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PROFILE
About The Urban Conga - Page 68 play than a year of conversation,” and
The Urban Conga is an international those are the exact sort of moments
multidisciplinary design studio based their design studio strives to create for
in Brooklyn, NY. Their work is focused all demographics. They are creating
on sparking community activity and opportunities that bridge divides and
social interaction through open-ended begin to break inequities within the
play. They achieve this by working with public and private realm. Sparking ever-
communities through participatory changing moments that keep inviting
design methodologies to create inclusive, people back to engage with the work, the
engaging, and site-specific work that surrounding environment, and each other
sparks creativity, exploration, and in new and different ways.
free-choice learning within the built Their work becomes multifunctional
environment. platforms for people to share, listen, and
As Plato once said, “You can discover learn about their neighbourhood and
more about a person in an hour of neighbours.
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