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Submitted by MyGreenside on Sun, 25/07/2010 - 22:04.
Alexis Kavouras, Khensani Mbatsane, Adelaide Modise, Tammy Kariolis Claire Mark Otter.

Danielle Dooley

Gleneagles in Greenside was turned green on Friday July 23 as students from Greenside Design Center (GDC) set up along the road to promote awareness as part of their street project.

The street project is a PRO initiative with a focus on the stretch of Gleneagles Road in Greenside, from Karma to the Greenside Design Center.

Students of GDC split into smaller focus groups to brainstorm, design and implement a series of public interventions in and around Greenside.
The project proposes a series of public interventions that will:
• Provoke wide-spread curiosity and bring public attention to the site.
• Enhance the profile of this site as a hub of creative, vibrant, cultural and retail activities.
• Enhance the stretch of Gleneagles Road as a site of recreation, leisure and entertainment.
• Energise the site through sustainable activities that have long term effects on the site.

The first group decided to ask Greenside residents and people passing by to write down what they think of the area and ideas to improve it. They posted all the ideas on a large board.

The second group printed 1500 tags saying: Join the Green-side, Live the green dream. On the other side of the tag they printed messages such as “One ton of recycled office paper saves 1450 litres of oil” or “Human pollution of the world is expected to be nearly tripled by the year 2100” and “40% of our waterways are undrinkable”

These tags where put up on fences, trees, cars to make the public aware changing lifestyle today to save the planet. The tags will then be placed in post boxes to spread the message further.

The third group designed a box, inside where images of what they want Gleneagles to look like. The also had a suggestion box for people to add their thoughts.

The forth group based their project around identity, everyone was asked to leave their fingerprint and in return received a voucher from some of the shops in the area.

The fifth group came up with a long term plan to brighten up Gleneagles road. They want to build awareness and create more foot traffic. So they handed out old light bulbs earlier in the week and told people to come and exchange them for new energy saving lightblubs as part of the project that Eskom is currently busy with.

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Sasha-Lee Findlay, Kylie O’Leary, Giselle Malherbe, George Kalapov, Stephanie Rae, Nawal Khamis, Karabo Maloisane, Nadine Golightly, Tami Marr and in the front, Glenn Samoaka and Jessica Harrisberg.

Thumbs up for Greenside Street Project

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Submitted by Ruby on Sun, 25/07/2010 - 22:30.

I think this is a fantastic initiative and encourage all Greenside residents and business owners in the area to get involved in this street project.

Keep us up-to-date with future projects.

Sending recycled messages

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 27/07/2010 - 12:50.

Great awareness campaign. Hope the pamphlets were made of recycled paper.