The Bronx is Blossoming
2018
I have been a public access design fellow this year at the Center For Urban Pedagogy. Along with learning how to use art and design for education, I also worked this summer on the City Studies project "The Bronx is Blossoming" which looked closely at Bronx residents' access to nature and their relationship with the Sheridan Expressway. My role was to work with students to create a website that could become a document of the work they had done, all the ideas they'd explored, and also have resources for others. With the students, we worked on a sitemap together, initial wireframes, mockups as well as asset creation for the site—to make sure their personality really came through. The website has a collage and hand-made aesthetic, using photos and drawings made by the studies pasted together to make backgrounds and the objects. Along with this, a custom typeface "DrawnOn" used for the headings was developed to tie into this look and feel.
Credits
Center for Urban Pedagogy
- Teaching Artist: Hugo Rojas
- Teaching Artist Assistant: Katie Lan
- Project Lead: Fielding Hong
- Project Support: Katie Lan, Jenn Anne Williams
- Designer: Kevin Cadena
High School Partners
- Bronx Lab School
- Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School
- KAPPA International High School
This project was made possible by a grant awarded through the Mozilla Foundation’s Hive NYC Innovation Fund.
Site is live here
Check out project page here
Home Page
On Mobile
Menu
Bronx is Blooming Subpage with floating clickable elements
Hovering over the floating elements will give you context of what they're about
Clicking on the element will switch out the content in the middle
Arrows may appear on the sides that lead to more content!