Futurefarmers is sponsoring a call for artists, architects, urban planners, gardeners and designers to help them reimagine a former Marine Corps base in Orange County with their Great Park Project. Their intention is to use the project as a research platform for discussing political and social organization of open space in urban areas.
Project ideas are due in February. My favorite sample project: Amy Franceschini's Community Garden Plots on the site of a former airstrip. Franceschini points tocommunal spaces in Copenhagen and Fritz Haeg's Gardenlab exhibit. I was reminded of the community gardens I loved in NYC, many of which have become neighborhood rallying points.
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