Culver City Parks Task 8.1 Final Plan - Flipbook - Page 51
Veterans Memorial Park
The Culver City Parks Plan
team led over 200 youth
campers to envision the
future of their parks system.
El Marino Park
Figure 46. Campers advocated for both active and passive
recreation in their park drawings. Source: OLIN, 2024.
YOUTH CAMP
Lindberg Park
Figure 45. Campers used pipe cleaners, tape, scissors, foam, and
paper to create their dream park. Source: OLIN, 2024.
The Culver City Parks Plan team led over 200
campers from Culver City youth summer camp
programs in arts and crafts exercises. Campers,
ranging from kindergartners to fifth graders, were
introduced to the Parks Plan and the concept of
designing parks and open spaces. Students were
then asked to imagine and create their ideal park
or playground for Culver City. Using construction
paper, markers, crayons, pipe cleaners, foam,
scissors, and washi tape, the children considered
how they play in the parks today and how the
spaces could be better. The Parks Plan team also
engaged teenagers at the Culver City Teen Center
day camp, who filled out the Parks Plan surveys and
noted potential park improvements on an aerial of
Veterans Memorial Park.
Each camper worked individually to craft their
park, but then had an opportunity to show and
tell their ideas with the group at the end of the
session. The campers created a wide variety of parks,
with spaces for sports, more flowers and trees,
spaces for reading, imaginative playgrounds, and
even roller coasters. Many campers included ideas
about operations, food courts, and trash cans as
well. As some of Culver City parks’ most passionate
and frequent users, campers had integral and
inspired feedback for the Parks Plan.
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