PARK(ing) Day

PARK(ing) Day is an annual open-source global event where citizens, artists, an activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into PARK(ing) spaces – temporary public spaces.  Always scheduled for the third Friday in September, the City of Columbia has been host to PARK(ing) Day celebrations since 2015.  Each year, artists, architects, advocates for public space, and more come together to design and build temporary parklet installations in parking spaces throughout the urban core, inspiring and challenging Columbians to reframe how we think about public space.

A map of pop-up parks throughout downtown Columbia will be released shortly prior to the event here: https://www.columbiacompass.org/parklets.html – make plans to play the day away and rethink public space!