{"id":1147,"date":"2015-11-13T20:17:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T01:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2015-11-13T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T01:17:56","slug":"playgrounds-for-useful-knowledge-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"PLAYGROUNDS FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIllustration\u00a0by Heidi Chisholm<\/p>\n

Cohabitation Strategies’ Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge Report was presented at a neighborhood convening today in South Philadelphia. The event was curated by the Philadelphia Mural Arts’ Restore Spaces Initiative and Lucia Sanrom\u00e1n, the project curator. The neighborhood convening\u00a0aimed to discuss the research process and findings, and explore with community stakeholders ways of\u00a0cooperation and civic engagement for the coming phases\u00a0of this long term project. Speakers and participants included:\u00a0Lucia Babina, Kirtrina Baxter, Christi Clark, Cynthia F. Figueroa, Emiliano Gandolfi, Jane Golden, Sovannary Heang, Shari Hersh, Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, Leela Kuikel, Beth McConnell, Leah Murphy, Thoai Nguyen, Pep\u00f3n Osorio, Marjetica Potr\u010d, Gabriela Rend\u00f3n, Damon Rich, Miguel Robles-Dur\u00e1n, Carlos Pascual Sanchez, Luc\u00eda Sanrom\u00e1n, Daniel Tucker, Beth Uzwiak, Shira Walinsky, and Rebecca Wanner.\u00a0For more information about the event click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report has been envisioned as a tool for a long term engagement of the Restore Spaces Program in South Philadelphia, and a call for action and collaboration for local community members, organizers, artists\u00a0and activists. We would like to thank to all the persons that made possible this publication, especially to community members\u00a0and\u00a0civic associations\u00a0that shared their knowledge and visions. Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge’s report and graphic identity\u00a0was designed\u00a0by Heidi Chisholm<\/a>, a dear friend and collaborator.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotos by Heidi Chisholm<\/p>\n

Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge is a community-based experimental urban platform that uses play, games and performance to reveal, share and celebrate local knowledge produced in South Philadelphia, an area known for its rich cultural and ethnic diversity. A project by Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), Playgrounds seeks the restructuring of urban spaces by promoting new social relations across cultural and economic divides, with the objective of generating just and sustainable forms of collective inhabiting to confront the pressures of accelerated urban development. For more information about the project click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Major support for Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.<\/p>\n

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Illustration\u00a0by Heidi Chisholm Cohabitation Strategies’ Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge Report was presented at a neighborhood convening today in South Philadelphia. The event was curated by the Philadelphia Mural Arts’ Restore Spaces Initiative and Lucia Sanrom\u00e1n, the project curator. The neighborhood convening\u00a0aimed to discuss the research process and findings, and explore with community stakeholders ways of\u00a0cooperation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cohstra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}