Neighborhood analysis and proposal
Dunn Park: increasing visibility and use
Former mill: Landscape enhancement
Signage, landscape and street-scape program
Commercial cluster: Improving signage and security Fairmount: developing revitalisation program like reusing vacant properties and corridor enhancements
3. DAP also has a series of precedent studies for placemaking in that social context, using reused parts and pieces from a steel mill to restore and alter existing infrastructures for example. Old shipping anchors can be integrated into the landscaping as an outstanding art piece to add history and industry reference. Revamping the old and restoring objects like shipping containers to act as shelters can show the poorer community what they can achieve with little cost, empowering them to innovate while still maintaining a cultural identity to their place. 4. Their Placemaking Lab also set up a placemaking event with temporary installations for food, socialising activities, brainstorming. The prototypical setup was employed to find out more about how the target users will use the space and source for areas of opportunity constraints. 116
Photo credit: Dorgan Architecture and Planning Food truck night area that holds many social areas like ping pong tables, outdoor movies, music, painting faces and balloons, instaphotos.
5. DAP uses the social context of Woonsocket to inform their decision and design planning. The legacy of using the river as a defining manufacturing feature has generated tremendous opportunities and wealth in the past. Its legacy of mill structures, theatres and other high-quality buildings has inspired the current design of DAP’s placemaking. After sourcing their information from the locals and the ideation process from the prototypical studies, DAP’s final proposal, Millrace Programming consists of a wide variety of events and services that will complement the Museum of Works and Culture, Woonsocket Historical Society programming and River Falls myriad offerings.