_Park_It_
A community revisioning activity.
We all own the streets and yet only 33% of North Brooklyners park their cars on them.
Can a community ‘park’ their desires in your spot? The use of cars costs every man, woman, and child in New York City the equivalent of $105 a year.
How can that cost be redistributed to benefit more people than just those with cars?
A mobile garden disguised as a vehicle.
can be moved to accommodate alternate side parking regulations. _Park_It_ has 4 wheels, seats, a platform with raised sides, ropes to pull it, soil, and brakes.
_Park_It_ needs to be pulled by two or more people to accommodate street cleaning schedules helping _Park_It_ reside in a nice fuzzy legal loophole.
An exhibition and workshop series provided a space for community stakeholders and activists to engage with the concepts of _Park_It_.
The _Park_It_ activity included a map of streets in northern Brooklyn where participants could creatively repurpose public (parking) spaces by reconfiguring the community using the basic components of _Park_It_.
Caption cards provided a mechanism for expressing the motivations and purpose of their creative public (parking) space redistribution.
Workshop participants park vehicles as they replace them on the Brooklyn street map with the _Park_It_ mobile gardens.
_Park_It_ was. created by Steven Dale, Kelly Jo, Minuette Le, and Rachel Lehrer.
_Park_It_ was created in 2012 as a part of AMPLIFY a Parsons the New School for Design DESIS Lab project with Aaron Cansler, Eulani Labay, and Kiersten Nash. AMPLIFY organized and hosted the Rockefeller-Funded Exhibition and Workshop Series.