HONOR / Communications
The Community First Toolkit (CFT)
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The Jury appreciated the wide range of this project across media and different settings. The statement was very clear and easy to follow. Appreciated that this came out of the High Line, learned lessons from it, and built on that.
Image Descriptions & Credits:
Embed Equity into Landscapes: The Community First Toolkit provides a framework to directly tackle infrastructural racism and embed equity at all stages of the design process.
- High Line Network
Layering Equity onto Typical Design Processes: The 18 tools can be deployed in projects at all stages of the design process, from vision to activation.
- Grayscale Collaborative
Multiple Dissemination Formats to Maximize Access: Digital and in-person versions are publicly available. Through peer-to-peer convenings, landscape advocates uplift ideas on how to use the Toolkit.
- Decimal Studios; Liz Ligon; OCHOMASDIEZ; High Line Network
Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships: The Toolkit has been developed and shared across design, policy, and educational spaces, highlighting its relevance in multiple fields.
- Justin Knight; Brett Merriam; Don O'Keefe; Architect Magazine; Journal of Landscape Architecture, Grayscale Collaborative
Broad-ranging Impacts Across North America: Dozens of organizations and advocates have deployed the Toolkit to advance park-based equity in their communities.
- High Line Network, Grayscale Collaborative
Consultants and Research Partners:
Grayscale Collaborative
Urban Institute
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Decimal Studios, website designer
Client:
High Line Network (program of Friends of the High Line)
Asima Jansveld, Managing Director - High Line Network
Ana Traverso-Krejcarek, Senior Manager - High Line Network (Former)
Key Collaborators:
Stephen Gray, Principal - Grayscale Collaborative; Associate Professor and Program Director of Urban Design - Harvard Graduate School of Design
Anne Ning Lin, Director of Planning & Narrative Strategy - Grayscale Collaborative
Caroline Filice Smith, PhD Candidate - Harvard Graduate School of Design
Laura Greenberg, Urban Designer and Researcher
Mary Bogle, Principal Research Associate - Urban Institute
Peter Tatian, Senior Fellow - Urban Institute
Sonia Torres Rodriguez, Research Analyst - Urban Institute
Donovan Harvey, Research Analyst - Urban Institute
Mychal Cohen, Researcher - Urban Institute (Former)
Olivia Arena, Researcher - Urban Institute (Former)
Jorge Morales-Burnett, Research Assistant - Urban Institute (Former)
Guillermo Brotons, Website designer - Decimal Studios
Gabrielle Harlid, Website designer - Decimal Studios
Allie Heesh, Website designer - Decimal Studios
Joshua Levi, Website designer - Decimal Studios
Francisco Pelaez, Website designer - Decimal Studios
Project-Based Student Researchers - Harvard Graduate School of Design
(2020-2021 Seminar-Workshop “Urban Design and the Color-Line”)
Jack Chen, Jose Esparza, Laura Greenberg, Margaret Haltom, Rajan Hoyle, Vrinda Kanvinde, Emily Klein, Anne Lin, Jasmine Martin, Brett Merriam, Ruth Blair Moyers, Don O’Keefe, Ciara Stein, Michele Turrini, Sam Valentine, Sarah Zou, Jiae Azad, Rogelio Cadena, Dylan Culp, Asher Kaplan, Alison Maurer, Gena Morgis, Wanjiku Ngare, Miguel Perez Luna, Austin Pritzkat, Shannon Slade
Pilot Organizations
Vaughn Perry, Building Bridges Across the River
Nonet Sykes, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.
Ted Elmore, Richmond BridgePark Foundation
Dontrese Brown, Richmond BridgePark Foundation
Shekinah Mitchell, Richmond BridgePark Foundation
James Warren, Richmond BridgePark Foundation
Anne Olson, Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Karen Farber, Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Patrice Gillespie-Smith, Friends of The Underline
Grace Perdomo, Friends of The Underline
Rebecca Cordes Chan, Friends of the Rail Park
Ava Schwemler, Friends of the Rail Park
Katherine Toy, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Sue Gardner, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Denise McKinney, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Jessica Chen, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Mackenzie Seagraves, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Mary DeLaittre, Great River Passage Conservancy
Amanda Edwards, Houston Parks Board
Lisa Kasianowitz, Houston Parks Board
Nicole Romano, Houston Parks Board
Mauricio Garcia, High Line
Harriet Crittenden-LaMair, High Line Canal Conservancy
Suzannah Fry Jones, High Line Canal Conservancy
Kären Farber, Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc.
Carrie Tracy, Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc.
Luis García, Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc.
Walter Elcock, Trinity Park Conservancy
Elissa Hoagland-Izmailyan, Trinity Park Conservancy
Jeamy Molina, Trinity Park Conservancy
Allison Lankford, Town Branch Park
Eileen Phillips, Town Branch Park
Erica Saenz, Waterloo Greenway Conservancy
Melissa Ayala, Waterloo Greenway Conservancy