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- AIA Las Vegas' 24-hour Town Hall Charrette
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- 24 Hour Charette
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What can the AIA and local architects do to better influence successful educational accomplishments through their planning and design - especially, when the CCSD builds cookie-cutter schools across the community that are at best no stimulation for academic achievement?
In order to create better learning environments for children of all ages, better planned and designed schools, smaller schools and schools closer to the children's homes, would the AIA and the local architectural profession support splitting-up the large, single, unified school district into independent, smaller community-based school districts more responsive to the educational and learning needs of its children?
A brief recap of our earlier discussion:
Our group had representatives from the school district including, principals, teachers, a student and the school superintendent. We opened the discussion with the topic of how to improve education in the Las Vegas area. This broad issue led to discussion about parent/school involvement, inspiring students to learn, community involvement with schools, rezoning of districts, segways to higher education, improving the commute to school, and several programs that address these goals/problems. It's almost 7pm now, and we're preparing to filter the input we got into a graphic or text format. Let the charette-ing commence...
It is 8PM and we've derived an approach for improving the educational system through the concept of Rigor/Relevance/Relationships. The paradigm will address issues in the following:
1. After school programs
2. Parent walking groups
3. Feeder school alignment
4. Community access
5. Facilities design
6. Educational culture
7. Community support
8. Curriculum
9. Planning
Sam Lepore(MIA)8PM
Food could only bribe for so long... booze maybe.j/k
Thanks to all participants. What a great team effort.
Hope Rick's boys played well today, we missed him this morning. All the groups presented and the feedback from the community was fantastic.
Mayor Goodman loved the "LOVE". Trustee Edwards said we hit it right on and is looking for the next step in conjunction with the municipalities.
Still more work to do but rest for now.
Thank you all.
What can we learn from Las Vegas now?... with ever increasing land costs even the iconic casino paradigms of the recent past... the Luxor, Caesar's, the Paris, the Venetian, the Bellagio, the Mirage, the Excaliber, the MGM... could not be built today... the new prototype City Center fits much more into less space and mimics nothing...except the fashion industry, using signature architecture from reknown architects like designer labels... sewn visibly into architectural fabric which only hapens to be in Las Vegas... which only happens to be in the desert... this message is not lost on the local education community which has "succeeded" in building more than 200 prototypical and prototypically ordinary schools to keep up with the growth of prototypically ordinary students differentiated only by their choice of designer label shoes, jeans, shirts, eyewear and hats... which are purchased from franchised retailers in prototypical commerical centers distinguished only by coordinates on a map which are referred to as neighborhoods by the newly arrived residents... most of us...
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