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| Program participants designing their ideas for their Dream neighborhood |
The Brownsville Community Justice Center
(the Center) is happy to announce an exciting partnership with the Municipal Arts Society (MAS) to implement an exciting new initiative called Designing Change. Designing Change is an
experiential program that uses design and art as a tool to engage youth in
community-based planning and urban design projects in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The
goals of the program is to develop the capacity of young people to lead
projects that shape and support Brownsville and to empower them to participate
in the revitalization of their neighborhood. The participants, who are
high-school aged and reside in Brownsville, will collaborate with local elected
officials, community residents and other professional designers, planners and
developers.
This initiative will support the
Center’s place-based work with the Belmont Revitalization Project. The
Belmont Revitalization Project is a part of the Center’s efforts to restore a
crime-ridden retail corridor into a striving business district that promotes
positive pedestrian activity and strong community. The Project defines the
Belmont business corridor as Belmont Avenue from Rockaway Ave to Mother Gaston
Blvd. The Project’s catchment will also include 3 cul-de-sacs adjacent to the
Belmont corridor on Thatford Avenue, Osborn Street, and Watkins Street.
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| MAS Example Project |
The 16 week program focuses on following
areas: 1. Planning and design concepts; 2. Understanding economic development;
3. Envision and Design a new commercial street. A culmination project will
display art work in a public exhibition in a One Day Public Plaza in the Thatford
Avenue cul-de-sac this Spring.
