Placemake the Vote
Location
Long Beach, CA
timeline
2016
Role
Collaborator
Leader
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City Fabrick was a winner of the Knight Foundation’s 2016 Knight Cities Challenge, which awards innovative projects that create stronger communities and spaces that spur learning, engagement, and growth.
Place Make the Vote applied placemaking and tactical urbanism principles as tools for civic engagement during the 2016 Primary and General Elections by creating pop-up plazas at a half dozen polling sites across Long Beach. Learn more about Place Make the Vote at www.placemakethevote.com.
Urban + Systems
Planning + Policy
Building + Â Interior
Landscape Architecture
Graphic
Engagement
City Fabrick led the design and programming for several polling sites throughout Long Beach that historically have had significant low voter turnout. PMTV was successful in attracting people to participate in the voting process with substantial gains in voter participation at each of the participating polling sites relative to overall turnout. As a result, City Fabrick developed the Place Make the Vote Toolkit for other communities to deploy at their voting sites, including a how-to manual, graphic templates, and sourcing for material and vendors.
