Spacing Out: Innovative Cultural Uses of Urban Space
On August 11, 2014, NOCD-NY celebrated the release of seven reports from our profile series, Innovative Cultural Uses of Urban Space at South Oxford Space. The report series is organized by topic:
Introduction and Executive Summary
Adaptive Reuse
Shared space
Constructions Zones and Vacant Lots
Public Outdoor Space: Long-Term & Short-Term
Publicly Owned Facilities
Religious Spaces
At a midpoint in drafting the series, over 70 allies convened for Spacing Out: A Forum on Innovative Cultural Uses of Urban Space. Authors presented a one-sheet and local examples to spark small group discussions, which further refined the reports. Mid-point components included:
Electric Midwife, photo: Steven Schreiber
Adaptive ReUse
topic one sheet and group discussion notes
presenting example: Chocolate Factory Theatre | Long Island City, Queens
photo: Whitney Browne
Shared Space
topic one sheet and group discussion notes
presenting example: South Oxford Space | Fort Greene, Brooklyn,
A construction container on East 4th Street, photo: Tom Oesau
Construction Zones and Vacant Lots
topic one sheet and group discussion notes
presenting example: FABnyc and East 4th Street
photo: THE POINT CDC
Public Outdoor Space: Long-Term
topic one sheet and group discussion notes
presenting example: THE POINT CDC Riverside Campus for Arts and the Environment | Hunts Point, Bronx
Pimp My Piragua in Corona, Queens, by Miguel Luciano, photo: Queens Museum
Public Outdoor Space: Short-Term
topic one sheet and group discussion notes
presenting example: Queens Museum of Art and the Heart of Corona Initiative | Corona, Queens
photo: Staten Island Arts
Publicly Owned Buildings
topic one sheet and group discussion notes
presenting example: Staten Island Arts Culture Lounge at the St. George Ferry Terminal | St. George, Staten Island (Staten Island Arts has since relocated to Stapleton, Staten Island)
photo: c. bay milin
Religious Spaces
topic one sheet and group discussion notes
presenting example: Trinity Project | East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The Innovative Cultural Uses of Urban Space report series and convenings were make possible thanks to support from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Cultural Innovation Fund and The New York Community Trust.
slideshow photos: Whitney Browne