About the Project
Queens Community Justice Center-The Rockaways (QCJC-TR), in collaboration with RUEd’ ARCH and Snøhetta will activate shared spaces on NYCHA campuses through resident-led street festivals and cultural programming that uncovers the local history of Far Rockaway. These activations will celebrate the resilience of Far Rockaway and provide safe spaces for people to be together in community.
Team
Queens Community Justice Center-The Rockaways (QCJC-TR) is an operating project of the Center for Justice Innovation, a nonprofit organization that works to create a fair, effective and humane justice system by designing and implementing operating programs, performing original research, and providing reformers around the world with the tools they need to launch new strategies. QCJC-TR was launched in 2021 in Far Rockaway, Queens, to serve as a local hub for alternative-to-incarceration programming, youth development, and community safety initiatives.
Kori Robinson
RUEd’ ARCH, a BIPOC woman-owned design firm based in East Harlem driven by an optimism in design’s power to shape people’s daily experiences, partnered with Snøhetta, an internationally acclaimed transdisciplinary design firm. The two firms ground their partnership upon a focus on inclusive design processes, access, equity, and respect for the natural environment and human-centered public spaces, and are excited to engage, envision, design and create with Queens Community Justice Center and the communities of Far Rockaway.
Images courtesy of partner organizations
Support
Our Rooted Cultures projects are made possible with lead support from the Mellon Foundation and with additional major support from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the NYC Green Relief & Recovery Fund, and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation.
Urban Design Forum programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
To learn more about supporting the Local Center, please contact Katherine Sacco, katherine@urbandesignforum.org and Lauren Nye, lauren.n@anhd.org.