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Meantime Activation Toolkit

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View of vacant factory activation with Meantime Velocities programming. (Photo: Brian Phillips).

Driven by the idea that vibrant street activity is crucial to the health and life of cities, Meantime seeks to encourage unexpected and undervalued sources of urban retail, performance and creative activation by tweaking the relationship between owners, tenants and vacant space. By filling vacant storefront spaces with short-term programming by local early-stage entrepreneurs, artists, and makers, Meantime allows for activation of urban environments and provides economic development benefits to neighborhoods. The Meantime Activation Toolkit will be a multi-platform, step-by-step guide to Meantime programming that compiles and visualizes the complex, disaggregated information about obtaining and using spaces in a city. This user-friendly product aimed at owners, makers and community groups will present a replicable strategy to activate underutilized commercial storefronts in their own communities using the Meantime system.

  • 2023
  • Graduate Department of Architecture
  • Presenting Art Grant
  • Project Support
  • Weitzman School of Design

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John McInerney (he/him)
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Associate Director
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Elizabeth Shaw (she/her)
Administrative Assistant
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