Park(ing) day is a global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people.
Get ready: Park(ing) Day is September 19, 2025!
Curb the Power: Micro Acts of Civil Joy is this year’s Park(ing) Day theme!
A celebration of small, joyful disruptions in the face of oversized authority. As public space becomes more regulated, surveilled, and commercialized, we’re inviting neighbors, artists, and activists to reclaim a patch of curb and reimagine it as a site of resistance—not through confrontation, but through creativity. Whether it’s a free library, a pop-up tea salon, a quiet garden, or a radical nap zone, each installation is a micro-act of civil joy: public, participatory, and beautifully disobedient. Let’s remind each other that not all power wears a uniform—and that delight, too, can be a form of protest.
Global Design Competition Campaign
The streets we share are powerful platforms for creativity, connection, and innovation. The Park(ing) Day Network is thrilled to launch the 2025 International Parklet Design Competition, an initiative to celebrate and promote the best in design and management for flexible curb lane uses like parklets, streateries, and commercial outdoor dining spaces.
Add your project to the map above.
We encourage you to take part. See the How to Manual here for tips on how to get started. Once you’ve planned your Park(ing) Day installation, tag us @parkingday #parkingday2024 #reclaimthestreets
Access our Participant’s Care Package and kindly consider making a donation to support our ongoing efforts!
Why Park(ing) Day?
In 2005 the Rebar design team equipped with 200 square feet of lawn, a 15–foot–tall tree, a rented park bench and the desire to exploit the metered parking space as a site for art, activism and cultural expression, created the first Park(ing) Day.
Park(ing) Day is a unique and exciting opportunity to engage in the ongoing dialog around how our cities are designed and built. It began as a guerrilla art project and act of design activism in a single parking space, and has grown into a global movement, inspiring the creation of “parklets” and COVID-era “streeteries” in cities across the United States and beyond.
Creators
John Bela, Matthew Passmore, Blaine Merker, Teresa Aguilera (Rebar Group), with Andrea Scher, Gregory Kellett, and Brady Moss.
Collaborators
ASLA, Spin, Parkade, SuperWorks, Parking Reform Network and to the thousands of people that have participated in Park(ing) Day over the last 17+ years. Thank you!
Allies
This list is on ongoing work in progress, please email us with updates: hello@myparkingday.org
Original Park(ing) Day logo by Maki Kawaguchi.
“We have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars. We have our priorities the wrong way around (…) We are killing our cities.”
— Donald Shoup.