On the fourth day of class we were visited by Jamie Zaplatosch who is the education and outreach manager at Openlands, Jamie has provided us with the oppourtunity to address one of the lots in this neighborhood by working on the design for a park/community garden for the space. Jamie addressed the survey process in which the Neighborhood Youth Garden Corps conducted a week prior to the begining of the Kidstart program, the surveys address questions pertaining to the neighborhood's issues of concern, needs, wants, activities that residents engage in and objects and element that can facilitate the activities that they would like to do. After we reviewed the surveys in groups we responded with drawing addressing the needs and wants of the community and issues that we have talked about in our research such as ecological stewardship.
Lot(s) is a pedagogical approach to empowering communities to design local common public spaces. Lot(s) seeks to recruit and connect artists and designers with communities, to utilize the knowledge imbedded within the community to create place(s) that facilitate(s) and commemorate(s) local history while looking towards social and ecological goals of the future. This collaboration between community members and artists in the creation of neighborhood spaces brings together local knowledge and a diverse resource base to effectively address several of the desires and problems concerning neighborhood. By utilizing a network of overlapping interests in the same physical and ideological spaces, project participants will work together to provide a model for future collaborations.
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