Guessing even that wouldn’t work here for more funding.

I recall an incident of a homeless woman freezing to death in Washington D.C. on the front steps of HUD national HQ.

The incident was such an embarrassment to the Clinton administration, it forced increased funding to homeless programs.

it might be best to do this project in the summer, as students will be away, the michigan daily won’t talk about it and staff/professors will be too busy with summer.

from a public relations standpoint, its best to sneak it in during the summer to avoid the negative press. create whatever delay (fictional or not) is necessary to get it in the summer.

Yes and many places invest in those lesser pieces which happen to be public structures (bus shelters, public toilets, etc) and make them special. Here it seems that we decorate (paint over) the normal city clutter instead of using our resources to design away that clutter (think elec/telephone boxes and amateurishly painted water tower).

The Fuller Road Station, even though it is not a small structure, also smacks of that, which is why I am not enthusiastic. Build a dull warehouse for cars and throw a graphic in the windows… or above the door… or out front and call it done. How about just designing a nicer building.

In Europe the architects design the art that they add and integrate it into the overall concept.

Every city does murals. We have a few good ones.

We don’t have to repeat what has already been done ad nauseum in other places. Please, no more murals. They’re prone to tagging and look bad after a couple of years without continuing maintenance. $$.

The AAPAC commissioners don’t sound like creative people when all they do is copy what other cities do. So far all they have done and propose will further homogenize the look and feel of Ann Arbor.

City-sponsored public art projects tend to be sterile, cold, predictable, dull, and don’t contribute much of substance to this fabric.

Enhance the city’s artistic fabric by legalizing graffiti on public, concrete surfaces such as bridge underpasses and the like. Graffiti is an authentic urban art form, unlike abstract steel sculpture.

Spend the 1% on that public warming shelter or something else that the city genuinely needs and that can only be provided by the government.