2017 Film Challenge Finalists

Title: Maring-Hunt Community Garden Pavilion

Category: Inspired by Nature

Description: The Maring-Hunt Library Community Garden Master Plan, its improvement and expansion, and a series of Garden Pavilions were developed as useful spaces to address food insecurity in a USDA-designated food desert, cultivate community interaction and social activity, and provide learning opportunities for the Southview Elementary School students, Maring-Hunt Library patrons, and neighborhood families. The Maring-Hunt Library Community Garden Master Plan includes a trio of pavilions developed around a large community garden overseen by the Library. 1. The Gateway to Growing Gardeners’ Pavilion, which provides shade, seating, tool storage, and accessible garden beds, was designed and built by students in an architecture design studio at Ball State University. 2. A Market Pavilion to house a community market with an outdoor kitchen and food preparation demonstration area is currently under construction by students in a fall semester design build studio. 3. A fenced-in Educational Pavilion and children’s garden will be developed and used by the Great Achievers at Maring-Hunt Library and Southview Elementary Students. This greenspace with its pavilions and gardens is being developed as an anchor in the Thomas Park/ Avondale and South Central Neighborhoods, and will turn an eyesore, a dilapidated exercise track and athletic field alongside an active railway line, into an asset motivating children and families to get outdoors and engage in healthy activity together.