Roof Text: Towne Club
Chris Gray of the City of Grand Rapids Planning department has been a regular source of visual information about the various Civic Studio project sites (Chris's assistance was instrumental in the Stockbridge to Scale project on Bridge Street and the Placement project on Alabama). The images his office provided for the Creston area were a great source for research, imagination and understanding of the neighborhood.
While browsing the map, studio members saw text that was strangely out of scale. After further study it was determined that the phrase "by love serve one another" was painted in very large letters on the roof of a senior service facility in the neighborhood. We loved the act of public display and various implications for the text. It served as a good discussion point throughout the studio about issues the studio was investigating and considering.
