COMMUNITY POWER

Harvard Graduate School of Design, Core IV

2021

Authors: Colleen Sloan + Morgan Vought

Instructor: Rosalea Monacella

A radical shift in the tech industry’s current chain of extraction and waste is needed to ensure social and environmental justice in South Boston and globally. This project harnesses and amplifies community power, defined as the community’s ability to thrive and to maintain resilience in the face of change, by bringing industry, government and community together to rewire sites of consumption, production, and waste processing.

Software Used for Project: ArcGIS, Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite

The project creates a Community Coalition around material exchange and sharing with five key sites of intervention. Through the Coalition’s key principles of Repair, Reimagine, Transform, Convene and Regrow, current conceptions of public and private space and waste are rewired through metabolic flows creating a new network of material ecology corridors in South Boston.