Rethinking Parks

Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, USA

‘Over the next two years, Nesta, The Heritage Lottery Fund and The Big Lottery Fund will back a small number of pioneering innovations, with a focus on finding the new business models that will enable our parks to thrive for the next century.

For example, what if parks made the most of temporary installations to generate income – like open air cinemas, food festivals or art showcases? What if communities took on the maintenance of parks, or real-time user data from smartphones was used to inform maintenance regimes? 

If you’ve got an idea to reimagine the way your local park is used, maintained or run, we want to hear from you.’