NEWS
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CONVERSATION with Silvia Acosta:
Merging Practice with Study
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Rhode Island School of Design’s Professor of Architecture, Silvia Acosta, encourages students to see the integration of architecture with the needs of the community through hands-on projects like Blossom, a new community garden.
>> Read the Conversation. (PDF)
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Walker Center for Ecumenical Exchange
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May 2012 – Thanks to the generosity of McKinney Brothers Tree Services, the canopies of many mature trees at the Walker Center for Ecumenical Exchange, a new COGdesign client, received long overdue maintenance!
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New Raised Beds for Comfortable Planting
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April 2012 – COGdesign’s Nursery Garden now offers wheelchair accessible planting beds to volunteers! Thanks to Pine Street Inn’s Handy Works, a social venture program, three sturdy and elegant raised beds were designed, constructed, and installed as a new feature in the garden. The raised planters offer an alternative to gardening volunteers in wheelchairs or those gardeners for whom bending and stooping is challenging. The Nursery Garden is a source of hardy, ornamental plant material destined for community projects on a shoestring budget.
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Concord Prison Outreach
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March-April 2012 – A team of COG designers, Karen Longeteig, Susan Balleza, and Anne Smith, collaborated with Concord Prison Outreach, Inc. to enrich a horticulture program behind bars. The designers offered sessions to inmates in site analysis, measuring, design principles, and model-making. Under the direction of Correction Officers, inmates maintain the prison grounds and plant gardens.
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Vital Spaces, Vibrant Lives
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March 2012 – An audience of neighbors, designers, local elected officials, and green space advocates gathered in the Church Park Apartments Penthouse to hear a panel discussion about developing a new design concept for Symphony Park in the Fenway neighborhood. Organized by COGdesign and the Fenway Civic Association; sponsored by the New England Landscape Design and History Association (NELDHA).
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In the Garden Online Auction
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Thank you to all the donors and bidders for another great Online Auction!
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Celebrating 15 Years of Greening Communities
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Mitchell School Courtyard design and illustration by Alice Evans
During 2012, join COGdesign in a retrospective look at
the process and outcome of community greening projects
– developing partnerships, supporting clients'
missions, institutionalizing use and maintenance,
hearing from the users.
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Schedule of Events (PDF)
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CONVERSATION with Two Authors about One Writer's Garden
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Coauthors Jane Roy Brown and Susan Haltom talk about writing One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place and about Miss Welty's passionate connection to her garden in Jackson, Mississippi – a source of inspiration and refuge. The garden’s development parallels early 20th century movements for women’s independence and useful enterprise.
>> Read the CONVERSATION
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Roxbury Y Garden Turns Green
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September 2011 – Staff and volunteers from the Roxbury YMCA, COGdesign, and the local community planted hundreds of leafy trees, shrubs, and perennials to further the vision of a new green space in this urban neighborhood. The ribbon cutting will be part of the May Fair in the garden!
>> Project Sheet
>> Help Support the Garden
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CONVERSATION with the High Line’s
Melissa Fisher
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Not so long ago, some NYC residents thought an old, rusted rail line, running above the meat packing district, was an eyesore. Now, it’s a beloved and very high profile public park in Manhattan. Melissa Fisher, High Line Director of Horticulture and Park Operations, coordinates the complexities of this magical place!
>> Conversation with Melissa Fisher
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Roxbury Y Groundbreaking
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July – August 2011 – The teens breaking ground for the new Roxbury Y garden had a challenging task, but A Yard and A Half Landscaping made short shrift of installing the garden’s structure! Plants arrive in September.
Your $10 contribution will help plant the garden!
>> Support a square foot
>> Project Sheet
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Shrubbery Planted at Dorchester Historical Society
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June 2011 – A new phase of the COG-designed master plan for the Dorchester Historical Society (DHS) was planted this summer by COGdesign Planting Brigade’s horticultural trainees. A collection of mixed shrubs, or Shrubbery, popular during the 19th century, now defines an interpretive area of the DHS landscape. COG’s designers Carolyn Cooney and Jane Coutre selected era-appropriate plant material with ornamental features to enhance the visitors’ experience.
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Project Sheet
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Gore Place Farm in 21st Century
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May 2011 – COG’s designer Danielle Desilets was asked by Gore Place staff to “provide a place to experience the history of the estate and to re-establish a connection with the land” belonging to this federal era estate on the Waltham/Watertown border. Her resulting master plan for the estate’s four acres of farmland separates contemporary farming practices from the areas of historical interpretation, provides some privacy for the resident farmer, and defines new access points and patterns for visitors.
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Project Sheet
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Symphony Park Concept Approved
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February 2011 – After a series of community meetings and Boston Parks Department design review, the Fenway Civic Association (FCA) has a new concept for improving the usability and appearance of Symphony Park. According to FCA member Marie Fukuda, COG’s designers Jon Pate and Lisa Esterrich developed a concept for the park that was sensitive to the needs of the neighbors, including students and a large elderly population, and addressed improved access for all.
> Project Sheet
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Embassy Park Design Competition
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Professional 1st Place: Herrera Nielsen Design, Brooklyn, NY
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Please see EVENTS &
NEWS for more special project events!
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