nightTime Sweeps

nightTime Sweeps

On Thursday March 3rd 2022, students in the Departments of Art and Geography, Planning, & Sustainability collaborated on the first nighttime activation of our newest public artwork Time Sweeps by Thea Alvin.  Student teams created  a winter gathering space titled “nightTime Sweeps” through temporary design interventions that amplified the social, sensory and biophilic elements of this public art/space.

Student groups in Megan Buknum’s Urban Geography course competed for three different awards (named after the influential urbanists, Jane Jacobs, William H. Whyte and Jan Gehl), which were judged by Urban and Regional Planning graduate students in Jon Bratt’s Qualitative Methods class.  Students in Jen Kitson’s Public Art & Social Practice Studio course piloted temporary illumination design intervention, including projection mapping, at Time Sweeps as part of studying and inviting greater student engagement with campus public art; they invited public feedback on their efforts.