Building Shells: Building Community in Newburgh, NY
A community toolkit
Research and Project Lead:
The Fullerton Center
Art Direction and Design:
As the Crow Walks
Illustration:
Genevieve Lacroix
Translation into Spanish:
Mariella Salazar
Printed foldout on newsprint
This bilingual community toolkit aims to equip citizens with knowledge about building shells: uninhabitable buildings that lack floor plates and/or roofs due to fire, water damage, neglect, etc. This renegade typology ends up creating holes in the fabric of a vibrant city block.
The toolkit illuminates why people should care about this issue and the benefits to come from collective action. Action items for intervening in the trajectory of a building on the decline are organized into a matrix along axes of least effort ↔ most effort and city action ↔ community action.
This project was made possible through a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
