You take over a parking stall, plug the meter with quarters and turn it into a park for the day. Or an office space. Or a music venue. Or a picnic area. Or a gaming space. Or a...
This year, we took over 3 parking stalls in total
“We have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. We have our priorities the wrong way around (…) We are killing our cities.”
PARK(ing) DAY is a unique and exciting opportunity to engage in the ongoing dialog around how our cities are designed and built. It began as a guerilla art project and act of design activism in a single parking space, and has grown into a global movement, inspiring the creation of “parklets” and COVID-era “streeteries” in cities across the United States and beyond.
Erik Hagen original sketch idea
The finished product, unitized and easily moveable
Every year in September, the world celebrates Park(ing) Day, the day when people around the globe will repurpose street parking spaces into tiny parks and places for art, play, and activism.
Morgan Monson & Oashan Shrestha enjoying the entertainment
This year we teamed up with our land use planners and landscape architects at Rodney Evans & Partners and had Idaho Smart Growth & Idaho Walk Bike Alliance join in, bringing AARP & the American Heart Association. Games were provided by the Downtown Boise Association. Music by Jazzasauraus (who you may hear on random morning on 8th Street). Thank you to everyone who stopped by and joined us!
Kayla Duclos chatting it up with Steven McKeown and Lily Norwood of RE&P