Hello,

The Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) AP045(1) Art and Design Excellence in Transportation subcommittee has released a Call for Paper topics that are due on August 1^st on “How Are Artists Transforming Transportation Projects and the Customer Experience?” (see details below). If you would like to make a paper submission, please go to the TRB website and find “Paper Submission for TRB Annual Meeting” for guidelines and submission details. See: http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/CallForPaper.aspx

AP045(1) Art and Design Excellence in Transportation Subcommittee

2018 Call for Paper Topic

Customer Experience

Transportation Planning and Implementation

How Are Artists Transforming Transportation Projects and the Customer Experience?

For decades, artists have significantly transformed transportation projects and the customer experience in innovative ways. Artists worldwide have engaged communities and customers during planning, construction and operation phases of transportation projects large and small using a wide range of practices. Projects have ranged from artist participation in planning, design and community outreach teams, site-specific artworks integrated into capital projects that provide world class built environments, arts and cultural performances designed to enliven public spaces, temporary exhibitions that inject dynamism into daily commutes, and a range of other innovative projects and programs that punctuate otherwise ordinary experiences into extraordinary ones.

As transportation agencies more closely examine a broad range of mobility and project delivery options, and as new technologies emerge in both the arts and transportation, there are expanded creative opportunities for artists to engage communities and to invigorate the transportation environments. You are invited to submit a paper describing the ways in which artists and cultural programming have transformed/are transforming transportation projects and customer experiences. Papers submitted for this call topic can be written in a narrative format or as a data-based analysis; submissions may include narratives, data-based analyses, graphics, etc. The outcomes of your paper should ultimately touch upon one or more of the following: a.) the role of art in transportation and economic development, b.) the value of art in transportation, c.) the relationship of art and design criteria in transportation, and d.) the role of art and culture in transportation development.

Patricia Walsh

Public Art and Civic Design Program Manager

Americans for the Arts

1000 Vermont Ave NW 6^th Floor

Washington, DC 20005-4940

202.371.2830 x2024