Unbundling the Housing Crisis; Investigations • Interpolations • Interventions • Instigations

This thematic exhibition brings together artists, architects, designers, scientists, and writers in response to the housing foreclosure crisis and its effects on communities and families. Curated by architect Jay H. Isenberg, AIA and artist Lynda Monick-Isenberg at Form+Content Gallery in Minneapolis, MN (www.formandcontent.org). The exhibition curators invited cross-disciplinary creative teams to engage in acts of civic engagement by addressing without prescription the de-stabilizing conditions brought out by the housing foreclosure crisis and its effects on communities and families. Vacant properties, displacement of children and families, borders and cultural identity issues, green space and amenity deprivation, resource, education and job challenges, commercial disinvestment and environmental degradation are all issues underpinning this social crisis. The curators invited the teams to reflect, reclaim, redo, rebuild, reveal, revise, revolt, report, and respond. The exhibition promotes voices and ideas from directions and sources generally not found at the institutional policy making table. The gallery provides a forum for displaying the result of unorthodox collaborations with work that ranges from the practical to the poetic, from the focused to the visionary. Unbundling the Housing Crisis includes drawings, illustrations, models, visual and conceptual art, constructions, manifestos and installations. Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN