Our 42nd Ave

Community – Equity – Prosperity


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Join the ‘Our 42nd Ave Design Team’

Who is the Design Team?

We are a small team within a large group of people who are interested in Design, Architecture, Urban Design or a similar field. Anybody who is part of the community and has an interest in one of these field can be part of our meetings. Most of all we like to bring some design perspective to the street to make this corridor a more attractive and liveable place to be, live, work or play.

What does the Design Team do?

We help businesses to visualize how a new storefront can look like.
We help organize small and big events. Like the Community Design Fair and Street Fair Workshops.
We gather community input on design and future developments and communicate this voice to City Staff.
We think of small improvement and placemaking projects. Get funding and realize!

We organize a creative meeting every other week on Thursday evening.

How can I get involved?

Join our Thursday evening meetings. It will be an hour of brainstorming, discussion and/or workshop. Every time there will be a different topic or project. The goal is making the street a more attractive place to be, building relationships through design and most of all have fun working together with and for community members.

What is going on this Thursday?

We might think about a little placemaking project for the whole stretch and other exciting things that are going on. Would you like to be a part of the start of this design process? Lets collaborate!
New design folks will be attending the meeting. Ready to meet new people from your neighborhood?
Are you interested in what we’ve done so far? This Thursday we’ll show you many drawing and inspirational sketches for 42nd.

Interested?

Reply on this post or email awfvansisseren@hotmail.com

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A penny for your thoughts

A penny for your thoughts


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Help shape your neighborhood future!

A penny for your thoughts

Help shape your neighborhood future!

On Sunday August 26th we were present at the 42nd Avenue Street Fair. The Design Team has organized a mini-workshop to gather input from the community for new ideas for 42nd Avenue. It has been very interesting and inspirational.

Ideas on the big map

A lot of people stopped by our booth and shared their thoughts. Through posting comments on a big map of the whole street or by sitting down at the workshop table and thinking with us on ideas for a new public gathering space.

The results were many concrete ideas for the street.  We also got a good sense of what the needs are for a new public space.

If you would like to do the workshop by yourself or if you would like to share some more thoughts and ideas, please don’t hesitate, we would love to hear your ideas! We are open to any suggestion and participation. If you like to attend our next design meeting, please come and join us!

Email us or leave a comment.

Photo Gallery August 26th 2012