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 18, 2026!
Prototype Tomorrow is this year’s Park(ing) Day theme!
Every meaningful innovation begins as a prototype. Park(ing) Day brings that process into the public realm, inviting communities to test new ideas for public space together. Each installation becomes an experiment in collective imagination, revealing how small interventions can inspire lasting change.
Prototype in public.
Learn together.
Build tomorrow.
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 #parkingday2026 #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.