Broad Street Stories on Broad Street

Click here to access the Broad Street Stories RFQ. 

For the last 18 months residents and community members along Broad Street have been engaging in a design process in order to eventually install three new place-keeping markers that illuminate some of the history along this significant Providence street. The project as a whole is called Broad Street Stories.

Community design processes rarely go in a straight line, and the detours often reveal interesting possibilities. As the team begins their Phase 3 journey, leading to semi-permanent installations along Broad Street, we wanted to share a recent impermanent project the team launched a couple weeks ago called, The Poster Project.

If you’ve traveled along the sidewalks on Broad Street in recent weeks you may have noticed some posters containing historical factoids and questions about our collective beliefs about the history of Broad Street. Created by the Broad Street Stories team over many months, in addition to vibrant design and these tidbits of information is a QR code that leads the viewer to a survey where you can engage with the information in deeper ways in exchange for the opportunity to win a gift card to a Broad St business. If you haven’t noticed them yet, we encourage you to be on the lookout!

If you can’t get to Broad Street and you want a close-up look at all of them, we encourage you to check out the Broad Street Stories website.

We’re posting the English versions here as well:

Big thanks and appreciation to the people who made this happen: Katie Edmonds, Tamara Metz, Marta Martinez, Victor Lopes, Yadira Rivera, Yaimani Rivera, Jan Carlos Terrero, and everyone on the Broad Street Stories team. We can’t wait to see what you make this spring.