Spaces Designed and Built By Community
Green space is a human right. A world where everyone has access to green space can be done through connecting young and old to their local landscape. I believe a great way top do this is to teach young people how to design and build in their local human built landscape. We have built our world, and todays young people have the agency to change what it will look like.
Fresh Air Fund X Penn Praxis
In the summer of 2023, I managed a team of graduate students to teach campers how to build furniture and art with reclaimed wood and wind down trees at the Sharpe Reservation in Beacon, NY for Fresh Air Fund. My team and I made a curriculum to work with over 150 campers, ages 14-18 to build signs, benches.
West Philadelphia High School X Penn Praxis
In the summer of 2022, I managed a team of graduate students to teach high school students how to make an outdoor space, affectionately know as the Porch, outside of West Philadelphia High School entrance. The space was completed in an afterschool program ins the following school year. Hosting a jazz performance in West Philly's Porchfest 2023.