![]() ![]() GDI built into the RFP requirements for further community engagement involving GDI and the Youth Council specifically, as well as requirements for the successful LA to invite the Youth Council to their offices, and engage them in the events surrounding design and construction ongoing thereby introducing them to design offices and the work of designers. As the cost was fixed, the respondents presented qualifications during an interview with the CDC. September-October 2019 GDIRC and the CDC invited landscape architects (LAs) to respond to an RFP to design the project. Summer 2019, Lena Park was awarded the grant! September 2018, GDIRC applied for a CPA Grant including this scheme and developed the budget for the project Summer 2018, a final scheme was developed and presented to Lena Park members. Summer 2018 GDIRC developed three community designs responding to CDC comments: “Plaza and Play”, “Secret Garden”, “Flexible Plaza” Teens and GDIRC interviewed members of the community and received drawings and comments from all ages from preschool children to elders. ![]() July 2018 Lena Park CDC Community Cookout. ![]() They developed design sketches and quickly became central to the process. June 2018 BSA Charrette at the BSA with Architects, Landscape Architects, local architecture school students, GSD, MassArt, MIT, Northeastern, BAC, with the Youth Council as the client voice. The group remained active participants and an inspiration to all of us throughout the project: The teens were asked to participate as designer-clients, and took to this leadership role with strong support from the Executive Director, Katherine Martinez, a champion for all of the work these teens supported. The design was developed through many community engagement workshops led with an initial design charrette with local architects, landscape architects, and faculty and students from local university architecture departments. At this meeting, the name Unity Park was coined by the teens through an engagement process that highlighted their goals of including everyone, that highlighted their intention that the park be a place to come together for all ages, abilities and differences. They especially made note to include children who are neurologically and physically challenged. In an initial meeting, Youth Council members, supported by their then Executive Director Katherine Martinez, developed the project brief: A park to unify their mixed cultural neighborhood. They attended and led meetings, observed construction and were honored at the opening of the park. This included Katherine Martinez, former Executive Director, and the Youth Council teens who were active during the design and came back to visit construction once complete. G2 Collaborative Landscape Architects (Lisa Giersbach, Gigi Saltenstall, Sara Brunelle) and Lena Park CDC. ![]() GDIRC: Mitch Ryerson, Patricia Seitz, Taylor Johnson, Mariya Lupandina, Dana Arazi Levine, Jonathan Kuhr, Elena Saporta, Anthony Crisafulli. Location: 756 Blue Hill Avenue, Dorchester, MAĬost: $600,000 for all design, construction, engineering and artist fees for the mural GDIRC developed the design concept and engagement process for a successful grant submission allowing for the design to be further developed and the park to be built in collaboration with a local design firm. Closer to home, local educators were inspired by the playgrounds in Lebanon and asked for help in securing a grant for a playground for an environmental justice community in Boston. ![]()
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