In November of 2025, Design Trust launched a Design Ideas Competition in collaboration with Van Cortlandt Park Alliance to reimagine an Enslaved African Burial Ground in the Bronx. Following a series of events with the community, Reimagining the Enslaved African Burial Ground at Van Cortlandt Park seeks to honor and memorialize the people who lived and worked in VCP, and invites other sites of memory across the city to deeply reflect and invest in ways to ensure the sacred spaces that exist on their lands are not forgotten. 

This series explores other reimagined public spaces across the five boroughs, asking the question of what it means to memorialize a space and how we can pay tribute to the lives of people who contributed to the layout of public space as we know it.