Minigolf Fareway
For Park(ing) Day 2025, the MLA students are inviting you to engage with our urban sidewalks, parking spaces, right of way, curbs and cracks with our annual minigolf parklet.
Designs explore how the smallest components of our streetscapes can be reimagined into a participatory put-put course. The students worked in collaboration on a modular 'kit' course that will have a second life following parking day where each physical street box prototypes for exploring urban ecology.
Why?
Even the city’s smallest patch (a window box) can affect ecology, habitat and health of the community.
Students were asked to speculate on spontaneous vegetation which contributes to the ecological health of the city. The output course explores how the smallest components of our streetscapes can be reimagined and the future exhibit will demonstrate how these adaptive ecological patches offer our streets more than exotic plants and seasonal flower beds
Background on KSU’s participation in Park(ing) Day:
Park(ing) Day is a staple of the Graduate level Landscape Architecture program at Kent State University’s College of Architecture & Envormental Design. It challenges the idea of traditional street parking spaces and spreads awareness of creating safer, more accessible green streets.
Through the Construction Methods course, students spend time discovering practical construction skills that allow them to design and construct their parking day project. For the past couple of years, the Construction Methods class has used mini golf (putt-putt) as a way to engage people on the streets and spread awareness of the message of Park(ing) Day.
Thank you to this year’s partners!
