Culture
A Digital Library for All Your Community-Building Needs
The People’s Design Library gives neighbors the reins on public-space projects.
There’s a lot to consider in designing effective public space: accessibility, walkability, a pleasant ratio of infrastructure to greenery. But there’s also a consensus: community action is essential.
A new resource launched in February by the Texas-based nonprofit buildingcommunityWORKSHOP makes it a whole lot easier for community members to articulate what, exactly, they want from their public spaces—and to accomplish whatever that may be themselves. It’s called the People’s Design Library, but it’s not a library so much as it is a digital aggregate of guides and planning documents that activists, designers, and neighbors can access at any time.