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Designing for Urban Green Spaces: LIFT 09

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Designing for Urban Green Spaces: LIFT 09 — Presentation Transcript

Designing for Urban Green Space Elizabeth Goodman University of California, Berkeley School of Information

A little about me

Green space is not just a backdrop to sell computers Intel Centrino advertisement

Urban green space is not “natural”

San Francisco Historical Photo Collection - San Francisco Public Library

Design is a form of politics

What we want for green space can tell us a lot about what we want and fear for our cities.

Library of Congress What public visits the park? Whose community is in the garden?

Urban green spaces are a technology

…for what end?

Air Trees Eco Boulevard

The benefits of urban green space

Public health

Opportunity for physical exercise

Asthma mitigation

Psychological well-being

Environmental remediation

Storm runoff reduction

Pollution absorption

Wildlife protection

Street noise buffering

Neighborhood stability

Building social cohesion to address local concerns

Child education

Adult work training

Designing for and with urban green space

Growing expertise Personal soil sensor linked to plant knowledge database EasyBloom Soil sensor sends wireless watering reminders Botanicalls.com Community website turns seasonal, local, personal experiences into advice Myfolia.com Easybloom Botanicalls folia Photo: Matt Jones

Cultivating networks of production Mapping free fruit on private property to advertise availability Fallenfruit.org Brokering agreements online to share urban land cultivation Landshare.net Coordinating action to taking over street sights Guerillagardening.org

Fertilizing action Tracking continental climate change by volunteer “citizen scientists” JourneyNorth.org Charismatic images for changing regional planning priorities “ The 50 Million Dollar Photos” Promoting accountable urban management ParkScan.org

Framework: Networking green spaces shared garden green roof yard public park database sensing charity city regional watershed food growing Road side gardening citizen group Park lands sidewalk conversion Work training open API interface

Of distributed urban farming Farmadelphia - Front Studio

Of ecosystem intervention PlantSF.com

Of institutions and groups City of Seattle Food Bank garden plot

Thanks!

Elizabeth Goodman

www.confectious.net

egoodman @ confectious.net

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