SCHEDULE
MONDAY - Online
11 am
Summit opens: Check out the online conference center
12-1 pm
Rewiring the Electric City: Schenectady’s Revitalization
1-1:30 pm
Break
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
2:30 - 3 pm
Break
3 - 4 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
4 - 4:30 pm
Break
4:30-5:30 pm
Exhibitor presentations, affinity group meetings
TUESDAY - Online
9:30 to 10:30 am
Presentations and panel discussions
10:30 - 11 am
Break
11 am - 12 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
12 - 12:30 pm
Break
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunchtime keynote presentation
1:30 - 2 pm
Break
2 - 3 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
3 - 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 - 5 pm
Exhibitor presentations, affinity group meetings
WEDNESDAY - Online
10 am - 4 pm
Exhibitor presentations, affinity group meetings
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Evening keynote speaker at Union College
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Possible social event
MONDAY - Online
11 am
Summit opens: Check out the online conference center
12-1 pm
Rewiring the Electric City: Schenectady’s Revitalization
1-1:30 pm
Break
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
2:30 - 3 pm
Break
3 - 4 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
4 - 4:30 pm
Break
4:30-5:30 pm
Exhibitor presentations, affinity group meetings
TUESDAY - Online
9:30 to 10:30 am
Presentations and panel discussions
10:30 - 11 am
Break
11 am - 12 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
12 - 12:30 pm
Break
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunchtime keynote presentation
1:30 - 2 pm
Break
2 - 3 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
3 - 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 - 5 pm
Exhibitor presentations, affinity group meetings
WEDNESDAY - Online
10 am - 4 pm
Exhibitor presentations, affinity group meetings
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Evening keynote speaker at Union College
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Possible social event
SCHEDULE
April 18-23, 2022
MONDAY - Online
11 am
Summit opens: Check out the online conference center
12-1 pm
Rewiring the Electric City: Schenectady’s Revitalization
1-1:30 pm
Break
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
2:30 - 3 pm
Break
3 - 4 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
4 - 4:30 pm
Break
4:30-5:30 pm
Exhibitor presentations, affinity group meetings
TUESDAY - Online
9:30 to 10:30 am
Presentations and panel discussions
10:30 - 11 am
Break
11 am - 12 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
12 - 12:30 pm
Break
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunchtime keynote presentation
1:30 - 2 pm
Break
2 - 3 pm
Presentations and panel discussions
3 - 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 - 5 pm
Exhibitor presentations, affinity group meetings
WEDNESDAY - Online
10 am - 4 pm
Exhibitor presentations, affinity group meetings
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Evening keynote speaker at Union College
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Possible social event
MONDAY - Online
11 am
Summit opens: Explore Airmeet
11:30-12 pm
Keynote Presentation: Dr. Cara Courage,
The Space - Not Place - of Creative Placemaking
12-1 pm
Rewiring the Electric City: Schenectady’s Revitalization
In this opening keynote presentation, learn about the how Schenectady transformed from an industrial company town – it was the headquarters of General Electric – into a vibrant small city. Learn about the critical role that arts played in the city’s renaissance.
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
1-1:30 pm
Break
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Better Places - A Vermont Partnership to Create Vibrant and Inclusive Places
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Placekeeping: Preserving Station North's Subcultures
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Sistahs Laying Down Hands: REBIRTH and REJOICE
Placemapping: Bringing Creative Placemaking Voices to the Transportation Planning Table
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
2:30 - 3 pm
Break
3 - 4 pm
Short Stories:
-From 9 Blighted Parcels to a Dynamic Community Space: How a creative placemaking process united and mobilized a community to create lasting change
-Traffic Calming Public Art - Small Town Style!
-Starting from Fragmented: A case study of building social capital from scratch to develop a thriving and self-driven urban district.
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
The Greatriarchs: Fighting Cultural Gentrification
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Black Girl Alchemist: Self-Determinative Public Art
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
4 - 5:00 pm
Visit exhibit groups
TUESDAY - Online
9:30 to 10:30 am
Parklets & Design Guidelines: From Ad-Hoc Pandemic Response to Permanent Public Infrastructure
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Presentation: Looking Back at the Land from the Water: Building Community Through Bureaucracy
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Panel Discussion: Community Healing and Revitalization Through the Arts: A Case Study in Greenville, Jersey City
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
10:30 - 11 am
Break
11 am - 12 pm
International Perspectives on Placemaking:
-Public Art Planning (China)
-Cultural Planning Strategies for Urban Parks: Insights from an Iranian Case Study (Iran)
-Placemaking as a Concept of Urban Self-Determination: Reclaiming informal spaces under conflictual urbanity (Israel)
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Magic Murals Build Community
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Inclusive Ways of Practicing Self-Care and Resiliency
Shelter in Place: Participatory Design and Placemaking in Manufactured Housing Communities
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
12 - 12:30 pm
Break
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunchtime Keynote Presentation from Michael Shuman, How to Finance
Better Places
2 - 3 pm
Building Connection and Consonance: Black perspectives on Creativity, Trustworthiness, Welcome, Belonging, and Well-Being
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Creative Connectors
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Enhancing Quality of Place for People with Disabilities
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Youth are not the Future, but the Now
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
3:30 - 4 pm
Break
4 - 5 pm
Certificate Community Gathering
WEDNESDAY - Online
10 am - 5 pm
Explore online exhibit booths
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Keynote Presentation: Maura Cuffie-Peterson, People Powered Process
8:30 - 12 pm
Registration
10 - 10:30
Welcome remarks: Hon. Gary McCarthy, City of Schenectady, NY
10:40 am to 12 pm
Workshop: The Significance of the Sidewalk: Empowering Young People to be Facilitators of Public Hospitality
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Site visit: Brouwer House Creative: Adaptive Reuse of Schenectady's Oldest House
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Artways: Creating Paths with Public Art
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
12 - 1 pm
Lunch at local restaurants in Schenectady and Troy
1-4 pm
Energizing Pathways to Downtown Schenectady.
and
Building an Inclusive Creative & Cultural Ecosystem in Hamilton Hill
1 - 2:20 pm
Workshop: Collaborative Planning, Civic Practice, and Social [In]Justice: Engaging for Progressive Change Through Collective Creativity
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Workshop: Using Augmented Reality to Build Equitable and Inclusive Public Private Partnerships
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
2:20 - 2:40 pm
Break
2:40 - 4 pm
Pop-Up Placemaking: Using Quick, Temporary Projects to Spark Big Change
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Printing Money for Placemaking
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Site Visit and Workshop: Connecting Craft Beer and Local History to Engage New Audiences
(Note: This session meets at Frog Alley Brewing Company, 108 State Street, Schenectady) This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
4:15 - 7pm
Reception at Museum of Innovation and Science, miSci
15 Museum Drive, Schenectady
Buses to/from Proctors and miSci, beginning at 4 pm
FRIDAY - In Person
8 - 12 pm
Registration
9 - 12pm
Building Shared Civic Space Downtown
and
Community Building Against Divisive Infrastructure
9:20 - 10:40 am
Creative Placemaking without Killing the Artist
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Proctors Theater as a Key Creative Placemaking Anchor: A Q&A with Philip Morris
10:40 - 11 am
Break
11 am - 12:20 pm
Strategic Conversation: How to have a sustainable social practice career
Workshop: IMMERSIVE PLACEMAKING: Using dance and technology to enliven historic community sites
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
Placekeeping in Hamilton Hill
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
12:20 - 1:20 pm
Lunch at local restaurants in Schenectady and Troy
1:20 - 2:40 pm
The Community Mural Institute – Training local artists to be successful community muralists.
Sistahs Laying Down Hands in Public
Digital Interactive Placemaking
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
1:20 - 3:30 pm
Site visit: Gilded Age Tour
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
2:45 - 3:15 pm
What's Next?
3:15 - 4 pm
Break
4:00 - 5:30 pm
Social Practice Showcase
Meet and hear from social practice artists about how they work with communities.
This session will be submitted for AICP Certification Maintenance credits.
SATURDAY - In Person
10 am - 2 pm
Community Weave
Jay Street, across from Proctors Theater
Guest artist: Kira Dominguez Hultgren
The Community Weave is designed to be a catalyst for high-impact co-creation. There will be demonstrations and opportunities to participate in a large unique loom weaving led by guest social practice artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren who on Friday afternoon will be demonstrating a "human loom" as part of the Social Practice Artists panel. The Community Weave is a space to engage community and area attendees while gathering ideas and enthusiasm for a future larger-scale Community Weave at a later date in Schenectady. There will be a complimentary educational component with invited individuals and organizations, such as the Hudson Mohawk Weavers Guild, who will provide information on various weaving traditions, along with others who will be sharing information on sustainability in the textile industry.
THURSDAY - In Person
