Remember Cheryl Nickel, whose work to carve out housing and workspace for local artists I featured in a Q&A in December?
She wants creative types to stay close-by rather than leave the region for cheaper pastures. Informed by the popular work of researcher Richard Florida at the University of Toronto, Nickel and her partners hope to ratchet up the dialogue in San Diego about its “creative class.”
Today, she passed along some information about her group’s next step — a three-day “charette” workshop and discussion between planners, artists, architects and others that will begin on Sept. 11. Architect-led teams will flesh out ideas on as many as 10 interesting buildings or sites in downtown, North Park, City Heights, and perhaps one in North County. They’ll sketch and design hypothetical work/live space for artists and arts organizations.
If you want more information, drop a note to sdspace4art@gmail.com.