Design For Play

Image credit: PLAY + PAINT by Anoushaé Eirabie & Yaxin Jiangr

The Fullerton Center was excited to be the fiscal sponsor for Design For Play — an ideas competition for how to transform Newburgh’s streets so that children, young and old, can safely play, learn, socialize and have fun in Summer 2020, and beyond. We had an incredible response to the competition and received over 70 proposals with ideas ranging in scale from individual play elements to systems that would transform entire blocks. Three winning design teams were chosen by a diverse Jury for their creative response to this challenge. To date, two of the three designs have been built in Newburgh. For more information about the competition and to see all the design entries, please click here.

This competition was a community effort co-organized by Design For Six Feet, the Awesome Newburgh Foundation, the City of Newburgh, Columbia GSAPP Hudson Valley Initiative, Dept of Small Interventions, The Fullerton Center, and the Newburgh Armory Unity Center. We would like to thank the Williams Legacy Foundation and the J.M. Kaplan Fund for providing key financial support to make this competition possible — and get Newburgh playing again!