Design Trust projects bring together neighborhoods, public agencies, and design professionals to find innovative opportunities for change, making the city more beautiful, sustainable, functional, and available to all. Since their founding in 1995, the Design Trust has completed over 25 projects in all five boroughs, serving and engaging a diverse set of communities.
Their mission is committed to improving the design, utility, and understanding of New York City's parks, plazas, streets, and public buildings. They bring together neighborhoods, public agencies, and design professionals to find innovative opportunities for change, making the city more beautiful, sustainable, functional, and available to all.
The Design Trust is the only public space organization that gives city agencies and community groups the means to work collaboratively with private sector design and other professionals. They select projects from across the five boroughs and assemble top-notch cross-disciplinary teams to bring innovation to urban space challenges. These public/private partnerships generate powerful and unexpected working relationships, creating remarkable solutions to complicated public space issues.
