A temporary outdoor cooling shelter for teens by teens.
We are SHADE
We are an organization of youth creating a community for teens by teens. Our community is built around a temporary summer place we are creating at Donnelly Field. SHADE is a safe hangout spot for teens to come by, find friends, make new ones, and have a good time. SHADE is made possible through Cambridge’s Shade is Social Justice public art competition.
Why Shade
We are trying to address the decline in teens’ mental health, and overall get teenagers outside in a cool 🧊 place, doing things together. Teens nowadays are faced with either feeling unwanted, unwelcomed, and/or excluded. We can change that by solving our problems for ourselves.
Adults are always the ones controlling the money, where it goes, and how it’s used to solve our problems. We want to use funding and help our peers through using our own knowledge and insight about our age group that adults can not provide. At the end of the day, nobody knows teens better than teens.
Who’s Helping
Meet the Adult Team
The Site
Location: Donnelly Field, Cambridge, MA
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Current Partners
- Cambridge Arts Department, public art grant recipient
- Cambridge Public Health Department, mini grant recipient
- Cambridge Housing Authority, Work Force Youth Work Site
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health (CFDA# 93.959), support through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) of the Federal Government’s Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block grant
Design Reference & Explorations
Yes Loitering Project
Bibliography
Connect
Jeff Goldenson | jeff@buildingways.com | 617.909.2917