Dickerman Park
Coen + Partners

Dickerman Park is an exciting collaboration on a forgotten public space along the busiest avenue connecting Minneapolis and Saint Paul.  The park, donated to Saint Paul in 1910, has never functioned as a viable public space and today serves as a parking lot, service area, and front yard for business along a quarter mile of University Avenue.  Emphasizing temporal qualities and the neighborhood’s diverse population, the redesign of the park will employ photography, in different forms, as a generator of surface texture, night lighting, movement, and as an evolving documentary of the street.