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Project 2: The intervention utilises touch
sensor technology to transform each cylinder Project 2: The Hangout was designed through a series of participatory design meetings with
into a playable, musical instrument. members of the Lower Ninth Ward community in New Orleans, LA.
Photo credit: Craig Stubing Photo credit: Michael Flanagan

Project 02: The Hangout inspiring creative space for them to simply colours as well when touched. These
The Hangout uses sight, sound, and hang out and enjoy their neighbours’ components allow the community to
touch to transform a once underutilised company. The space consists of a series manipulate and utilise the space as they
lot into an inclusive, safe, and inspiring of clusters of cylinders that offer seating want. A space that they could call their
space for the community. The project is and a space to gather. The design utilises own and feel is a positive representation
located in the Lower Ninth Ward in New touch sensor technology that transforms of their neighborhood.
Orleans, LA; a community still struggling each cylinder into a playable, musical
to get back on its feet since hurricane instrument. Project 03: Entangled
Katrina hit in 2005. When the user touches the tops of Entangled is a platform for residents
They worked with the community to the cylinders, a sound is made. At night, and visitors to learn, share, and explore
develop a space that would provide an each of the units illuminates and changes the history, stories, and music of Haitian
culture outside the Little Haiti Cultural
Complex’s doors. To create this project,
The Urban Conga worked closely with
the Little Haiti community and cultural
complex in Miami, FL through a series of
participatory design workshops.
The social bench system provides a
place for people to sit, listen, and converse
on the neighbourhood’s past, present, and
future and its Haitian influence. This is a
neighbourhood that is being drastically
changed. With this project, they wanted
to create an opportunity to showcase
and celebrate the culture that exists
within the neighbourhood and is being
pushed out. The intervention is made up
of three aluminum drums formed from
the traditional Rada Battery Haitian
drums. The drums are connected by an
undulating bench system that allows a
multitude of social seating possibilities.

Project 04: Shifting Totems
Shifting totems was designed with
Project 5: Why sit when you can
play is a musical bench system the Glenville Community in Cleveland,
designed to bring the everyday park OH, through a series of participatory
bench back to life.
Photo credit: The Urban Conga

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