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With Art, Exercise, and Seats, U-Serve Paints a Picture of the Future Underline


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    Project brings temporary installations to enhance outdoor spaces at four Metrorail stations and the proposed Underline trail

    Underline2CORAL GABLES, Fla. (March 2016)—Students and faculty from the University of Miami School of Architecture (UMSoA) come together with Friends of The Underline and Miami-Dade Transit on Wednesday, March 30 for the U-Serve day of service featuring the future Underline at the University, Coconut Grove, and Brickell Metrorail stations. A public initiative to foster community dialogue and build awareness around mass transit, alternative transportation and public spaces, the 2016 U-Serve will activate three  Metrorail stations with faculty- and student-led programming, including art demonstrations, semi-permanent seating, and exercise installations that enhance the surrounding space.

    Throughout the day, Professor Jaime Correa and students will document the site activations and transit-user experiences via Periscope (@periscopeco), reporting on “a day in the life of” views and experiences from  Metrorail cars, on station platforms, ground-level spaces, U-Serve sites, and areas within a 5-minute walk of future Underline stations.

    U-Serve began in 2015 as an effort for the School of Architecture to give back to the community. The inaugural U-Serve involved a smartphone-driven architectural inventory of East Little Havana, where faculty and students donated about 800 labor hours to the City of Miami and inventoried 400 properties.

    For the Wednesday, March 30 U-Serve, all design studio classes will be suspended for the day, and all faculty, students, and staff are asked to participate in this unique day of service.

    U-Serve 2016 Schedule

    University Metrorail Station: Outdoor Living Installation + After Party
    8 a.m.-8 p.m., 
    5400 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, FL 33134
    From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., students and faculty will build and install temporary outdoor seating and exercise equipment, while also surveying transit users at an information tent. The temporary “outdoor living room” will be in place from March 30-September, 2016. To inaugurate the efforts, students will rally together in a “Flash Mob” style assembly from 5-6 p.m. next to US-1 to signal community activation, followed by an after party  with food and music in the UMSoA Courtyard, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

    Coconut Grove Metrorail Station: Net Art in Palm Plaza
    10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    2780 SW 27th Ct, Miami, FL 33133
    UMSoA Professor Carrie Penabad, in collaboration with the UM College of Engineering, will lead students in creating a site-specific installation where fish netting will be suspended between palm trees to create “Net Art” in the plaza.

    Brickell Metrorail Station: Performance Art
    10 a.m. -4 p.m., 
    1001 SW First Ave. Downtown Miami, FL 33130
    Under the guidance of UMSoA faculty members Christina Canton and Jorge Trelles, students will display a blowup rendering of The Underline and activate the space with temporary dance and music demonstrations.

     About The Underline

    The Underline is a planned 10-mile urban trail, linear park, and living art destination that will span from the Miami River, north of the Brickell Metrorail station to Dadeland South and feature dedicated bike and pedestrian paths, amenities, art, lighting, native vegetation and safety features and improvements at road crossings. The Underline will be built in phases, the first of which will begin in the Brickell area.

    For more information, visit www.theunderline.org, and follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @theunderlinemia.

    About Friends of The Underline
    Friends of The Underline is a 501C3 non-profit organization advocating to transform the underutilized land below Miami’s Metrorail into a 10-mile linear park, urban trail and canvas for artistic expression to create a safer, healthier, more connected, mobile and engaged community.

     

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