A timeline that captures the participatory design process and the complex process of designing and building capital projects in NYC.
The timeline gives context to Brooklyn Public Library Sunset Park's brand new, soon to be finished building and the library that was built for the community in the interim. It serves as a road map and key to the exhibit and highlights collaborators who have contributed along the way.
The timeline gives context to Brooklyn Public Library Sunset Park's brand new, soon to be finished building and the library that was built for the community in the interim. It serves as a road map and key to the exhibit and highlights collaborators who have contributed along the way.
Contributions
Research
Design
Installation
Tools
Rhino
Illustrator
Sharpie + Ruler
Research
Design
Installation
Tools
Rhino
Illustrator
Sharpie + Ruler
Research was collected and pieced together through community board meeting notes, public building permit notices, news articles and social media. The findings were combined into a comprehensive timeline of all related events, seen below.
After deeply researching the events and players involved in the conception and
building of Brooklyn Public Library’s new Sunset Park Branch, sketching was
used to explore various diagram types. Starting with the concept of a network diagram with visual inspirations from artists like Mark Lombardi and Andrea Geyer’s piece of work Revolt, They
Said (2015).
Emerging from the network diagram,
a more traditional timeline approach was determined as the most informative route to specifically
guide users through the content and make key connections to the other parts of
the exhibit.
Board game precedents like Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders, served as useful references during the iterative process helping inform how to logically arrange content. Later iterations were graphically influenced by various city transportation maps including NYC’s MTA, Paris’s metro map, DC’s metro map.