reRoot NYC
reRoot was project developed by as a part of a team of three. We collaboratively came up with the concept and strategy after extensive research and each chose to develop specific areas of the project.
Through research, site visits and social media questions to members of the Marble Hill Community, we identified three areas where design solutions could be implemented to support residents. In each instance, we evaluated if redirecting an existing resource could aid our design solutions. Through this process, we decided to address flooding and support greening; harness the power of community to increase wifi access; and use noise pollution to power public art and conversation.
reRoot NYC will connect the members of New York City neighborhoods to each other and place. This city-wide initiative will address historical and institutional neglect in communities by engaging neighborhoods and designing and measuring possible paths forward. At its core, reRoot is about redirecting, renewing and reconnecting communities.
reRoot Marble Hill will be focused on generating conversations and providing paths towards possible solutions to areas of neglect in the Marble Hill Community. Most of Marble Hill’s 9,481 residents (as of the 2010 census) live in the Marble Hill Houses, a NYCHA housing community. Our intervention will also serve residents of Kingsbridge, the community just north of Marble Hill on the Broadway corridor.
Community Design Project ︎
2020
Site
︎︎︎ NYCHA Housing Complex, Marble Hill, Bronx, NY
Client
︎︎︎ Community Members of Marble Hill
Collaborators
︎︎︎ Ciera Iveson, Kayla VanName, Michele Washington (Instructor)
Responsibilities
︎︎︎ Concept Development, graphics, zine and book production,community based research and analysis