Our Vision
In collaboration a unique collective of exceptional organizations, we plan to transform Floyd Bennett Field’s historic grounds and airplane hangers into world-class experiential learning environments for 1,200 Central Brooklyn students. Our visionary students - who have been systematically excluded from the opportunities that lead to green jobs and most affected by environmental racism in our city - will engage with the complex challenges facing their communities and planet.
We envision a transformative education ecosystem, focused on tackling climate change, food injustice, and systemic racism through experiential learning. This learning ecosystem will directly provide students access to career exploration, work-based learning, and employability skills.
The project offers a vision for the future of education, workforce development and environmental sustainability, where communities, students, educators and families from across the city, country and world are invited to gather, learn and co-create a sustainable, equitable and just society.
World Class Design Team
Launch has partnered with a design team uniquely suited to meet the challenges of climate change and social justice central to Launch’s mission. ARO, Colloqate and SCAPE will combine their respective expertise and work hand in hand with the Launch community throughout the process to create a new home for students, families and partners at the extraordinary site at Floyd Bennett Field.
Architecture Research Office | ARO is a New York City practice dedicated to architecture that unites beauty and form with strategy and intelligence. The firm’s diverse body of work is united by a principled and engaged approach to design, collaborative process and technical precision.
Colloqate | Colloqate Design is a multidisciplinary Architecture + Design Justice practice focused on expanding community access to, and building power through the design of social, civic, and cultural spaces. Our mission is to intentionally organize, advocate, and design spaces of racial, social and cultural equity.
SCAPE | SCAPE is a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York and New Orleans. The studio believes that landscape architecture can enable positive change in communities through the creation of regenerative living infrastructure and public landscapes.