Sticks & Stones
including
Design Challenge:
"A Place of Remembrance"

ENTRIES ON VIEW at AIA Seattle Gallery through 11/4, at Benaroya Hall 11/7, at Seattle City Hall 11/15-12/30, and/or online.
11/14/05: The Seattle City Council passed a Resolution recognizing the dignity of Seattle area people who have died while homeless, referencing the AIA Seattle Design Challenge: A Place of Remembrance.

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Design Challenge summary
Jury

The AIA Seattle Honor Awards Committee and Chair Jon Taylor AIA issued the invitation to all Washington design professionals, and other creative forces, to take part in the 2005 Design Challenge.

"A Place of Remembrance" exhibit at Seattle City Hall 11/15-12/30/05

This element of the Honor Awards program solicited ideas for "A Place of Remembrance" to memorialize those who die homeless within our communities. Submittals in the form of models or other physical objects appeared in an exhibit at AIA Seattle Gallery during the month of November, at Benaroya Hall on the evening of November 7, and November 15-December 30 as an exibit at Seattle City Hall (thanks to the sponsorship of the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs) – and potentially at other locations where their presence may stimulate thought and public action on issues related to homelessness. The program honors and advances the work of WHEEL, Women in Black, Real Change News, and other groups who make visible this often-invisible segment of our society.

As part of the Honor Awards program, the jury reviewed all Design Challenge entries, to bring to public attention the importance of, and the potential to realize, places of remembrance in the Seattle area and in other communities.

DESIGN CHALLENGE JURY
Steve Badanes, Howard S. Wright Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington
Shannon Nichol, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd., Seattle

ELIGIBILITY: open to all design professionals, artists, students, or anyone wishing to develop an idea for a place memorializing those who die homeless in our communities. Individual or team entries welcome.

DESIGN CHALLENGE (as presented to entrants, with additional details): Submittals should present ideas for A Place of Remembrance, either intended for a real site zone (Freeway Park? Victor Steinbrueck Park?) accessible to downtown Seattle within the METRO ride-free zone, or for an imaginary site. The design should include, as a minimum, accommodation for these elements:
� the inscription of names of those who die homeless
� gathering (of up to 50 people) for grieving, remembering, making change, etc.
� public access
Reference, Carol Smith in Seattle P-I 4/21/05:
'Ingored in life, indigent are remembered, at last, in death'