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Eleventh and final of our series of volunteer committee spotlights: the Village of Ossining’s newest volunteer board – The Placemaking Committee:
You might not be familiar with the term placemaking. Put simply, it describes a people-centered approach to shaping public spaces. In other words, placemaking is a collaborative process where the community reimagines and reinvents various places that might be overlooked. For example, a large blank wall on the side of a building could be transformed by a colorful mural, a barren patch of land could become a pollinator garden, or a bus stop could become an engaging and comfortable place to sit. These are just a few ways the Ossining Placemaking Committee hopes to transform our Village--and bring people together. The Placemaking Committee includes artists, urban planners, horticulturalists, project managers, and other talented individuals.
Here are some of the goals of Ossining’s Placemaking Committee:
- Spark public discourse about past and present public spaces
- Create beauty and delight and encourage public use of outdoor spaces
- Engender civic pride that highlights the cross-cultural strengths of the community
- Support community health and safety in public outdoor spaces
- Grow social justice by creating public spaces that support Ossining’s diverse community
- Build or improve public spaces
- Catalyze economic development that is integrated with the other placemaking goals
- Promote environmental sustainability as a value in the prioritization of placemaking projects.
- Nurture an authentic sense of place by integrating history into the Committee's placemaking projects.
Click here to email the PM committee: placemakingcommittee@villageofossining.org
Click here to view the Placemaking Committee
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