Emerging Public Spaces Construction Workshop and Conversation, presented by Van Alen Institute and Public Workshop

Location: Albee Square, Corner of Fulton Street and Bond Street, Brooklyn

As neglected, underutilized urban sites are reactivated as spaces for public use, how can we retain the playful, experimental, unscripted, and the open-ended?

Van Alen and Public Workshop, an organization that creates engaging opportunities for youth and their communities to shape the design of their cities, invite you to join us for an outdoor, hands-on construction workshop in Albee Square in Downtown Brooklyn, where we’ll work together and build a pop-up pavilion in the pedestrian plaza. Following the workshop, we’ll convene in the collaboratively constructed space to discuss how as city-dwellers we use—and define the use of—public space.

Conversation participants: Daniel Campo, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University and author of The Accidental Playground; Leslie Koch, President of the Trust for Governors Island; Alex Gilliam, founder of Public Workshop. 

Workshop 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., Conversation 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. With thanks to Robert Silman Associates, Structural Engineers.

Buy Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/emerging-public-spaces-tickets-11204259241?aff=eorg

This event is presented as part of Van Alen Institute’s Spring 2014 Events series running May 9-19th.