As a part of studying the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront communities, my team based our research on the historically disinvented Red Hook, community district 5. A key theme that kept emerging from our fieldwork is the resiliency efforts post superstorm SANDY. This research looks at the investments in recovery and resiliency efforts post sandy in Red Hook.
RESILIENCY
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RED HOOK
Project
goal
The goal of the project was to strengthen the social resilience in disinvented neighborhoods. Although state funds and resiliency efforts are channeled towards physical infrastructure post-disaster, we encountered a broken social infrastructure through our conversations with the community partners. The toolkit aimed to restitch the broken bonds between young adults and parents, teachers and students, police, and youth through an intentional dialogue tool.
Project
Process
A recurring challenge to build grassroots social resilience in Red Hook was miscommunications, misunderstandings, and generational gap between baby boomers and Millenials. To cater to this specific audience we created a tool called Lets Talk