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Street Planters for Downtown
6 weeks
Urban Strategy, Interface Design
In collaboration with Devin Vowels
Role: Data Schematic Design, Concept Planning, Figma Interface Design
We take for granted a lot of the materials, environments, and interactions we have within an urban space. To bridge this gap, this web prototype uses the humble street planter as a tool to encourage more interactions among community members.
This project was selected as part of the 2024 Taubman Student Awards Exhibition and featured on the 2025 Climate Futures Publication.
How can we build community interactions on the street-level?
When we interact with street planters, we become aware of the space and the environment we exist in. To reimagine how our community functions— one with enriched interactions— we want to equalize the platform of different actors within an urban space. This isn’t limited just to the human actors, but also the space’s ecological and economic actors as well.
To make something for the community by the community, we start with recognizing the other actors that share our space. From this recognition, we hope to encourage a more vivid and diverse lifestyle.
> Approach
The schema below displays the variables (human, ecological, and built) used to calculate and analyze the suitability of the planter design.
Each decision made regarding the planter’s design will be scored according to the sorted list of prioirities (see next section), and the project owner will be able to assess the impacts of their design with regards to the space the project occupies.