By Mary Louise Schumacher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
January 27, 2012
What's a city if not an expression of the people who live in it? When you put it that way, decisions about streets and sewers, buildings and bike paths get a lot more personal.
You'd never know it, though, given the impersonal ways we talk about urban design sometimes...
CONNECTIVITY, SEGREGATION
Can art and performance projects staged in the urban landscape reduce the ways people become isolated in Milwaukee? Working independently of one another, artists Anne Basting and Sara Daleiden believe so.
Basting, an artist, theater scholar and executive director of UWM's Center on Age and Community, is working on a project called "Shipwrecked," which looks at various forms of isolation in the environment, whether cultural, generational or urban-suburban, as a public health issue. At its culmination next year, the project may feature a series of performances in the urban landscape...
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