WNY Sustainable Energy Association Paul Reitan Speaker Series presents
Pop Up Park Project Presentation
With Joy Kuebler (landscape architect), Catherine Faust (architect), & Melissa Leopard (educator)
Free & Open to the Public
WHAT/WHY: Buffalo-based professionals landscape architect Joy Kuebler, architect Catherine Faust and educator Melissa Leopard have spearheaded the Pop Up Park Project. This innovative endeavor is a hands-on project that is targeted for middle school students. The goal of the project is to get youth outside as they design and build temporary play structures in a single afternoon. The Pop Up Park project is a hybrid of the Gever Tully Tinkering School and the Adventure Playgrounds that sprung out of the destruction of London after World War II. The goal for Buffalo’s first Pop Up Park is to empower kids to play, to think and build creatively from recycled materials and to offer another creative use for the vacant parcels in our City.
This Pop Up Park project will provide a unique play experience, as it enables middle school children to tinker and build their own playground for a day in a collaborative environment with community supervision and endorsement. There will be 45 participants spread over 3 sites for the initial Pop Up Park. This Pop Up Park project slated for June 9th hopes to be a proto-type for future play events in the City of Buffalo.
