Hey it's Yanely and Xing here! We are at Hester Street early today since we had a half-day at school, and the project that we'll be working on today consists of creating pavers for the P.S.134 Garden. Xing has an idea where she will try to design a paver with a clear resin part in the middle where she will place some kind of object, most likely a seed or leaf, so that it can be seen in the concrete. I am going to create a design for the form work of a "board game" paver that will consist of several pavers that come together to form a tic tac toe board. This project has been a lot of fun so far and it will be really cool to see our designs for the frameworks be made into real pavers that the kids can take part in at their garden.
Ok that's it for us today and we'll be back to write again soon!
As Xing says CIAO!
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Hester Street Collaborative's Citizen Designer Internship is an after-school and summer program that provides high-school students with opportunities to gain hands-on experience with community improvement projects. Participants develop a sense of youth leadership as they play an active role in developing and designing tools for creating public art and design projects. The Citizen Designer interns created this blog to the share their work, observations, ideas and experiences with the public.
Hester Street Collaborative
- HSC
- is a design/build non-profit organization created to improve the physical environment in underserved NYC neighborhoods. HSC works with residents and students in affordable housing developments, public spaces, and schools on participatory architectural projects. It is our belief that a design-build process can improve the quality of life in underserved communities in two ways: By creating compelling places, which serve the local residents; By building social capital through the process of articulating and realizing a shared vision.
Links
- Bird to the North
- Center for Urban Pedagogy
- Sustainable South Bronx
- Workshop Houston
- Rural Studio
- Alliance for Young Urban Design and the Arts (AYUDA)
- Public Architecture
- The Point
- Dreamyard
- Urban Design Alliance of Sacramento
- Architecture for Humanity
- Design Trust for Public Space
- New York Restoration Project
- Tree Hugger
- Upper Green Side
- Environmental Design Research Association
- Design Observer
- Cool Hunting
- Good Magazine
- LMCC Blog
- Other Means Reading Series
- "Child's Play" - Article