Part of the LIVING PROPOSAL – PRUITT-IGOE BEE SANCTUARY exhibition at Laumeier Sculpture Park was a roundtable discussion on Pruitt-Igoe and North St. Louis community base projects.Roundtable panelist – Juan William Chavez, Michael Allen and Sylvester Brown, Jr.
Video by Timothy Nordmann from Nordmann Video.
The Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary is a proposal for the City of St Louis to transform the urban forest where Pruitt-Igoe housing development once stood into a public space that cultivates community…
This creative placemaking initiative aims to transform the urban forest where the Pruitt-Igoe housing development once stood into a public space that preserves the remaining 33 acres of green space and cultivates community through beekeeping and urban agriculture.
39 years later this vacant lot has slowly transformed into an impressive urban forest camouflaging the history of one of the worst failures of public housing in American history.