The latest edition of our Public Space newsletter features updates on Design Trust projects, programs, and events.

Summer is in full swing! Here’s a look back at June and ahead through July.

• Bronx community members celebrated Juneteenth at Van Cortlandt Park, starting with a libation ceremony at the Enslaved African Burial Ground. The event was part of an ongoing partnership between the Design Trust and Van Cortlandt Park Alliance to reimagine a memorial honoring the enslaved African people who built much of Van Cortlandt Park’s southwestern quadrant.

• The Design Trust community grew in June–Giuliana Tepedino joins from CUNY Macaulay Honors College through our New York: City Designed program, and Matthew Franchi joins the Untaped project as a Cornell PiTech Impact Fellow. 

• Pride month is over, but education on queer legacies and impact in NYC’s public spaces is available year round. Here are five sources.

• There’s still two weeks left to view this year’s Photo Urbanism exhibit, Desire Lines and Daylighting, for free, at Pier 57’s Living Room in Hudson River Park. Students of this summer’s youth photography workshops led by Photo Urbanism fellow Nathan Kensinger will have their work featured in an upcoming digital exhibition.

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