Providing temporary public open space...one parking spot at a time.
Online registration is now closed. If you are among the 1st 50 attendees, you will receive a coupon tor a FREE hot dog to be redeemed at the Brady District PARK[ing] Day installation.
WHO: 2 + 2 = PARK[ing] Day in Tulsa. Two local design organizations; AIA Eastern Oklahoma and IIDA and two design firms; McFarland Davies Architects and Tepera Hood Design are sponsoring PARK[ing] Day installations throughout the city!
WHAT: PARK(ing) Day is a non-commercial project intended to promote creativity, civic engagement, critical thinking, social interaction, generosity and play. Originally created by REBAR (www.rebar.org), a San Francisco art and design collective, PARK(ing) Day is an annual, one-day global event during which individuals and groups transform parking spaces, parking lots (and other areas of the landscape built to store stationary motor vehicles), into places for people to congregate, socialize and play, to the exclusion of motor vehicles.
WHERE: Four (4) installation projects are open throughout the day, but feature special events in Tulsa's Brookside Design District, Brady District Cherry Street District, and on Route 66 during the times shown.
- Northeast corner of East Archer and North Boston in the Brady District sponsored by AIA Eastern Oklahoma's Young Architects Forum (YAF) . "If you build it, they will come" is YAF's mission in transforming surface parking lot spaces into a ballPARK at this location. Open from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM, YAF members will be staffing this location throughout the day. From 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, guests can purchase hot dogs from downtown Tulsa's most recognizable food cart, the Dog House. Better yet, the first fifty (50) guests to register online will receive a FREE hot dog! At NOON, Bob Jack with Manhattan Construction and a representative from the Tulsa Drillers will present a preview of ONEOK Field, scheduled to open in April 2010.
- 5:00 - 6:00 PM at 3638 South Peoria Avenue in the Brookside Design District sponsored by IIDA (International Interior Design Association). IIDA's Tulsa City Center celebrates PARK[ing] Day with a "Mad Hatter's Tea Party", transforming Urban Funishings' concrete patio into an inviting outdoor tea room. Enjoy unusual tea blends provided by Dragon Moon Tea Company and garden art supplied by Garden Deva while vying for great prizes!
- 6:00 - 7:00 PM - back to the NE corner of East Archer and North Boston in the Brady District sponsored by AIA Eastern Oklahoma's Young Architects Forum (YAF) . Guests will compete in an old-fashioned Home Run Derby with prizes awarded to the best sluggers!
- 7:00 - 8:00 PM at 1502 East 15th Street at the Coffee House on Cherry Street sponsored by AIA Eastern Oklahoma's Committee on the Environment (COTE) and McFarland Davies Architects. Located at the corner of East 15th Street and South Rockford Avenue, this installation features two (2) 30-gallon trees on a Zoysia grass lawn and Cherry Street giveaways.
- 8:00 - 11:00 PM at 1347 East 11th Street on Route 66 sponsored by Tepera Hood Design features a unique installation transforming a former gasoline island into an urban park setting complete with a "forest canopy". Owners Shane Hood, Assoc. AIA and Mary Jones, Assoc. AIA invite you to celebrate the grand opening of their design studio on historic Route 66 with music and food served throughout the evening.
T-Town Trolley will be operating between Downtown Tulsa, Cherry Street, Route 11, and Brookside districts from 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM.
WHY: In 2007, Tulsa’s first PARK(ing) Day installation was organized by Selser Schaefer Architects and a single parking space in an Uptown Tulsa parking lot was transformed into a temporary public park. In 2008, AIA Eastern Oklahoma’s Young Architects Forum and SR Hughes converted parking spaces in the Brookside Design District into an outdoor living environment. In 2009, the installations multiplied the number of temporary parks in Tulsa through the combined efforts of artists, activists, and citizens drawing attention to how the city’s urban space is allocated and used.
With special appreciation to 2009 PARK[ing] Day chair, Nick Rhoades, Assoc. AIA!
http://www.iida-tx-ok.org/calendars.html#tulsa
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