Creative Placemaking Neighborhoods
“Crossing the Street: Building DC’s Inclusive Future through Creative Placemaking” is an initiative designed to promote community-building in neighborhoods that are experiencing change. OP is spearheading projects in 15 locations across the city to foster civic interaction and engage residents in a conversation about the future.
The selected locations meet some or all of the following criteria:
- Experiencing rapid demographic and social change or barriers to opportunity;
- Identified in recently completed District plans or studies for arts and culture uses, revitalization and/or creative placemaking investments
- Identified in recently completed DDOT livability and/or transit corridor studies for public space and/or safety improvements
OP has selected a diverse set of curators to work with neighborhood stakeholders and deliver projects in all eight wards of the city. To ensure Crossing the Street projects are truly local, the curators are identifying and defining the community “canvas,” the spatial and cultural backdrop for each of their creative placemaking interventions. Projects may be of varying scales, and locations may include public as well as private properties and spaces. All creative placemaking interventions are temporary in nature and expected to be implemented by December 2016. A list of neighborhoods and curators is below.
Neighborhood Curator
- Anacostia-Barry Farm-Hillsdale Building Community [bc] WORSHOP & LISC
- Mid-City East Van Alen Institute
- Pleasant Plains-Lower Georgia Ave The Pink Line Project
- Ivy City Building Community [bc] WORSHOP & LISC
- Downtown Ward 7 Gehl Studio
- Bellevue Gehl Studio
- Van Ness-UDC Ward 8 Arts & Culture Council
- Southwest Youth Playwrights’ Theatre
- U Street-Shaw Funk Parade
- Adams Morgan TBD
- Brightwood-Petworth-Park View WABA & Street Plans
- Walter Reed-Upper Georgia Ave Cultural DC
- Trinidad-Gallaudet-Florida Ave Market Van Alen Institute
- Central 14th Street TBD
- Shaw Pleasant Plains Workshop