Registration has closed for the 2010 Monumental Affair Charette.

This year's theme: It's About US

Limited spaces are still available for the full-day A Monumental Affair charette, held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday, November 5. Participants will explore how everyday access to beauty, through nature, art and good design, can improve the commercial corridors in the Lafayette Square area. While many commercial storefronts remain vacant in the area, residents are working together to improve the corridor, capitalizing on the vitality of the diverse international cultures that permeate the neighborhood.

• Friday, November 5th, 9:00 a.m.  to  5:00 p.m.

• $50 per person

• West 38th Street corridor

How can local and international traditions be celebrated? How can expanses of barren asphalt instead be green spaces for art, ecological services and connectivity? How can degradation and visual clutter be reframed for opportunity and vibrancy?

In accordance with this year’s theme: It’s About US, the charette will partner the very best talent that Indianapolis has to offer in design, development, construction, engineering, and public art. The resulting ideas will be presented as part of the program at this year’s A Monumental Affair awards ceremony on November 11, at the Indiana Roof Ballroom.

The Department of Metropolitan Development recently issued a Request for Qualifications for entities interested in developing thematic gateway plans for the Lafayette Square area. “The creative energies devoted in this charette, informed by residents and business owners, hold great potential for inciting healthy change in the community,” said Maury Plambeck, Director of Department of Metropolitan Development with the City of Indianapolis. “Both local and national livability experts have noted the great potential that exists in building on the Lafayette Square area’s existing strengths.”

Please contact Laura Fox at 317-264-7555 ext. 100 for more information.