Funding Available
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50,000 kr per new project
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Locations:
- Gävle, Sandviken or Staffanstorp
- San Antonio, TX, US.
- United Kingdom
- Chicago
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Ireland
- Southern Virginia
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To access funding:
- Complete a 30 Day Challenge
- Report the impact of your project
Hello! We're so excited you're thinking about creating a temporary parklet in your city with one of our four designs. We love parklets, because not only do they challenge us to rethink a space normally reserved to store cars, but they also allow for more space for pedestrians. We've also seen how impactful they can be for small businesses, expanding their footprints past their doors.
- Krista Nightengale
With this project, you'll reimagine what a simple 20-feet-by-8-feet parking spot can be. Choosing from four designs provided by Better Block, you can turn the parking spot into a temporary space for play, a space to expand business, or merely a space to be. The foundation of the design will be from the digital fabrication library Wikiblock, but you'll bring the color and uni...
We created an amazing opportunity for people to meet each other and I still can't believe how many people I met from my neighbourhood that I would not have met otherwise... Parklets are a global movement of design activism and what's not to like about that!'
- A collection of peple from Park(ing) Day 2021
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