Ten to One and GrowHouse Community Design + Development Group are collaborating on a network of Community Resiliency Centers and Roots Corridors throughout Central Brooklyn. We have inaugurated this holistic and scalable project with the participatory stewarding of 200 public right-of-way rain gardens. This revitalized urban ecological infrastructure reduces stormwater street flooding and CSOs, reduces waste, bioremediates pollution, improves air quality and cools urban heat islands. By interconnecting and reclaiming these spaces, equivalent in aggregate size to Prospect Park, they also provide vital micro/off-grid power, seating, info-graphics providing community history, resources and culture, as well as green economy education and training.  

Projects are participatory, connecting community organizations, community members, educators, designers and builders. Projects are incremental and scalable, from actions to macro and micro urban ecological infrastructures to mobile structures to institutions. Projects are holistic, appropriating institutional knowledge through participatory mapping, networking community organizations and structuralizing climate, pollution, economic and cultural resiliency from the ground up.

This project stemmed from our Map Sampling project, a collaborative planning tool visualizing social and environmental narratives, inequities and opportunities. Map Sampling recontextualizes systems, histories and future projections to be more user-driven, grass roots, holistic and resilient through the dual lenses of community and institutional knowledge.

Team + Garrick Jones + Alin Kutan + Idil Agcagul + Allyson Quintillan + Oona Ashraf + Shanna Sabio + Warner Sabio