community design - community workshop I

There are some of the lovely community members drawing their ideas on a photograph of the site!

COMMUNITY WORKSHOP I - At this point in the evening we had four activity stations set up in two rooms. You are seeing the Draw-a-Park station. In retrospect, I think I would have explained this activity a little better since most people wrote in text instead of drawing. The interesting thing was that they did locate the text spatially. But perhaps it would have been a better experience for them, if I had shown some examples of plans and sketch plans.

community design - brigham street park - sheepshead bay bk

so this summer i am a design fellow for new yorkers for parks and the awesome community of sheepshead bay brooklyn. stay tuned for the "process" of community design from this newbie's perspective.

Remember FRESHSCAPERS nobody's purrrrfect

Emergent Vegetation in Prospect Park

a lot of money and energy goes into preserving beautiful buildings and landscapes that also have historical meaning. sustainable design needs to be beautiful in order to be perpetuated. in the design world, a convincing argument bridges aesthetics with function.