Exciting news for PSU and downtown Portland!
This week, we announce the results of PSU’s Place Matters Design Competition, an effort to identify and implement large and small changes all aimed at creating a more vibrant and connected campus for PSU and downtown Portland. What the jury liked most about the Walker Macy Collaborative is their understanding of the goals that PSU wanted to achieve through this effort — strengthening belonging among our community and celebrating PSU’s diversity and uniqueness while also adding energy and meaning to the physical presence of our campus. The Collaborative team includes PSU faculty, alumni and students in addition to design professionals with a strong understanding of how centering equity in design can greatly benefit its impact in implementation. The group recommends a range of placemaking strategies designed to bring the energy of PSU indoor spaces, including classrooms, into the visible realm of the campus. They suggest both elevating and improving existing gathering places — such as the Park Blocks and Urban Plaza — and also envisioning new ones. The proposal includes a site plan calling for a new welcome center in the heart of campus, new gateways to PSUs on the Park Blocks and along Southwest Market Street and the rehoming our popular pop-up skate park, The Courts, to a new location on campus after ground is broken on PSU’s new art building. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g74wTfVG