2025 Drexel Student Design Charrette with Vishaan Chakrabarti
Friday, May 2, 2025
1:00 PM-9:00 PM
Understanding Penn’s Landing: Towards a Democratic Delaware
Every two years, the Department of Architecture, Design & Urbanism at the Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design hosts a weekend-long student design charrette and corresponding lecture. This charrette brings together approximately 100 students from a variety of disciplines. We partner with leading thinkers on the built environment with whom we collaboratively structure a compelling weekend of interdisciplinary exploration around a mutually-determined area of focus.
This year's event will occur on Friday May 2 through Sunday May 4. Participants are required to attend the entire weekend of this design challenge and we also highly recommend attending the Arfaa Lecture on Thursday, May 1st.
Programming Timeline- Thurs. May 1 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm - Arfaa Lecture, Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Center
- Fri. May 2 - 1:00pm - 9:00pm - Day 1 of the Charrette, URBN Center
- Sat. May 3 - 9:00am - 9:00pm - Day 2 of the Charrette, URBN Center
- Sun. May 4 - 9:00am - 5:00pm - Day 3 of the Charrette, URBN Center
This year's Event Partner is
Vishaan Chakrabarti is the Founder and Creative Director of PAU, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism. Chakrabarti's work spans many disciplines and project types with a common theme of urbanity, equity, livability, and creative problem solving at the city scale. Prior to founding PAU, Mr. Chakrabarti was the Director of the Manhattan Office for the New York Department of City Planning. While serving under Mayor Bloomberg, Chakrabarti collaborated on many public projects including the push to save The Highline, the reimagining of a more resilient East River Waterfront after Hurricane Sandy, and rebuilding of the World Trade Center site after the events of 9/11. Chakrabarti also served as President of the Moynihan Station Venture at the Related Companies, forging key relationships between public and private development.
This charrette is sponsored, in part, by our Rankin-Scholar in Residence Program, which provides an honorarium and travel expenses for visiting scholars. This is a competitive process in our college that involves a proposal and selection by a committee. If selected, we would work with you on a schedule and program for the design charrette, which would occur over a weekend in April, 2025.
The
Rankin Scholars-in-Residence Series, named in honor of former Dean Marjorie Rankin and established through the continuing donations of her friends and colleagues, seeks to bring noted individuals to campus who excel in the multidisciplinary education championed by the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. The goal of the Series is to inspire students, stimulate research, invigorate professional networks, and aid in the continuing development of the Drexel community.
Contact Information
Tim Nawrocki
tn493@drexel.edu