Challenge: Curate a show from assets spanning 3 school years with 3 discrete teams and coalesce them into a single timeline. Show is scheduled to open February 4, 2014 and most teams are on winter break so resources are scarce.

Solution: This exhibition showcased the ongoing efforts to revitalize the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center in Washington Heights through a multi-year collaboration between the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and the Parsons Design Workshop. The Design Workshop is a team of architecture students from Parsons School of Design, under faculty supervision, who provide pro bono architectural design and build services to not-for-profit organizations.

Started in the spring of 2011 and completed in the summer of 2013, the Highbridge project, an adaptive reuse, was designed and built by students to improve the WPA era facilities and when completed, made the center accessible year round, serving an underprivileged community. Featuring photographs, drawings, sketches together with artifacts and material samples, the exhibition displayed the various elements and a chronology of this work-in-progress.