Sit Here

For our college project at Parsons, we are promoting a social awareness campaign in the Park Slope area entitled, "SIT HERE". This campaign aims to address the decreasing culture of social interaction formerly known as "Stoop Culture".

The Group:
Sarah: Fabricated the website and went all over the net to get others to learn about the project. That's how Brooklyn Papers found us.
Essence: The researcher about park slope and stoop culture.
Chelsea: The designer, creator of the idea of stoop culture, and the explainer.
       
 Essence  Sarah     Chelsea

A stoop or an urban stoop, is a small staircase leading to the entrance of an apartment building in an urban setting. It is usually of 4 to 6 steps.

Traditionally, in North American cities, the stoop served an important function as a spot for brief, incidental social encounters. Homemakers, children, and other household members would sit on the stoop outside their home to relax, and greet neighbors passing by. Similarly, while on an errand, one would stop and converse with neighbors sitting on their stoops. Within an urban community, stoop conversations helped to disseminate gossip and reaffirm casual relationships. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_stoop)

A more formal version from the Associated Press:

The students' project began a few months ago, as they were mapping the neighborhood [Park Slope] for a class at Parsons The New School for Design. They came across an elderly man named Bob sitting alone on a stoop. "Bob mentioned no one says 'hi' to him when he sits on his stoop," said Briganti, 24. "No one sits on their stoop anymore. He is from a generation where all the neighbors knew each other."

Inspired, the students decided to research stoop culture, or the lack thereof, for the class. Their process? Not exactly scientific.
Three groups were surveyed: the elderly, young families and "hipsters," a loosely defined group of young, unmarried people. Sample sizes were small -- about 15 to 20 in each group.

And some of the interviews lasted just a few minutes. Trends emerged anyway. The older people recalled days when they played on stoops and held family barbecues. The young parents said they were too busy with the kids these days to sit on stoops. And the hipsters were often indifferent, and some said they preferred bars.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500111.html?referrer=emailarticle

The "SIT HERE" flier, which has been affixed to private and public benches and stoops, aims to facilitate an awareness of the massive amount of vacant communal space that could be utilized for social interaction. 

Please leave us comments...It is helpful for us to learn what the neighborhood community is thinking, so please go to the comments webpage so you can rate and comment on our progress. Also, participate in our polls.

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we are still going to let people know online! We are in the news and reporters are finding us frequently so how can we not? Plus we got to go on stage to show it off because everyone in the class voted for it to be viewed by all the freshmen at our college. And it is all because of you guys bringing over 1000 views in only two weeks! VIEW COUNTER

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