ABOUT

Design For Six Feet is a women-led urban design collaborative. We believe in co-creation, knowledge sharing, and activism.

What started as a crowd-sourced initiative on Instagram to share ideas about how to rethink urban life in response to COVID-19, has grown into a collaborative of urban designers, architects, landscape architects, planners, and preservationists working on projects where people can literally vote with their feet. We have partnered with cities -- big and small -- to experiment with new ways we can alter public space for the benefit of all, and, in doing so, pave the way for long-term change, new spaces and new spatial practices.

We value going back and forth between the “just do it” mode of immediate action and the comprehensively developed vision for a better future -- the six feet mock-up and the 6,000 feet neighborhood. But, it is especially the “just do it” attitude, driven by crisis, that has shown all of us that we can change.

We see our work as open-source design: We want to share our ideas and we welcome everyone to reuse or adapt our resources to help their own communities. We continue to seek new design collaborators, community partnerships and projects. Tell us who, what, where, when, or how you would like to DESIGN FOR. 

Community Partners

We design with community-based partners, not for them. We believe that the inherent expertise each partner can bring to a project is invaluable and necessary for project development and its long-term sustainability. 

A special thanks to our 2020 project partners: Awesome Newburgh, the City of Hudson, the City of Newburgh, Columbia GSAPP Hudson Valley Initiative, Dept of Small Interventions, Fullerton Center, Future Hudson, Greater Newburgh Parks Conservancy, Hudson Hall, Newburgh Armory Unity Center, Newburgh Free Library, and Safe Harbors of the Hudson, with support from the Columbia Economic Development Corporation, The J.M. Kaplan Fund, The Spark of Hudson, and The Williams Legacy Foundation.

We are incredibly thankful to ongoing support from design firm Studio Loutsis, and to urban designers Shivani Agarwal, German Bahamon, Mariana Gortan, Nina Lish, and Pepa Pereira.