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INASLA : Call for Volunteers and all Interested "Park Builders"


This year, INASLA is joining AFH-Indianapolis (Architecture for Humanity - Indianapolis Chapter : http://afh-indy.org ) and other Profit and Non-Profit organizations throughout our community to present PARK(ing) Day 2010 to the downtown population of our great city. For those that don't know, in short, PARK(ing) Day is a global event when concerned and forward thinking groups of citizens partner together to turn urban parking spaces into small, viable, community parks - for one entire day. AFH-Indy did it quite successfully, on their own, last year and has opened up the event to other interested groups in Indianapolis. INASLA will be joining the cause and "developing" our own parking space, downtown, in celebration of PARK(ing) Day 2010.

What: PARK(ing) Day 2010
When: Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: All Day - (6 am - 3 pm : plus or minus)
More Information: Click here

We're calling on INASLA membership to join forces for this great event. We will have one (1) downtown parking space that we will be able to turn into a "Park" for one day on Friday, September 17. It's an all day event, so, we'll need a few folks to be involved all day and some to take "shifts" in joining fellow LA's at the space downtown, promoting the event and promoting the cause.

Once we have a committed group of volunteers, we'll have a meeting to coordinate work shifts, material donation solicitation and other logistics for the event. We'll need you all to utilize your resources to help us collect materials for our park that willing vendors, nurseries and the like are willing to donate for the day. There will be no promotion opportunities for "for-profit" organizations, but, those folks that donate materials are more than welcome to join the volunteer effort and spend time in the space downtown.

We'll need a variety of materials including, containerized perennials and grasses, containerized sedges and rushes, containerized trees, pavers, benches and the like. The ExComm committe is currently trying to come up with a couple design options to present to the volunteer group, so that we have a direction for the design and layout of the parking space. The final "design" will be determined once we have a group of volunteers committed to the effort. It should be noted that AFH-Indy wants to utilize as much of the donated materials, as humanly possible, in order to put in an urban park at a Community Center at 23rd and Guilford, after the PARK(ing) day event is over. As you're talking to material donors, please mention this and see if they're willing to commit materials for permanent use in the community.

Please email Katie Clark or Ben Jennings to put your name on the volunteer list. It would be great to have a large and diverse group of volunteers from our membership, so, please feel free to commit sooner rather than later. For more information see the PARK(ing) Day website for more details about what the event entails.

Katie Clark (CClark@rwa.com)
Ben Jennings (
ben.jennings.design@gmail.com)

Thanks, in advance, for your help with this great event. The deadline for committing to volunteer is Noon on Friday, August 20th. After that, we'll have an organizational meeting to get ready for the September event.