UNBUNDLING
THE HOUSING
CRISIS

UNBUNDLING
THE HOUSING
CRISIS

Curated by Jay H. Isenberg, AIA
Lynda Monick-Isenberg

photo by Don Vu

GHOSTS AND SHADOWS

Jay H Isenberg: Architect
Lynda Monick-Isenberg: Artist
Robert Feyereisen,
Susi Strothman, Charlie Schupp,
Ron Hanson: Feyereisen Studio
Leslie Frost: Executive, Director
Families Moving Forward
Aaron Kunkel: F+C Gallery Intern

ghosts of the abandoned, boarded and condemned
shadows of the displaced and dispossessed
deep scars upon the land, families scattered,
neighborhoods overwhelmed.
- home-i-cide

 Ghosts and Shadows is a 1:60  scale model of a 26 block wide  partial swath across North  Minneapolis depicts 270 of the  more than 1,000 homes currently  on the “249” list designated as  vacant, boarded and condemned.  A smaller overlay piece  demonstrates the viral effects of  mass foreclosures on affected  neighborhoods and the city overall.

photo by Brandon Stengel l

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 The Table of Contents is a  machine to decipher the housing  crisis; a hybrid of game board,  dining table, and scale model. It  records evocative and uncanny  housing “values” within a  neighborhood in North Minneapolis  through interactive discovery and  play.

photo by Don Vu

GEN(H)OME:
FROM A POOL OF SLIME TO A
MCMANSION IN ONLY 3,700,000,000 YEARS!

Shelter Architecture:
John Dwyer, Jackie Millea,
Kurt Gough
Mark Borrello Ph.D: Asst. Professor History of Science
Colin Oglesbay,Court Loeffler: Designers
Hunter Marcks: Graphic Design

 Cultural forces have always  effected the way we express/create
 our homes. As prosperity and  wealth grew the American home  evolved from simply fulfilling the  basic needs of shelter to fulfilling  other roles in the cultural  environment (demonstration
 of success, power, influ-ence, etc).  Homes, viewed as replicating and  evolving entities, respond to  cultural and eco-nomic forces in  much the same way biological  entities respond to environmental  forces.

photo provided by Shelter Architecture

PPoD

Locus Architecture, Ltd. Architecture, Narrative
Adam Jonas, Viktorija Kristupaitis, Paul Neseth,
Charley Umbarger & Wynne Yelland
Paul Guthrie: Toss Film & Design, Video, Graphic Design
Robert Meier: Photographs, Voice
Thanks also to these folks for their help with PPoD:
Wing Young Huie, Robert Feyereisen, Kevin Nelson, &
Steve Rajninge

 PPod (“peapod”) offers a common  sense alternative to current  housing and lending gluttony, a  flexible housing system that  modulates dwelling size according  to available financial resources and  changing needs.

image provided by Locus Architecture

MONEY ON THE BLOCK: MAPPING NEIGHBORHOOD
FINANCIAL FLOWS IN
HAWTHORNE, MINNEAPOLIS

Gabriel Cheifetz:
612 Authentic
Aleksandra Stancevic:
Entropy Design Lab

 In June of 2008, Gabriel Cheifetz  videotaped a house in the  Hawthorne neighborhood of north  Minneapolis. The house -- the  artists labelled 3020 -- was in  foreclosure and was being used as  a retail location for illegal drugs and  prostitution. In this piece,  information architecture and video  outakes map the money flows  relating to 3020: A single house  that represents the intersection
 of home foreclosure, drug sales,  mortgage fraud, and alleged police  corruption.

image provided by Aleksandra Stancevic