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Pangea World Theater Center for Peace & Justice |
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Mission - PWT strives to build a just world by creating multi-disciplinary theater that embodies decolonizing practices.
Story - We make inter-cultural, sacred theater that stands for intersectionality and justice. Values - Intersectional|Multi-disciplinary|Solidarity|Sustainability|Equity|Justice|Honor |
Phase 1
Renderings & Architecture - LSE Architects
Phase 2
Renderings & Architecture - LSE Architects
Project summary
Pangea World Theater’s new forever home is a multi-year regenerative development project that reimagines what a community-rooted cultural center can be in Minneapolis. Envisioned as a vibrant hub for performance, gathering, and neighborhood connection, reciprocity and healing it will be located in the heart of the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis.
Tikun Collective supported the project as lead designers from early planning and feasibility, beginning in 2020, through conceptual design, culminating in an RFP process through which LSE Architects was selected as architect of record. Tikun continues to support the project as regenerative design consultant and Living Future Accredited facilitator. When certified, the project is expected to become the first BIPOC-owned performance theater building to receive CORE Green Building Certification through the International Living Future Institute.
With Phase 1 the project will launch with the renovation of an existing building in downtown Longfellow to anchor Pangea in the neighborhood with a 50 seat rehearsal and performance area as well as production and office space to consolidate the organization. In Phase 2 the project will expand into the adjacent open lot to include a 200+ seat flexible black box theater, community space, a shared courtyard, a multipurpose pre-function lobby with spaces designed to support BIPOC art and wellness.
Emerging from years of work and deep community commitment following the unrest of 2020, the project aims to model environmental, economic, and social equity while creating stronger literal and metaphorical connections to the surrounding neighborhood rooted in a regenerative mindset.
We have been working with Pangea World Theater over the years to help realize their dream of creating a center for peace and justice orchestrating three unique conceptual designs. The original incarnation was in partnership with Gandhi Mahal Indian restaurant, then moved to the open courtyard at 3024 Minnehaha and the final concept incorporating the former Hub Bike Shop and the open court.
Check out the videos and content below for a deeper dive into the process.
Tikun Collective supported the project as lead designers from early planning and feasibility, beginning in 2020, through conceptual design, culminating in an RFP process through which LSE Architects was selected as architect of record. Tikun continues to support the project as regenerative design consultant and Living Future Accredited facilitator. When certified, the project is expected to become the first BIPOC-owned performance theater building to receive CORE Green Building Certification through the International Living Future Institute.
With Phase 1 the project will launch with the renovation of an existing building in downtown Longfellow to anchor Pangea in the neighborhood with a 50 seat rehearsal and performance area as well as production and office space to consolidate the organization. In Phase 2 the project will expand into the adjacent open lot to include a 200+ seat flexible black box theater, community space, a shared courtyard, a multipurpose pre-function lobby with spaces designed to support BIPOC art and wellness.
Emerging from years of work and deep community commitment following the unrest of 2020, the project aims to model environmental, economic, and social equity while creating stronger literal and metaphorical connections to the surrounding neighborhood rooted in a regenerative mindset.
We have been working with Pangea World Theater over the years to help realize their dream of creating a center for peace and justice orchestrating three unique conceptual designs. The original incarnation was in partnership with Gandhi Mahal Indian restaurant, then moved to the open courtyard at 3024 Minnehaha and the final concept incorporating the former Hub Bike Shop and the open court.
Check out the videos and content below for a deeper dive into the process.
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Video - Ari Lama Productions
LBC Core Green Building
Rendering & Architecture - LSE Architects | Living Building Challenge Content - Tikun Collective
Location
Longfellow, Minneapolis, MN
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project vision statement
We envision an urban organism where the building and its culture co-create an equitable, purposeful future for all forged in partnership and living in homeostasis. We will collaborate with other such organisms in growing an urban ecosystem of healthy, fully fed and self determining communities that can be a model for the 21st Century. |
Intentions
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This project will:
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Conceptual design options
Initial conceptual design
Early sketches
Partners
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