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How do you involve people in a community engagement process when there is no defined community? Leslie Koch, president of GIPEC, tells us how she did it on Governors Island. |
Natural disasters: how can we improve?
Panel discussion with Martin Bell OBE, Dame Barbara Stocking (Oxfam GB) & Cameron Sinclair (Architecture for Humanity)
May 25, 2010
Royal Geographic Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London
A mixed and studious crowd gathered at the Royal Geographic Society last… 
To coincide with this afternoon’s groundbreaking ceremony for Atlantic Yards, opponents to the project held their own event: the Groundbreaking to Bury the Soul of Brooklyn. Held outside Freddy’s Bar, which lies in the project’s footprint and has been a focal point for Atlantic Yards protests, members of Develop Don’t Destroy
“How come it’s easier to find fresh fruits and vegetables in Brooklyn Heights than in the South Bronx?” To answer this question and others, our friends at the Center for Urban Pedagogy worked with local high school students at New Settlement’s Bronx Helpers to produce a…
With the internet, all the information that we need for a design can be found online, yes? With the right software and training an individual designer can make a difference, championing the environment, fostering sustainability, and forging anew the zeitgeist of the day. Right? Even though our professions have enormous…
As we look forward to 2010, it seems that we are getting signals of more austerity ahead. Recently, the MTA approved a series of fairly drastic service cuts. There is a sense that Albany will add strain to the city’s public schools by forcing budget cuts…
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Mapping Main Street heads to Flushing for audio-video explorations of Main St. produced by neighborhood students, providing a local snapshot of the nation-wide project. |
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For five years this collaborative has worked to address the challenge of increasing immigrant involvement in city parks. Check out their work and hear from two participants. |
“Design has become too important to be left to designers,” Tim Brown told a packed auditorium at Parsons last Wednesday. Brown, the president and CEO of IDEO, a global design and innovation consultancy based in Palo Alto, advocates applying a problem-solving methodology founded on observation, storytelling, visual thinking…
Transportation Alternatives and the Open Planning Project have launched a new competition, POP.Park, that asks the creative among us to design portable, affordable, pre-fabricated pop-up parks. The idea starts with Park(ing) Day, the annual reclaim-a-parking-space-as-public-park event, and takes it a step further, aiming to…
