When: Friday June 26 4pm - 9pm and Saturday June 27 11am - 9pm
Where: Gordon Square Arts District; Room Service Storefront + Vacant Detroit Ave Storefront, after party at the Happy Dog both nights
I was fortunate enough to get a special sneak peak of Room Service's Made In The 216 event going on this Friday and Saturday in Gordon Square / Detroit Shoreway / whatever the proper branding name of that area is, last night. (Thanks Danielle!)
What I particularly enjoy about the event is not only its ability to feature Cleveland based designers, but also how the event acts as a form of urban design, utilizing a vacant storefront in the neighborhood, as well as having the event spilling out into the street, with bands and food. Festival urbanism, or spectacle urbanism, if you will, allows people to escape the day to day rhythms of the life of the street and imagine new possibilities and potentials for how the city can be used. All the more inspiring is how the event if is effectively the work of one person, Room Service owner, Danielle DeBoe. Just goes to show the power each of us have to effect our environment if one has the motivation to do so.
As the designers go, if you plan on going, you better plan on bringing benjamins because there are a lot of great things. And I mean A LOT. I was going to list them, but it got ridicilious quickly. So just see the postcards below.
From the event press kit:
As the designers go, if you plan on going, you better plan on bringing benjamins because there are a lot of great things. And I mean A LOT. I was going to list them, but it got ridicilious quickly. So just see the postcards below.
From the event press kit:The MADE IN THE 216 event was created by ROOM SERVICE (RS) Owner, Danielle DeBoe to highlight just how many talented designers are choosing to STAY and build their businesses in CLEVELAND; And to underscore their high level of talent by merchandising the Cleveland-made designs seamlessly amongst the items purchased by NYC, LONDON, LA, SAN FRANCISCO and PARIS-based designers. There are no ‘booths’ or traditional craft/trade show set ups that differentiate the designers’ wares. They are integrated in the same creative, narrative-driven way that RS merchandises their products year round.
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