In collaboration with the University of Toronto and made possible by the combined efforts of small local organizations and volunteers throughout portland, the 2008 MotiveSpace Symposium will be a fast-paced 2 day dialogue exploring tactics for cooperative housing development within Portland, Oregon's struggling real estate economy.
The September dialogue will provide a forum for industry related professionals and citizens to gather + contribute toward a community model of Cooperative Development. For the purposes of the dialogue, the proposed definition of cooperative development is the inititation of multi-family infill projects through the collaborative efforts of citizens and designers. It proposes a renegotiated partnership between enterprising architects and design-savvy citizens, in order to simulataneously diminish the risk of new construction in a shaky market economy, and maximize the creative excitement of design as a tool for personal, civic, and social empowerment.
Four half-day segments will explore the context, development, design, and construction related componants of cooperative development. Panelists will hybridize traditional, cohousing, and nonprofit development models, to excavate action-oriented, community-based tactics to form a foundation for economic cooperation in property development.
The september dialogue will culminate in the exhibition of four placeMaking posters and a printed journal outlining panelist proposals and community feedback. Their subsequent publication and distribution resonates with the underlying motivation for this project: a belief that increased transparency in property development enables the imagination and negotiation of the future, and is a crucial step in actualizing change.
Learn more about MotiveSpace on the website.
