Located in Brooklyn’s most diverse neighborhoods, Public School 152/315 Community Playground is a vibrant model of sustainable, equitable community-led design. An underutilized asphalt schoolyard was transformed into a dynamic new community park through a unique participatory design process. This collaborative effort partnered landscape architects and environmental educators with students, teachers and community stakeholders in a three-month design process allowing this neighborhood to be active participants in the design of their new park. This new playground manages a million gallons of stormwater annually through learning gardens, outdoor classrooms, permeable pavers and a synthetic turf field that captures and infiltrates stormwater. This participatory design inspires the next generation of environmental stewards as students become the designers, learning about sustainable and resilient design.

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This project received the 2021Honor Award for Community Impact by the American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter, and was featured on the cover of Landscape Architecture Specifier News.