entire design retreat weekend. Children under 12 years old are invited to join us for meals (see Additional Meal Costs).
* Please respect our request to refrain from bringing children under 12 years of age into the auditorium during retreat lectures.
SATURDAY LUNCH - TWO CHOICESJess Zimbabwe’s presentation on Saturday morning will be at Clyde Iron Works. Immediately following is lunch. Lunch is on your own. Take advantage of being in Duluth and choose from a provided list of restaurants in the area.For those who’d rather return to Fitger’s, we will provide a soup and salad buffet for an additional $20 pp.
ADDITIONAL MEALS FOR GUESTSContact Deanna Christiansen [email protected] order Friday dinner and/or Saturday breakfastfor guests not registered for the Retreat.
Friday dinner: $40 per personSaturday breakfast: $15 per person
DINNER SATURDAY EVENINGOur event officially concludes at 6:30 pm Saturday evening. Are you interested in joining a group of other attendees for Saturday dinner? We have reserved a private room at The Boat Club for our guests to dine that evening. All costs for your food and drink will be your responsibility. If this is something you would like to do, please indicate when you register how many seats you’d like to reserve. Deadline: February 15.
LODGINGWe have reserved rooms at Fitger’s Inn at a special rate if booked by February 15. Mention “AIA Minnesota Lake Superior Design Retreat” when you call. Fitger’s Inn (888) 348-4377
$134.99 Standard cityside$139.99 Standard lakeside$159.99 Executive class rooms and whirlpool suites, cityside or lakeside
Visit duluthbandb.com for B&B options. Contact Deanna Christiansen or call 1.800.4.DULUTH for other lodging suggestions.
CONTINUING EDUCATIONAIA Minnesota is a registered provider with the AIA Continuing Education System. We anticipate up to 6.5 Learning Unit/Hourswill be approved for the 2018Lake Superior Design Retreat.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
REGISTRATION
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Registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $180 x _____ = $
Children age 12 to 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100 x _____ = $
Full time students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100 x _____ = $ Email [email protected] for details about complimentary registration for first-time student attendees!
Vegetarian mealsWould you like to request the vegetarian dinner for Friday? oYES — for how many?
Do you have other dietary restrictions? Please explain.
Optional Saturday lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20 x _____ = $Soup and sandwich lunch buffet at Fitger’s
o Yes to Saturday dinner. Please reserve seats for me to have dinner with other LSDR attendees on Saturday evening in a private room at The Boat Club. I understand the costs for my food and drink will be my responsibility.Deadline: Feb 15
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QUESTIONS?Contact Deanna Christiansen at [email protected] or (612) 338-6763or (612) 338-6763.
REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.AIA-MN.ORG/LSDR OR SEND THIS FORM TO: Lake Superior Design Retreat AIA Minnesota 275 Market Street, Suite 54 Minneapolis, MN 55405 Fax (612) 338-7981 (Credit Cards Only)
2019 SPONSORS
THANK YOU
CF Design
Gausman & Moore
Gardner Builders
Gensler
We’d love to add you to the list!
For more details visitLSDR Sponsor Opportunities
https://www.aia-mn.org/misc-event/2019-lsdr-sponsorship/or contact Deanna Christiansen
[email protected]; 612-338-6763
