A do-tank for the built environment.
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48x48x48
Across America, cities, and their surrounding suburbs, are experiencing a range of serious challenges that are preventing the creation of vibrant and healthy communities. Those challenges range from inadequate zoning ordinances, failing infrastructure, brain drain, and environmental deterioration, to name a few. One of the largest opportunities to address these issues is through engaging local residents to apply new approaches in planning and development. In other words, the existing framework for planning and development in many of these communities is not providing immediate, effective, and dynamic action, which is what is needed. 48x48x48 is a framework for planning and development that is intended to provide immediate, effective, and dynamic action.
The guiding principle of 48 x 48 x 48 is that action taken over a 48 hour period can catalyze plans and actions taken over the following 48 months, which will then bring sustainable and lasting improvements over the next 48 years.
48x48x48 is both a community development tool for bringing together and activating local assets in innovative ways, as well as a design framework that can fundamentally shape how problems are defined, and how the solutions to those problems are generated and implemented. The 48x48x48 process depends on the dedicated work of motivated local partners in order to ensure both the short-term success as well as the long-term viability of the interventions and their concepts.
The interventions and plans for all three time scales can take on different forms depending on local needs and on the goals of the implementation team. DoTank:Brooklyn applied the 48x48x48 framework in Oyster Bay, Long Island, in order to revitalize a street in their historic downtown.
Our intervention in Oyster Bay became a downtown demonstration project, transforming Audrey Avenue into a vibrant, active, pedestrian-oriented place. Over 48 hours between June 12 and 13, the foundation was laid for Oyster Bay to continue to become a thriving community over the next 48 months and 48 years. During the 48x48x48 event, DoTank:Brooklyn worked with the community to create the communities first farmers market, as well as a motorcycle museum, which was sponsored by Billy Joel. Both the farmers market and motorcycle museum have now become permanent installations, and are contributing to the revitalization and well-being of the community.
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