What Kind Of City Do You Want To Live In? (2010)
An interactive public sculpture produced with GOLES, Grace Delgado and Lucinda Kalin

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  • Evolved from the original project featured at FIGMENT, smaller collaborations with Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES,) and The School of the Future public project, this work, which combines recycled materials,sculptures, and wooden building blocks, has grown and adapted according to the social context the interactive work appears in. The latest context is a  continued collaboration with (GOLES,) this time to create a comprehensive public work  in a garden, that seeks to make the immediate environment a place for discovery, fantasy and possibility for children who live in public housing. Children engage in free play and build collaboratively, learn about what is growing in the garden, and then eat food made from plants that they have studied.
  •                   GOLES organizers will be on hand to talk to families about tenant's rights
  •                   and environmental issues in their neighborhoods- and help in
  •                   building the city and relationships with the participants.
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  •                "It is not often we get to ask the youth what kind of city they want to live
  •                in, and as a result the youth are left out of the planning process. New York
  •                City is a vibrant city that is constantly changing to meet the needs of the
  •                growing population, and we think that youth should have a voice in this
  •               change. GOLES believes that this event will teach the youth how to envision
  •               the ideal city and offer them ways to advocate and organize in order to be
  •                part of the decision making process of their community."

Marquis Jenkins
Public Housing Community Organizer
Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
Remember If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
African Proverb