On March 22+23, 2019, we launched CityLab, an immersive and high-impact experience with community leaders, students, faculty, and industry rebels from across disciplines and backgrounds. Looking through the Dutch lens, with their long history of reclaiming spaces, we developed a series of strategies and short-term solutions for underutilized and abandoned properties in Boston’s Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods.
These solutions are meant to foster connections among people, inspire action, showcase what is possible and heal the urban fabric.
This fieldbook is a living artifact! Get inspired by the ideas generated around some properties, take a walk around the neighborhood, visit the sites, squint your eyes and imagine, collect your thoughts and ideas, sketch...then mobilize and turn them into reality.
Keep pushing + make something great because you can!
Your CityLab Team
