Youth placemaking through light

Our
proposal

We are a collective working with youth to build accessible, inclusive neighborhoods through artistic lighting, fostering identity expression and community development.

Our goal is to activate public spaces at night, creating dynamic and safe gathering spaces.

Our approach

WHAT DO WE DO?

Placemaking for every context.

Collaborative process to reimagine, reinvent and regenerate underused spaces in neighborhoods to create community.

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WHO DO WE DO IT WITH?

With youth as agents of change.

Builders of safe and inclusive places that contribute to the development of personal and neighborhood identity.

WHY DO WE DO IT?

Because of the benefits of the appropriation of the night and

public spaces.

With active places and more eyes on the street, ccrime and violence are reduced while revitalizing economies and local nightlife dynamics.

HOW DO WE DO IT?

With a methodology of participatory experimentation in which light becomes an artistic tool of expression.

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in cities, people with lower income has 6 times less access to public spaces than those with higher income.

Our work

We collaborate with youth living in neighborhoods with underused and unsafe public spaces, empowering them to create vibrant, artistic places that come alive at night, and strengthen the community’s social cohesion, its economy and culture.

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