National Grid, sponsor of the Connective Corridor Design Competition, will unveil the four visions for the project developed by the Connective Corridor design teams selected earlier this summer. The unveiling will be Monday, August 28, and the exhibition will run until September 24.

The exhibition will depict each team’s vision for the project, which will be evaluated by the competition’s selection committee. The teams were given eights weeks over the summer months to develop their displays. The four teams were charged with developing concepts to provide the competition selection committee with a sense of the vision, quality of the ideas, and technical capacity that each can produce. The designers have been asked to look at Syracuse with a fresh eye and demonstrate where they think opportunities for improvement may exist.

The team that is ultimately selected will work closely with the community on a final design that the entire city can embrace. That design may have some of the features seen as part of their exhibition display, or others that emerge from working with the community.

Altogether, there will be four exhibitions along the Connective Corridor to give the public an opportunity to examine their concepts. The locations and dates for the exhibitions are:

• National Grid: August 28 – September 24
• The Everson Museum: August 28-September 24
• Marshall Square Mall: August 30 – September 19
• The Warehouse: August 28 – September 8; and then,
  Syracuse Stage: September 11 – September 24

As part of the exhibitions, Time Warner Cable will install kiosks at the locations so that the public can comment on each of the teams’ submissions. The comments and questions will be considered in the final evaluation of the submission, which includes a public symposium and interviews of each design team by the selection committee.

The public symposium will be held at the Everson Museum of Art on Thursday, September 21. The lead designers for each of the teams will describe their visions to the public in 30-minute presentations. A time schedule for the symposium will be announced in early September.