Date: September 17th 2008

Bird's eye view of Washington Square Park

Park(ing) Day 2008

Friday September 19, 8am - 8pm

Center for Architecture Park
(in a parking space opposite the CFA)
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012

common room, with Guido Hartray and the New Practices New York Committee, is setting up a field station in a parking space at the CFA to study the private use of public places and the public use of private spaces, focusing on three parks in the immediate vicinity of the Center for Architecture. The public is invited to stop for a cup of coffee, discuss the topic and go into the field to explore the public/private interfaces of the surrounding parks. All findings will be documented in a field journal.
The field office is an extension of the the common room installation in New Practices New York/2008 exhibition at the CFA, which for the month of September addresses the theme Local context ‘Center for Architecture’.

Park(ing) Day is an international event that reclaims over 200 parking spots in 50 cities around the world and transforms them into engaging public spaces for one day a year. Park(ing) Day is an opportunity to celebrate parks in cities and promote the need for more parks by creating temporary public parks in public parking spaces. (for more information visit www.parkingdaynyc.org/)

The Center for Architecture Park is made possible with kind support from Transportation Alternatives.

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