Stephen Mankouche

Project Reach – the Farm: Greening Strategies for Empowering Marginalized Urban Youth

The Project Reach team is collaborating on the design of a master plan to improve ‘The Farm’, a small space located in the Catskills that will be transformed into a retreat facility. By engaging and involving the Project Reach youth in the creation and development of the spatial vision for the facility, the team will forge an intergenerational partnership of young people and adults for the cross-community building of a safe, healthy, sustainable environment that the young people can experience. Through a series of workshops, project outcomes will include a proposal for the redesigning of the Catskill historic farm into a sustainable retreat facility, and the publishing of a small pamphlet for dissemination to city youth organizations and the broader architectural community.