CREATING INTERGENERATIONAL SPACE

volunteering / 2017 - 2018 / Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC) / Unity Park, Boston, MA programs used: Illustrator, Photoshop community process documentation

GDIRC’s goal is to develop a flexible framework for constructing public places that involves community members as co-builders and results in the construction of child-focused spaces that meet the needs of children and their care-takers. These community gathering spaces are not only necessary for childhood development and physical health but to the well-being of the whole community.

GDIRC assisted Lena Park CDC, a community organization in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, with the preparation of an application for the city’s Community Preservation Act Grant. Lena Park was awarded the grant in March 2019, the project is currently under construction.

Grant application put together by many members of the Dorchester, GDIRC, and Boston’s design communities; final site plan completed independently.