Growing Parks, People and Pride

Abstract

Responding to the needs of the Gordon Parks High School administration, community stakeholders, and the student body, Students Design Activism has developed a site plan and schematic design for Three Ring Gardens, fostering an education of food production, ecology, stormwater management, and alternative energy endeavors in the everyday lives of the students. For the larger community, neighbors and students, this also becomes a place for public art, pick-up games, outdoor performances, or a simple breath of fresh air. By focusing education, equity, sustainability, and community development into Three Ring Gardens, we begin to re-envision neighborhoods to provide cultural, intellectual, economic and natural diversity.