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An award-winning guide for NYC street vendors that clarifies their rights and rules. A collaboration with The Street Vendor Project and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, thousands of copies were distributed to vendors for free and are $6 in CUP’s online store.
A booklet promoting a new master plan for the city of Orange, New Jersey through accessible stories, diagrams, and maps. 20,000 copies were distributed to city residents through the local newspaper.
30 flash cards that translate NY’s official Tenants’ Rights Guide into a fun and friendly format. A collaboration with Tenants & Neighbors thanks to a grant from Sappi Ideas That Matter, the cards are $10 in T&N’s online store.
A website for an online publication by the Architectural League that showcases design innovation, critical analysis, and local expertise related to New York City’s physical environment.
Interactive public installation that invites local residents to share information about their housing costs through fill-in-the-blank notes. Part of the Windows Brooklyn exhibit.
A book about NYC’s first skyscraper, nicknamed the Idiotic Building by doubtful locals. The story serves as a poignant tale about pursuing even the most “idiotic” of ideas.
A website for Global Studio, a place-based action research program informed by the UN Millennium Development Goals that works with disadvantaged communities in cities around the world.
A collaboration with Trollbäck + Co. on the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s fundraising campaign to launch innovative programs for community growth.
A photography book about hair salons in Johannesburg that highlights the creative energy and urban planning challenges in the area.
Street art that encourages self-evaluation in transit by posing questions on the sidewalks with temporary spray-chalk.
What is urban planning? This graphic novel helps demystify the discipline by telling the dramatic tale of the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway. Featuring the big personalities of master planner Robert Moses and community leader Jane Jacobs, the story captures two different approaches to planning and the lessons we can learn from both.
As part of Turku, Finland’s 2011 European City of Culture program, the City of Turku Cultural Services launched the Artist as Neighbour program and invited us to create an interactive public art project that creates new possibilities for social interaction, sharing, and learning in the suburbs of Turku. Stay tuned as the project develops!
How can residents influence the types of stores and services that enter their neighborhood? How can small businesses be assured they will find customers? Neighborland.org is a service that encourages local entrepreneurship and provides residents with the tools to shape the commercial development of their communities.
Urban air pollution is a growing problem in many fast-developing cities in Asia. In collaboration with UrbanEmissions in India, we’re designing an awareness and action tool about the sources of particulate pollution and ways citizens can take action to reduce this health hazard.
Residents are brimming with shareable resources, useful services, and helping hands. How can this info be publicized to neighbors in a friendly format? In collaboration with GOOD Magazine, we’re developing a tool inspired by the doorknob hanger that will be featured in their upcoming Neighborhoods issue in the Spring of 2010.
This series of trading cards features inspiring community leaders so we can idolize these local organizers just as much as baseball players. Stars include Jane Jacobs, Jim Diers, Majora Carter, and Orlean Naidoo, and the cards will be available in the coming months. Stay tuned!
New York’s bodegas are ubiquitous spaces where a variety of commodities, people, and transactions collide. How do they reflect their communities? What do the different inventories say? How do prices vary between neighborhoods and why? In conjunction with Parsons, this project explores the everyday corner store through photographs, stories, maps, graphics, and interventions.
Many neighborhoods have vacant storefronts and ambitious entrepreneurs, but the high costs of opening a business prevent these spaces from being used. Flux offers a flexible restaurant space featuring short-term rotations of chefs from the greater community, lowering the barriers to entry and revitalizing empty spaces with local energy.
“E is for eminent domain!” This coloring book explains urban planning-related topics in a friendly format. Terms like central business district (CBD), urban agriculture, and non-governmental organization (NGO) are illustrated to help young and old alike understand the lay of the land and how they can help shape it.
Chinatown’s sidewalks are lined with towers of cardboard boxes from the daily influx of produce to restaurants and groceries. Where do they come from, where do they go, and is this the best solution? This project investigates the food systems of Chinatown, documents the life of one box, and explores food transport ideas with the local community.