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11 Arts & Innovation<br />
Overview:<br />
Current Conditions:<br />
Opportunity:<br />
Innovative art can be a powerful tool in community based urban<br />
design. Part of the <strong>Brooklyn</strong> <strong>Strand</strong> Action Plan is to bolsters largescale<br />
concept vision with an actionable arts initiative.<br />
There are a number of recent public art initiatives in and around Downtown<br />
<strong>Brooklyn</strong> Today, including Hank Willis Thomas’ ‘Truth Booth’, Steve Powers’<br />
‘Love Letter to <strong>Brooklyn</strong>’ and Jeppe Hein’s ‘Please Touch the Art’.<br />
SUPERFLEX, a Danish artists’ group, specializing in community-based, urban<br />
arts initiatives, is working closely with local communities to develop art<br />
proposals for several <strong>Strand</strong> sites called ‘The Streets are Lava’. ‘The Streets<br />
are Lava’ is a short term, large-scale public art installation plan meant to better<br />
connect Downtown <strong>Brooklyn</strong> neighborhoods for local communities, to animate<br />
and provide better access to underused public spaces and to make visible the<br />
potential of the <strong>Brooklyn</strong> <strong>Strand</strong> to a larger audience. Improved access will<br />
be created through a system of connectors or ‘lava’ (bridge, walkways, street<br />
crossings, etc.). SUPERFLEX is actively involved in the <strong>Strand</strong> community<br />
outreach effort; as such, any programming associated to ‘The Streets are Lava’<br />
will be drawn directly from community feedback and local interest groups.<br />
<strong>Brooklyn</strong> <strong>Strand</strong> Urban Design Action Plan — May 2016<br />
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