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DoTank is a public vessel for interdisciplinary exploration, engagement and enhancement of our community through means outside of the formal urban planning process. We make rapid and meaningful change by exploring and testing in our laboratory: Brooklyn, NY.

By catalyzing local intellectual capital, we carry out interventions meant to improve the built environment. We connect, capture, build, design, and produce, and above all else, we Do.
DoTank:Brooklyn Projects . Bring to Light - NYC's first ever Nuit Blanche
. DIY Urban Agriculture Skillshare
. Guerilla Bike Racks
. WeSee.Us Digital Community Billboard
. Shipping Pallet Adirondack Chairs and 'chair-bombing'
. New York City Streetlife Project
. Long Island Build a Better Burb submission (download PDF) Recognition 05.07.10 - Brooklyn 365 04.29.10 - Planetizen 04.25.10 - Dirty Pretty Things 04.23.10 - Pop Up Lunch 04.12.10 - Dirty Pretty Things 04.10.10 - FREEWilliamsburg 04.10.10 - The Village VOICE Blog 04.10.10 - NorthBird

House of Waris’ Tea Room, part of the Building Fashion project, brings respite and delight to a neglected crevice in Chelsea. 

More info here. 

Wario
Like the Crest Hardware Art Show, the NYC-based Laundromat Project is using laundromats to teach/make/show art while building community in unexpected locations. As their mission states: The Laundromat Project is a community-based non-profit arts organization committed to the well-being of people of color living on low incomes. Understanding that creativity is a central component of healthy human beings, vibrant neighborhoods, and thriving economies, we bring art programs to where our neighbors already are: the local laundromat. In this way, we aim to raise the quality of life in New York City for people whose incomes do not guarantee broad access to mainstream arts and cultural facilities.

Like the Crest Hardware Art Show, the NYC-based Laundromat Project is using laundromats to teach/make/show art while building community in unexpected locations. As their mission states:

The Laundromat Project is a community-based non-profit arts organization committed to the well-being of people of color living on low incomes. Understanding that creativity is a central component of healthy human beings, vibrant neighborhoods, and thriving economies, we bring art programs to where our neighbors already are: the local laundromat. In this way, we aim to raise the quality of life in New York City for people whose incomes do not guarantee broad access to mainstream arts and cultural facilities.

Steps Home from Keap Hope

As a means to give back to the community, Crest Fest, the 3rd Annual Art Show at Crest Hardware, is structured as a not-for-profit volunteer-only event. Proceeds from Crest Fest 2010 will support The City Reliquary Museum, located on Metropolitan Ave. This year’s program will include a long list of  DJs, a live music stage, local creative art and food vendors and additional involvement from surrounding businesses and community organizations.

This year’s event features work from over 150 artists in 10,000 sq/ft of indoor and outdoor space.

Check it out until July 30th!

558 Metropolitan Ave
(between Union Ave & Lorimer St)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
“ The only revolution that might work is a consumer revolution. We stop buying products produced by slave labor and stop working for companies that enslave us ”

- Anonymous
PlanningCorps Shin-pei Tsay of Transportation Alternatives and Frank Hebbert of the Regional Plan Association are taking a DoTank-approach to planning: gathering stakeholders and experts and working out real urban planning solutions. Their group is called PlanningCorps… a definite inspiration! PlanningCorps is also helping out DoTank:Brooklyn in our efforts to improve communities in Long Island for the Build a Better Burb contest.

PlanningCorps

Shin-pei Tsay of Transportation Alternatives and Frank Hebbert of the Regional Plan Association are taking a DoTank-approach to planning: gathering stakeholders and experts and working out real urban planning solutions. Their group is called PlanningCorps… a definite inspiration!

PlanningCorps is also helping out DoTank:Brooklyn in our efforts to improve communities in Long Island for the Build a Better Burb contest.
Our sentiments, exactly. 

Our sentiments, exactly. 

Dumpster Turned Pool on the Banks of the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn

Via: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/arts/design/20pool.html

Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea 
Human contact has been reduced or eliminated in most everyday activities, so I set up a sales contest between myself and a machine to see what would happen. I won the contest, selling five times more candy than the machine. I think I won because I was friendly and flexible and added a human touch - characteristics that are hard to find in a machine. - Paulina Lasa

Human contact has been reduced or eliminated in most everyday activities, so I set up a sales contest between myself and a machine to see what would happen. I won the contest, selling five times more candy than the machine. I think I won because I was friendly and flexible and added a human touch - characteristics that are hard to find in a machine.

- Paulina Lasa
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