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Teen Team
Teen Team ✊🏽 | Eli, B, Nico, Alan, Eyasu, Matt, Samadhi, Cindy, GG, Jeff, Will, Helen not pictured: Cheryl & Amara
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SHADE sits at the intersection two public health trends. Teen mental health is falling while urban temperatures are rising.

SHADE A temporary outdoor cooling shelter for teens by teens.

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📢 Matt CRLS ‘25, Samadhi CRLS ‘24, & Team 📢

We are SHADE

“We are an organization of youth creating a community for teens by teens. Our community is built around a temporary summer place we are creating at Donnelly Field. SHADE is a safe hangout spot for teens to come by, find friends, make new ones, and have a good time. SHADE is made possible through Cambridge’s Shade is Social Justice public art competition.

Why Shade

“We are trying to address the decline in teens’ mental health, and overall get teenagers outside in a cool 🧊 comfy place, doing things together. “Teens nowadays are faced with feeling unwanted, unwelcomed, and/or excluded. We can change that by solving our problems for ourselves. ”Adults are always the ones controlling the money where it goes, and how it’s used to solve our problems. We listen to adults. But decisions to fund our peers and our ideas are ultimately made by youth-consensus. At the end of the day, nobody knows teens better than teens.“
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Who’s Helping

Left to Right:
Left to Right: Jeff Goldenson, Levi Bedall, Amon Millner, Debbie Bonilla, Will Adams, Kyrk Morris, Kini Udovicki. Not pictured: August Lehrecke, Matt Muller (Photography: Matteo Millner)
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Meet the Adult Team

We’re the group of organizations, organizers, creatives, and committed youth collaborators making empowering spaces for our youth to thrive.

Equity Roadmap / Friday Night Hype - Safe spaces for our most vulnerable students, to participate in educational and therapeutic activities through mentorship with positive role models/mentors

  • Debbie Bonilla
  • Kini Udovicki
  • Will Adams

Pneuhaus - bringing the art, craft, and wonder of inflatable and high-performance textile artifacts & experiences

  • Levi Bedall
  • Matt Muller
  • August Lehrecke

Citizens of the World - Black and Brown youth engagement, restorative justice, and Historically Black College and University (HBCU) tours

  • Kyrk Morris

Olin College - bringing college students to inspire, learn from, and create alongside community members

  • Amon Millner

Cambridge Public Health Department - "If we are telling youth to say NO to substances, what are we giving them to say YES to?", Connor Epsteinkraus

  • Sarah Lincoln
  • Connor Epsteinkraus

Jen Lee - designer and creative for the people

Buildingways - hands-on, project-based civics, STEM, and city building with youth

  • Jeff Goldenson

The Site

Location: Donnelly Field, Cambridge, MA

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📍🗺️  Google Maps link for Mobile 🗺️📍

Partners

  • Cambridge Arts Department, public art grant recipient ($27,000)
  • Cambridge Public Health Department, teen mental health grant Recipient ($2,000)
  • Cambridge Housing Authority, Work Force Youth Work Site, ($500)
  • Massachusetts Department of Public Health (CFDA# 93.959), support through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) of the Federal Government’s Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block grant ($5500)
  • Cambridge Public School Department, Summer Co-Directors ($14,000)
  • Cambridge Department of Human Service Programs, Mayors’ Summer Youth Employment coverage ($12,500)
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Design Reference & Explorations

PDF of final Scaffolding

5_20.pdf3589.3KB

Concepts | November 28

idea-inventory-small.pdf1262.8KB

References & Inspiration

https://file.notion.so/f/f/83462aab-fe02-420f-8cbd-da8c167606f4/68b2e332-f51e-4516-bbee-f497241823e3/architectural_projectsdetails-references-small.pdf?id=cc24fe7b-17e7-4fb7-93ee-0b2870dbceaf&table=block&spaceId=83462aab-fe02-420f-8cbd-da8c167606f4&expirationTimestamp=1703109600000&signature=LOwESa0q3WPVUK24Oj3Mto6mc1sr9FFE9I4kG5QaA5g&downloadName=architectural_projects%2Bdetails-references-small.pdf
architectural_projects+details-references-small.pdf1944.4KB

Still very early in the process, we are hoping to develop v.01 of an Open Source Shade System. Something, with a minimal environmental footprint, that any large group of people can assemble, anywhere it’s hot.

  • Skin - the shade: textiles (patterns to make them)
  • Bones - the structure: scaffolding (sourcing, designing, anchoring, and insuring)
  • Organs - the services: to be designed 🫁 air, 💦 water (drinking/cooling spray nozzles), ⚡️ power
Matt Muller, Pneuhaus, 10/12/23
Matt Muller, Pneuhaus, 10/12/23
Matt Muller, Pneuhaus, 10/12/23
Matt Muller, Pneuhaus, 10/12/23
Remaking Education (2019), An Olin College, Emerson College, and WBUR production @ The Paramount, Boston. Jeff Goldenson/Buildingways led black box theater installation (above). (photography:
Remaking Education (2019), An Olin College, Emerson College, and WBUR production @ The Paramount, Boston. Jeff Goldenson/Buildingways led black box theater installation (above). (photography: Leise Jones Photography)

Early Blue Sky Brainstorm

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Bibliography

  1. Teens & Public Space
    1. The Yes Loitering Project
    2. "Yes Sitting, Yes Skating, Yes Music" Yes Loitering Project, Urban Omnibus, 2018
  2. Activism and Advocacy
    1. “What is Loitering, Really?” (a visual history) Bloomberg City Lab
    2. “Youth Activist Toolkit” advocatesforyouth.org
  3. Spaces/Architecture
    1. Jan Kattein Architects
    2. raumlaborberlin
    3. selgascano
    4. Centre Pompidou
    5. The Fun Palace Cedric Price and Joan Littlewood
      6. TheFunPalace.pdf2307.8KB
  4. Scaffolding Resources
    1. Seacoast Scaffold, our scaffolding partners
    2. Materials
      3. seacost-catalog-ring-pole.pdf1373.1KB
  5. Design for a Fair: The United States Pavilion at Expo '67 Montreal

    6. Architecture: Peter Chermayeff, Cambridge Seven Architects, Buckminster Fuller and Associates

    Environment & Supergraphics: Ivan Chermayeff

  6. The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 12, No. 3, Architecture/Environment (Spring, 1968), pp. 127-134
  7. The Meanwhile City https://meanwhilecity.milk.sk/
    8. Meanwhile-City_by-Milk_small.pdf10154.5KB
  8. To dive into visual references & inspiration, see visual gallery from ArchDaily of scaffolding and inflatable projects.
    9. https://my.archdaily.com/us/@jeff-goldenson/folders/shade-is-social-justice-4975880?ad_source=myad_folders&ad_medium=folder-open

Connect

Jeff Goldenson | jeff@buildingways.com | 617.909.2917

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Archive

preliminary_site_diagram.pdf2193.8KB
grid-sketch.pdf1594.7KB
  1. ☀️ Solar
    1. The Solar Movement
    2. Marjan Van Aubel Studio
    3. Pauline van Dongen
  2. Trees & Nature
    1. Trees as Infrastructure, Dark Matter Labs
    2. The Restorative Benefits of Nature: Toward an Integrative Framework
      3. psychology-nature.pdf1650.0KB