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Make Place Happen / COLORoW

In response to the limitations of in-person engagement posed by the COVID-19 pandemic Graham Projects and Hour Studio created the online placemaking toolkit, Make Place Happen. The Make Place Happen website offers resources for “Do-it-Yourself Urbanism” and/or participating with Graham Projects’ current placemaking efforts. The most exciting feature is COLORoW, a coloring book-like web app for drawing your own artistic crosswalk or pavement mural. 

COLORoW is short for “COLOring the Right of Way”. Residents are invited to use COLORoW to share their ideas with us for specific projects in their neighborhood. Participants can draw what they would like to see in their public space, download the drawing, and then share it with Graham Projects along with text and other visual inspiration via an embedded upload form. Using everyone’s drawings as inspiration Graham Projects develops our community-based design options. Like with our face-to-face workshops, but online, Graham Projects then shares back the artwork options for resident feedback and selection.

Make Place Happen / COLORoW was co-designed and built by the amazing artist-designers Tobey Albright and Mollie Edgar of Hour Studio. Added features to come.

Draw it, share it, and we will Make Place Happen! makeplacehappen.com

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    https://makeplacehappen.com

  • Approaches:

    Placemaking, Public Art, Civic Engagement

  • Project Date:

    May 2020

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    #GrahamProjects is honored to be featured on the c #GrahamProjects is honored to be featured on the cover of FORWARD, the successor to Public Art Review magazine. Read about our #publicart for ped safety at  @forecastpublicart!

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ANNOUNCING FORWARD #2: How Artists Create More Responsive, Equitable and Sustainable Transportation Solutions, guest edited by Ben Stone (@ben_j_stone) of Smart Growth America (SGA) & Transportation for America (T4A), with a lead essay by Charles T. Brown of Rutgers University (@rutgersu) and created in partnership with SGA & T4A.

FORWARD #2 focuses on sharing the stories and pushing the boundaries of how art and culture can create more responsive, equitable and sustainable transportation solutions. It offers examples, provocations, talking points, a toolkit, and a dream job. This issue also introduces Public Art Now; featuring leading voices sharing public art of the moment, Public Art Now is a new special collection of selected works that will accompany each issue of FORWARD, as an additional page in the publication. The inaugural presentation of Public Art Now is curated by Forecast consultant Tricia Heuring (@tricious), a Thai American curator, arts organizer and educator.

We are living through a moment that will bring major changes in transportation. From trains to highways to safe sidewalks, how we get around, how and where we build infrastructure, what we connect, and how it feels to move through space all matters. We know that these decisions impact different people in our communities inequitably. What kind of changes do we need structurally, politically, culturally? How are artists some of the major voices advancing and manifesting that change? Learn more in our newest issue of FORWARD.

Then register to join us next week on 2/18 at 1pm CST for our roundtable conversation with Charles T. Brown, Naomi Doerner (@thetinyurbanista) & Melvin Giles.

📸: Graham Coreil-Allen's Reverberations Crosswalks #2 is a pavement mural designed to enhance pedestrian safety for children and residents near Margaret Brent Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore, while celebrating the school’s art education focus. Photo by @baltimore_aerials
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