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“Patterns of Poverty.” Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview. “This Urban Farm Will Feed an Indy Food Desert.” Indianapolis Star. “Can Neighborhoods Be Revitalized Without Gentrifying Them?” The Nation. “How a House Can Shape a Child’s Future.” The Atlantic. examples: food, health, environment, relationships We explore the ways that individual resourcefulness and generosity contribute to collective wellness, and the forces that affect these informal support networks. The House Life Project considers issues of food access, environmental health, housing conditions and personal support networks.

Short: Do Ho Suh: “Rubbing / Loving” Prod.

“Equitable Placemaking: Not the End, but the Means.” Project for Public Spaces. “All Over the Place.” The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. “A Place Where the Soul Can Rest” Belonging: A Culture of Place. “Why Is America’s Housing so Segregated?” The Century Foundation. “Neighborhoods Can Shape Success – Down to the Level of a City Block.” The Atlantic. examples: public and private, architectural forms, urban planning, the domestic realm.

We build community on the front porch, an iconic space that blurs the line between public and private.

The House Life Project intentionally occupies homes considered uninhabitable and reframe them as a creative space to contest the stigma of such properties and the neighborhoods that contain them.

“Public Housing, Design Politics, and Twice-Cleared Communities.” Purging the Poorest (2013): 1-38. “The Reduction of Urban Vulnerability: Revisiting 1950s Suburbanization as Civil Defense.” Cold War History 2.2 (2002): 1-32. “What We Lost.” The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999. “Near Eastside.” Near Eastside – Narrative History. History both informs and impacts the areas it’s rooted in, and the key to better knowing and working within a place is through the lens of its story.Įxamples: neighborhood development, contested narratives, industry and workforce The House Life Project cannot separate our sense of place from its history and our own history. “What Do Artists Know?” The Embedded Artist Project, 2006. Indianapolis Star and WFYI Productions, 2012. Naptown to Super City: How a Civic-sports Strategy Transformed Indianapolis.“How the Art of Social Practice Is Changing the World, One Row House at a Time.” ARTnews. “Social and Economic Trends in Indianapolis 2000-2004: An Overview of Neighborhood Level Change.” Center for Community Progress, Nov. Neighborhood Change in Indianapolis: 2000-2004. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic. A shorter list of recommended readings is also available. This collection of readings was used as the framework for the 2017 HLP season and aligns with the People + Property publication and HLP focal points and values statements.

The Old Neighborhood by Ray Suarez