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The Awesome Foundation, a newly founded Cambridge-based non-profit making micro-grants to fund extraordinary projects, has selected its first fellow.
Rhode Island School of Design assistant professor Hansy Better Barraza will receive $1,000 toward installing a giant hammock on Boston Common, the foundation announced Saturday. The public will be invited to hang out in the oversized hammock free of charge, according to an announcement posted on Facebook.
The announcement also invited the public to attend an awards ceremony this Friday, 8 p.m., at the Harvard University Berkman Center’s Church Street satellite office, Berkman Squared, at which Barraza is expected to explain her project.
“We had a lot of really good ideas,” said co-founder Tim Hwang. “Some of them cleaved on the more technical side. We felt at least for our first grant it made sense to open up with something everybody could participate in.”
Founded by a group of Boston-area tech employees and entrepreneurs, the Awesome Foundation wanted its first grant to counter the expectation that it would fund only IT-related projects, Hwang said.
Barraza could not be reached this morning, but Hwang said she envisions designing and fabricating the hammock in six to eight weeks.
However, questions remain as to whether installing a group hammock will be feasible on Boston’s historic common. City Parks and Recreation Department director of event development Suzanne Taylor said the hammock idea will have to go through the same permitting process as any special event.
The parks department has in the past worked with the Institute of Contemporary Art on art installations on the common, but has not yet received a permit application for the hammock idea, she said.
With the selection of its August fellow, the Awesome Foundation opened applications for its September fellowship program. The deadline, according to the organization’s website, is August 14.
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