TITLE: The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument Moving Forward
DATE: 2015 - Present; 10-year Anniversary in 2025!
MATERIALS: Community Engagement, Material Analysis, A Mobile Community Brick Factory, 2,500 handmade bricks, and you.
DIMENSIONS: To be Determined
OUR VISON:
The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument is a public art process that supports social and
spatial change in Baltimore and Philadelphia in order to build a new kind of community-driven monumental public space using personalized, hand- made bricks.
LETTER FROM THE TEAM:
On behalf of our ongoing efforts to intertwine activism and research, it is with great pleasure that we present the Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument.
The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument is a new kind of monument, a monument not to the past, but a monument as an act of collective power that anticipates what will come to be. From Brick Hill to Wyman Park Dell to Kresson in Baltimore City to University City and Mantua in Philadelphia, the Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument rises from the lives of students, residents, artists, and activists to inspire a new generation of civic and spatial stewards.
The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument proposal is filled with community-driven ideas and recommendations inspired by social practice, radical ethnography, design research, and hope on how the Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument can expand in the spatial and cultural imaginary in Baltimore City and beyond. It’s filled with inclusive and visionary actionable and aspirational suggestions for creating and sustaining living heritage. It prioritizes and bears witness to the invaluable presence of people, place, culture, and history in Philadelphia and Baltimore.
I encourage you to join us in bringing the Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument to a neighborhood near you to truly honor hope and community in our historic "brick cities."
- Marian April Glebes & The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument Advisory Board, Winter 2024
A Dialogue in
4 Acts
The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument: A Dialogue in 4 Acts
This is a short video performance of an Ultra-Mobile Brick Factory workshop. Our monument is made of bricks, and made of stories. Get to know the brick-makers, and make your own ultra-mobile brick.
650+ Woodfired handmade bricks 150 sq ft
The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument: Answering the Call for A UPenn Monument for Hope
650+ Woodfired handmade bricks 150 sq ft
For the full project proposal, please see the pdf at the the link below:
650+ Woodfired handmade bricks 150 sq ft
650+ Woodfired handmade bricks 150 sq ft
650+ Woodfired handmade bricks 150 sq ft
650+ Woodfired handmade bricks, 150 sq ft
The Mobile Community Brick Factory & Monument as Social Impact in Practice. Fall 2023. A sketchbook in co-designing a community engaged co-design process to build a monument.
650+ Woodfired handmade bricks 150 sq ft
650+ Woodfired handmade bricks 150 sq ft