SPRINGFIELD — Graduate students of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Landscape Architectural and Regional Planning brought their ideas from their urban design studio to life in downtown Springfield on Friday with six interesting and artistic installations.

The project, called No Space Left Behind, allowed the students to use what they learned about "tactical urbanism" to focus on overlooked and underutilized spaces and to think of new ways to take advantage of them.

The 16 students, working with the Springfield Central Cultural District, invented fanciful creations to bring attention to places such as Steiger's Park on Main Street, Pynchon Plaza on Dwight Street, the Apremont Triangle on Chestnut Street, the warehouse district and the area around the MassMutual Center. They got plenty of help from students from the the 21st Century Baystate Springfield Educational Partnership Program at Putnam Vocational Technical Academy.



About 40 people joined the students for a walking tour of the installations led by UMass faculty members Frank Sleegers and Michael DiPasquale.

Following the tour, Focus Springfield Community Access Television hosted a reception.