CityVision Final Presentation

January 9, 2009   6:00 - 8:00 pm

During the fall 2008 CityVision semester, twenty-five students from Browne Education Center and Howard Road Academy designed plans for a section of Interstate 395 between E Street and Massachusetts Avenue that developers plan to deck over. The National Building Museum challenged the students, with the guidance of local architects, urban planners and the D.C. Office of Planning, to build on this space and reconnect two parts of town that the interstate divided – Penn Quarter and Union Station. On January 9, the students will explain how their designs connect the neighborhoods and meet the needs of people who live and work there.

Through design basics and extensive fieldwork, CityVision instills in students that they can mold the world around them and enact positive change in their lives and the lives of others through good design. As students explore neighborhoods, brainstorm solutions and accomplish projects together, they learn the importance of teamwork, problem solving and advocacy skills.