About the Project
GrowHouse Community Design + Development Group, in collaboration with Creative Urban Alchemy will develop creative activations around the Flatbush African Burial Ground. They will support a community engagement process to establish a long-term vision for the space, which will further their work to develop a Black history corridor connecting sites of resistance and connection in Central Brooklyn.
Team
GrowHouse Community Design + Development Group uses the intersections of urban planning, design, storytelling and technology to fight displacement. They build community wealth by allowing young Black creatives and their allies to become developers of our own neighborhood through collective ownership of artistic production and a portfolio of neighborhood real estate and land, businesses, and cultural institutions.
Shanna Sabio
Warner Sabio
Creative Urban Alchemy, Liminal, Partners in Public Design and studio aoa make up a multidisciplinary team of designers, planners, strategists, artists and community engagement practitioners passionate about serving communities of New York City. Their collective engagement philosophy is rooted in cultivating relationships, supporting capacity building and moving at the speed of trust.
Ifeoma Ebo
Alicia Ajayi
Jeffrey Shumaker
Emmanuel Oni
Special thanks to Tei Carpenter, Michael Lenihan, Bloque and Youth Design Center, who contributed to the first phase of the project.
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.