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® ",I <br /> ® A d Calvin, Giordano & Associates, Inc. <br /> EXCEPTIONALSOLUTIONS <br /> ® \� . 1 <br /> ® OVERTOWN COMMUNITY PARK <br /> ® Miami, Florida <br /> ® I 1 a J JJ" ..: i,;� 1 p Client <br /> MJ • <br /> ® L <br /> " + ®t=''`'- - l"', The Trust for Public Land <br /> ® 'rte /rE ,.¢,?. <br /> 1„ r-NContact information <br /> ® `—i '! , — _ —_- - at time of project: <br /> Lavinia B.Freeman <br /> ® E. <br /> , v Program Director <br /> ® ,. _. r The Trust for Public Land <br /> ® L .t.17,4" v r� T._ . u 1 v n 7900 Red Road,Suite 25 <br /> o t i6.1.,,e4, , Miami,FL 33143 <br /> "- -,_ .,: a:„.::7.' Ilc `- �1th (305)667-0409 x 13 <br /> ® [CIE <br /> r. ;, •Y i�4 (305)667-0427(f) <br /> t __,_Ls4 —I' .0 - I Lavinia.Freeman@tpl.org <br /> ir <br /> ® ' 1• - /11-. _� Project Date <br /> ���"" " � 1_ T - 2005-2007 <br /> Consultant Cost <br /> ® The Overtown Community Park in Downtown Miami's Overtown Neighborhood is $12,090.00 <br /> ® evidence of our focus on creating spaces of civic and communal value. The agenda for <br /> the development of the park was to allow for the creation of'Place' not by designers but Services Provided <br /> ® by the actual individuals who are going to invest in the park's longevity and meaning - Community Workshops <br /> 9 the people. Landscape Architecture <br /> ® Civil Engineering <br /> Typically, projects that are developed with a public involvement component allow for <br /> ® the community to become involved at the very beginning or end of a project, and it is <br /> ® always more on a reactionary realm. This park is different,starting with the fact that the <br /> Trust for Public Land and the YWCA structured a partnership that established at its core <br /> ® that an entity representative of the community and which already had an established <br /> ® involvement with the local people (YWCA) would be the official caretaker of the park - <br /> ® not the municipality. We used this basis as a platform to strategize the development of <br /> the design of the park. From the beginning we acknowledged that space and money <br /> ® were very limited, but what this park was not going to have in vistas or 'bells and <br /> ®whistles,' it was going to have in spirit. In order to get the community involved,we held <br /> ® a charrette that truly engaged the participating community and gave everyone a voice. <br /> Adults were given an opportunity in a typical charrette structure, where they <br /> ® participated in teams with a CGA moderator to come up with design alternatives that <br /> ® expressed their vision. The children had their own version of a charrette - they <br /> ® participated in fun drawing sessions, where they also had a voice in expressing what <br /> their ideal park looked like or what types of amenities it had. As project manager, <br /> ® Gianno Feoli provided leadership and set the tone for the entire process: a process that <br /> ® had to be focused on the community and that CGA's role was not one of a designer <br /> intended on imposing design solutions on the community but rather one of facilitator <br /> ® who's agenda was to guide the process, interpret the input of the community and return <br /> 9 to them with something that they envisioned. <br /> 9 Charrette-Ovenown Community Park Page 21 37 <br />