South Bronx Community Resiliency Agenda

Ellen Neises is a member of the South Bronx Community Resiliency Agenda (SBCRA), a long-term planning project led by NYC EJA and The Point, to engage South Bronx communities in creating a comprehensive climate resiliency agenda and plan to strengthen both the physical and social resiliency of the South Bronx. The project was conceived as an extension of community-based collaborative work on Hunts Point Lifelines—a means to increase the scale of the resiliency effort to all areas of the South Bronx, and to develop components of the Lifelines plan. We contribute to the South Bronx Community Resiliency Agenda through analysis, planning and design. Studio research efforts like the Bronx Biolab, in collaboration with South Bronx Unite, are conceived to explore questions and develop plans for priorities identified by the SBCRA. Our design and planning work is shared with the wider community at public events like Mott Haven’s City of Water Day.