The Bronx Is Blossoming
Students investigate green spaces in the South Bronx.
Who has access to nature in the city? Who decides?
In the summer of 2018, public high school students from around the South Bronx collaborated with CUP, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and Teaching Artist Hugo Rojas to investigate these questions.
Students photographed the neighborhood, created stop-motion animations, and stenciled the area with spray chalk. They conducted community surveys, interviewed key stakeholders, and used WCS’s design tool Visionmaker.nyc to create digital renderings of what nature in the Bronx could look like in the future.
The team used design and art to break down the information they gathered, and collaborated with designer Kevin Cadena to create a website to teach others what they learned.
See photos of the students in action here!
“I like being an interviewer. I like being in a position where I can…hear from a person whom you otherwise wouldn’t…[The interviews] gave you a sense of ’You’re doing this and you have a choice in this.”
— Blake Coniglio, student
Check out the Project
The webpages from The Bronx Is Blossoming.
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Project Collaborators
Teaching Artist and Designer
Hugo Rojas
Kevin Cadena
Students
Rayken Almonte, Ostin Bernardez, Michael Berrios, Blake Coniglio
Brianna Douglas, Nusrath Islam, Anyer Ogando, Fredelin Ortiz, Hector Peña, Luis Pinales, Tyreek Saunders
Special Thanks
Huong Dinh, Caroline Ellis, Katie Lan, Jeff Palladino, Jen Robinson, Emilio Vides-Curnen, Irina Vinnitskaya
Funding Support
This project was made possible by a grant awarded through the Mozilla Foundation’s Hive NYCInnovation Fund.