{"id":1057,"date":"2015-07-20T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2015-11-13T21:15:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T02:15:39","slug":"playgrounds-for-useful-knowledge-action-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"PLAYGROUNDS FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE: ACTION TWO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last weekend the second action of\u00a0Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge<\/a> took place at\u00a0632 Jackson Street in South Philadelphia. The event activities brought up a number of interrelated issues\u00a0that emerged over and over again\u00a0in community meetings organized at the neighborhood hub during the last couple of\u00a0weeks. In these\u00a0conversations the committees formed\u00a0in\u00a0Action One<\/a>, which focus\u00a0on\u00a0diverse social, spatial and economic aspects, converged giving priority to\u00a0the lack of green, recreation and community spaces for the different community groups to meet\u00a0and learn\u00a0each other’s culture; the deficit of resources and interests to maintain a\u00a0clean and safe environment; and the racial tensions among different community groups living side by side in this diverse neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Action Two aimed to\u00a0move from discussing\u00a0issues to\u00a0envisioning solutions by conceiving\u00a0initiatives, campaigns and strategic occupations\u00a0for the development of the neighborhood using local knowledge and assets. Philadelphia Theater of the Oppressed\u00a0opened up the event with games, which included the creation of neighborhoods according to participants conditions, interests and desires. It\u00a0later performed forum theater\u00a0inciting\u00a0participants to delve\u00a0into\u00a0issues related to neighborhood neglect and racial tensions, as well as\u00a0to propose\u00a0and act potential solutions.<\/p>\n

Mifflin Square, one of the few public green spaces of the neighborhood that has been contested by different community groups, was\u00a0the\u00a0site collectively\u00a0selected to showcase the proposed long-term neighborhood\u00a0initiatives, celebrate local knowledge, and manifest the desire of ending up\u00a0social divisions. A large scale map of the park was provided by Cohabitation Strategies to facilitate the conversation and planning of the following action. Mifflin Square is a symbolic space in the neighborhood that\u00a0has been recently targeted for improvements by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission.<\/p>\n

During the rest of the summer community members, artists and local experts\u00a0will developed further the proposed initiatives at the neighborhood hub and get ready for\u00a0Action Three, which will take place on September 19th.<\/p>\n

Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge is a project by Cohabitation Strategies with The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program<\/a>\u2019s Restored Spaces Initiative<\/a>. Curated by Luc\u00eda Sanrom\u00e1n. Project Manager Shari Hersh. Major support for Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. For more information and to get involved follow the project’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo by\u00a0Juan Pablo Pemberty
\nIllustration\u00a0by Heidi Chisholm<\/p>\n

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Last weekend the second action of\u00a0Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge took place at\u00a0632 Jackson Street in South Philadelphia. The event activities brought up a number of interrelated issues\u00a0that emerged over and over again\u00a0in community meetings organized at the neighborhood hub during the last couple of\u00a0weeks. In these\u00a0conversations the committees formed\u00a0in\u00a0Action One, which focus\u00a0on\u00a0diverse social, spatial and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}