<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;float:none">Hi friends—we re-convene this Sunday, March 4, 4-6pm.</span><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Hour 1: Questions to research for this Sunday:  concerning immigration, what is fake and being created to manipulate and control? What are the actual needs?</div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Hour 2: presentation by seminar participate Devin Carter Day, on his project: </div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br class="gmail-"></div><div class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><i class="gmail-"><font class="gmail-" color="#5877ff">My project is a case study of the Cleveland 'Dream Neighborhood', which is a project that brings together refugee resettlement nonprofit agencies, community development corporations, a local school, local council people, small businesses, and numerous refugees and their native-born neighbors. Mostly it's a project about refugee integration, community building, and neighborhood revitalization.</font></i><div class="gmail-"><i class="gmail-"><font class="gmail-" color="#5877ff"><br class="gmail-"></font></i></div><div class="gmail-"><i class="gmail-"><font class="gmail-" color="#5877ff">Because Cleveland is a 'legacy' (or Rust Belt) city, it experienced rapid depopulation (like Detroit, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and others) throughout the last 50 years. Attracting immigrants and resettling refugees is seen as a strategy to make Midwestern legacy cities more viable. This project addresses two neighborhoods on Cleveland's near West side, where housing vacancy and vacant lots are being renovated to recapture and improve land values. The rehabbed structures are rented to newly resettled refugees in these two neighborhoods, where they're close to a multilingual public school, jobs, and other resources to advance integration and multiculturalism.</font></i></div><div class="gmail-"><i class="gmail-"><font class="gmail-" color="#5877ff"><br class="gmail-"></font></i></div><div class="gmail-"><font class="gmail-" color="#5877ff"><i class="gmail-">But there's a lot more to it than that, which I can touch upon when I share my research. —Devin Carter Day</i></font></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Susan Parenti</b><br><i>Educational Coordinator </i><br><br></div><b>The School for Designing a Society </b><a href="http://www.designingasociety.net" target="_blank">www.designingasociety.net</a><br><br></div><i>Like us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/designasociety" target="_blank">Facebook</a>!</i><br></div></div>
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