More than 40 of our Landscape Architecture students transformed public parking spaces in Auckland’s CBD on Friday in celebration of international PARK(ing) Day – an initiative to promote the re-thinking of public space. The idea is to transform parking bays into liveable and creative spaces, such as mini-parks, playgrounds, reading rooms and workspaces. Since 2005, this urban activism movement has not only successfully communicated the importance of quality public space to the masses, but also resulted in permanent replacement of car parks with public parks.
Landscape Architecture lecturer, Daniel Irving is pictured second from the left
The first, second, third and fourth year students in Landscape Architecture, under the supervision of Lecturer and Academic Leader Dan Irving, partnered with local design firms to create and install PARK-lets in around a dozen carparks in central Auckland, including Tyler Street, High Street, Queen Street, Shortland Street and Karangahape Road.
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