Design: SD Yankton

Design: SD was a program that aimed to help small towns shape their future through design. I was asked to be a part of the 16 person team working in downtown Yankton, aka the Meridian District. The three day charrette is made up of three parts: learning studio, design studio, and presentation studio. The first day is spent learning from local community residents about their dreams and visions for the future. The design team works with the community members to generate visual solutions during design studio that can be presented on the final day during presentation studio. My contribution to the event was organizing and designing two pop-up cafe spaces in existing on-street parking spaces, a keyboard crosswalk, and live music with ice cream to program the new spaces.