Every day, 41 people move to Seattle and only 14 units of housing are built. Homelessness and wealth disparity are growing at unprecedented rates, and existing models for providing housing and human services are not equipped to meet the growing demand. This impacts all of us; none of us can truly thrive when so many of our neighbors are suffering.

On Saturday May 11, Boston mayor Marty Walsh visited BSA Space to celebrate with children, families, teachers, and administrators at the opening of the exhibition Our Boston: Voices from Kindergarten.

On April 18, the BSA and its Urban Design Committee, the City of Boston and MassDOT hosted a participatory design workshop to generate potential design solutions for key moments of the future “Allston Esplanade,” the area that will be created as a result of the planned rebuilding of the I-90 interchange and Allston Viaduct in Boston.

Now in its 27th year, KidsBuild! was held at BSA Space on Saturday, April 6 and Sunday, April 7, 2019. Guided by volunteer design professionals, over 600 children and adults chose a construction site from a fictional city grid, designed and built a building, and were awarded Certificates of Occupancy from the city building inspectors.

Hundreds of guests filled BSA Space to bid on artwork that was carefully curated by a jury with diverse professional backgrounds. The initial call for art went out last summer, with over 100 submissions by artists and architects throughout New England.

On February 27, 2019, almost 100 people filled BSA Space’s Salt gallery for the Designing Boston: Building Community Panel.