VISUALIZING COMMUNITY IDEAS

**Workshop Design and Facilitation** to gather children’s proposals for a new park.

Challenge

Design and facilitate an activity to encourage neighborhood children to dream big and voice their ideas for a new linear park in
Jackson Heights.

Approach

Using coloring-book style line drawings of the streetscape created by Alliance for Paseo Park’s planning partner WXY Studio, I created a system to magnetize the drawings and sourced a wide selection of magnets, including words in English and Spanish. This encouraged a playful engagement with the drawings and allowed the kids to experiment with different ideas.

Outcome

We had a great time during 2 sessions, collecting ideas from our community’s future, including:

A sledding/skateboarding hill
A community garden with veggies
clean bathrooms!
an ice cream store
A bubble beach
places to have birthday parties

We shared these out with the broader visioning session to ensure the kids’ ideas were heard.