Jason Roberts

Founding Director of Better Block | Dallas | USA

Jason Roberts is the founder of the Better Block, which began as a guerilla arts project taking blighted city streets and rapidly painting bicycle lanes, installing landscaping, cafe seating, and pop-up businesses. He now works in cities around the world applying Better Blocks to help bring rapid bottom-up revitalization to neighborhoods. It is Jason´s passion to take blighted and disinvested city infrastructure and find ways to incorporate beauty and vitality. He has already helped install hundreds of miles of bicycle infrastructure in cities across the United States and is creating an open sourced library of digitally fabricated public furniture designs called Wikiblock.