A place-making collaboration between the University of Houston Architecture & Graphic Design students, the project is a series of creative interventions & installations that activate Jensen Drive. This specific intervention is a swap site, with the idea of taking something old & turning it into something new. The swap sites themselves are abandoned newspaper dispensers, re-designed into something more beautiful. The object is to have a box of books & a box of toys for the community to “take one & leave one” for someone else.
2020Postponed due to COVID-19
Proposal: Swap sites at the New Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church. There will be two swap boxes–one for books and one for toys. The idea is for people to “take one and leave one.” For example, someone can bring a book to the sit, and they can choose one that is already in there. This will provide a way for the community to swap items and receive new ones while also giving back to each other or to those in need.
Designers Sam Nguyen Hayley Nevot Jodi-Ann Clarke Regan Chen