Do You Have Ideas For 4th Avenue?

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Minuette Le wants to spruce up 4th Avenue. How might we transform a few parking spaces into mini-gardens, the MFA Transdisciplinary Design student at Parsons asks. How might we transform the street into a living room for the weekend?

If 4th Avenue was transformed into my living room, it would be littered with a comically large amount of holiday-scented Yankee candles and Golden Girls DVDs, so let's hope the vision involves someone else's living room.

Minuette is offering a workshop THIS EVENING for those who'd like to contribute ideas as part of a project called the "Forth on 4th Avenue Pilot Project." Here are some more deets, via the group's Facebook page: 

Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn is currently being master planned as Brooklyn's new grand Boulevard by the City Office, and members of the Park Slope Civic Council are planning a Temporary Pilot Project along a small section along 4th Avenue between Bergen and Degraw to serve as an example of how this street and public space can be better planned for the numerous families and cyclists that use the street on a daily basis. A busy corridor that connects many of Brooklyn's diverse neighborhoods together, 4th Avenue deserves our attention. 

Through a series of playful temporary interventions, the pilot project will 1) begin the dialogue to engage residents along 4th Avenue and 2) test greening strategies and 3) create an socially engaged streetscape through experimental play. Through a co-design workshop, we will develop some actionable ideas in small teams to design, test, and deploy before the 4/21 launch date. 

If you're interested in joining this workshop, which is open to the public, here's what you need to know:

When: Monday 3/26, 6-9pm
Where: Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, 2nd floor
What: Community Interest Meeting and Hands on Workshop
Refreshments will be served
To Bring: ideas, concepts, thoughts on material resources, and a friend or two!