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February 1, 2012
Hester Street Collaborative: Empowering Young Residents to Shape Their Own Environment

If you’re walking through New York City’s Chinatown and spot an out-of-the-ordinary cart, you’ll be looking at one of Hester Street Collaborative’s latest projects devoted to using design as a tool for social change.

If you’re walking through New York City’s Chinatown and spot an out-of-the-ordinary cart, you’ll be looking at one of Hester Street Collaborative’s latest projects devoted to using design as a tool for social change.

October 14, 2010
Participatory Chinatown

This video gives a great overview of the Participatory Chinatown project, along with footage from the community meeting and interviews with key players in the project. Visit www.participatorychinatown.org for more information!

August 28, 2010
Re-Imagining Chinatown: An Interactive Planning Process

The 4x8 ft. model of Chinatown includes Los Angeles State Historical Park (formerly known as the Cornfields) and portions of the LA River and will highlight the areas topography, streets, and blocks. It is designed to inspire the minds of the participants through its grand interventions, vivid use of materials, colors, textures and by allowing the public to touch and imprint their vision on it.