Challenge Statement: Citizenship How can the built environment support citizens to improve quality of life as people start to live closer and more concentrated?

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Citizenship: In scope/ out of scope

In scope: Plausible education

and participation initiatives, community-building initiatives that could start right away; long-term participation ideas; existing ideas

adapted for Red Hook

Out: Transportation /

large-scale social or political

change / community

justice center / storm-proofing

Out: Unrealizable

ideas like free energy

for everybody

Citizenship: Expected Outcomes

Identify the gaps: Challenging & relevant

Co- create ideas/ solutions: Holistic and realizable

Design action plan: Make a plan for increasing citizen participation. Specify time frame, location, roles and responsibilities, personal commitment

Presentation to ‘Urban Experts’

Existing solutions for improving citizen participation include:

•  Incentive private waste collection programs through payment in transit vouchers (ex. Curitiba, Brazil)

•  Job training programs

•  Systems to involve citizens in budgeting and determining funding priorities, based on an understanding about limited resources and administrative restraints

Which innovations are missing?

Key question:

Imagine: A non-profit is providing seed money for the best proposal to increase citizen engagement and participation in Red Hook. It is looking for projects that meet an important community need, have strong appeal to residents and are self-sustaining for the long-term.

In your proposal, describe your project in detail, articulate the ways it improves quality of life, and define the next steps to get the project rolling right away.

Explain how citizens will contribute and how that participation will further increase engagement.

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Red Hook Reference map

Red Hook, Brooklyn

150 years

All image sources own or these Creative Commons photos:

Slide 1: Jim Henderson

Slide 4 – top: Michael Premo

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