Imagine a favorite urban place, maybe it’s in Superior or maybe it’s in another city you
have visited. What makes it special? This talk invites you to not only reflect on your
own sensory experiences of beloved urban spaces, but also will highlight key
principles of placemaking that make those spaces successful. What is a third place
and why are they so important to community health and wellbeing? After these more
experiential and theoretical discussions, we will turn to the history of our places.
Exploration of the “making” of the neighborhoods along the St. Louis River reminds
of the many ways that the pasts, presents, and futures of Superior and Duluth are
entwined.
Dr. Jennifer D. Webb, associate professor of art history at the University of
Minnesota Duluth, is interested in visual culture and the built landscape. She teaches
courses on global world art (to 1400), Renaissance and Baroque upper-level seminars
as well as a class, City as a Work of Art, that explores the diachronic history of Urban
Planning. City as a Work of Art includes a Community-Based Learning Project that
asks students to apply their theoretical knowledge to real-world design.
The views and opinions expressed by the speaker/event do not necessarily represent the policies or position of the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
This speaker series is funded by the Selma Swanstrom Geography Lecture Fund.
For more information, visit uwsuper.edu/JenniferWebb.