AfH/DC, two Urban Design 302 studios from CUA and the Ward 7 Development Awareness Committee (DAV) have worked together in a three-week long charrette involving pedestrian intersections along Minnesota Avenue. The partnership looked to promote stronger community involvement with the development of the urban infrastructure. The charette was aimed to incite design solutions of pedestrian scale to problematic intersections along the Minnesota corridor; a collaboration fusing together citizen-based incentives with formal community development. The students worked to creating boards which graphically represented ideas and response to the issues discovered of this area.

Below are the CUA Student involved to give credit for the hard work they put on this project.

Blaine Road Area:
David Dunbar, Roberto Colque, Hamza Ibrahim, Andrew Kracht

Benning Road Area:
Nazanin, Josh Cahill, Greg Cancro, Ryan Pedroty

SOME (So Others Might Eat) is an interfaith, community based non profit organization that exists to help the poor and the homeless in Washington, DC. One of their Single Room Occupancy (SRO) homes called the Shalom House needs work done to their communal bathrooms, communal kitchens, and efficiency kitchens. They would also like AFH-DC's help in designing an exterior awning for their entrance, and signage that can be seen from the train line down the street.