cityWorks
CityWorks is a participatory design studio that brings community together to shape public space. Our previous CityWorks program invited local artists and makers to submit proposals for a temporary public design project along the downtown Providence Riverwalk that explored themes of community resilience, climate change, and placebased history. We received a highly competitive group of thought provoking submissions in response to our Call for Proposals. The 2018-19 winning proposal was Living Edge, by Adam E. Anderson of Design Under Sky, which was completed in July 2019, received an award from the the Providence Preservation Society and was featured in Providence Monthly.
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LIVING EDGE
Commissioned by our 2019 CityWorks Collective and designed by Adam E. Anderson at Design Under Sky, Living Edge is located at a site along the eastern bank of the Providence River bordering South Water Street. Living Edge creates a tranquil gathering space while re-introducing some of the lost wilderness of this site’s pre-industrial past and restoring native tree species and meadow to the water’s edge. We believe this place will invite reflection on the impacts of climate change, while sharing a vision of past and future that is restorative and hopeful.
CITYWORKS Collective Cohort 2018-2019
This cohort was led by Manuel Cordero Alvarado and Bryce DuBois.
Brant Gawrys
Jessica Jennings
Katie Murphy
C.J. Opperthauser
Devon Weston
Virginia Badgett
Jazandra Barros
Jerry Batista
Susan Parsons
Sagree Sharma
Ania Szemiot
Isabelle Yisak
Kristina Brown
William Cornwall
Joshua Coroa
Kaitlin DeGregorio
This project was made possible in part by a Rhode Island Foundation Community Grant.
