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Productive Public Space Reception
Reception for Van Alen Fellows Chelina Odbert and Jennifer Toy, who studied alternative methods for poverty alleviation through public space in Kibera, Nairobi.
From the Van Alen Institute:
Productive Public Space: Exploring Hybridities in Informal Settlements explores alternative models for poverty alleviation, quality of life improvement, and environmental remediation through the production of public space in slums. Chelina Odbert and Jennifer Toy, founding members of the Kounkey Design Initiative (KDI), have spent over two years working with community members in the slum of Kibera, Nairobi, to design and implement the concept of productive public space – an open space, created in collaboration with its client community, that links physical improvements to self sustaining micro-enterprise activities.