Stop One: Absolute
Score!
Stop Two: Nussbaum
Again!
Heading to Stop Three: Morton Williams
Considerable waste.
Stale, but ok?
So. Many. Bagels.
And there are more!
Round two of food-in-the-city research: what do we waste? Bagels, apparently.
November 17, 2009
November 16, 2009
Municipal Art Society Urban Farms
On November 3, the 2nd Annual Jane Jacobs Forum focused on the question of whether New York can (and should) try to become more sustainable and grow its own food. Expert panelistsDr. Dickson Despommiers of Columbia University, Nevin Cohen of the New School, Jennifer Nelkin of Gotham Greens, Dan Albert of Weber Thompson architects and Colin Cathcart of Kiss+Cathcart architects discuss how this could happen answering questions posed by moderator Neal Peirce of The Washington Post.
November 14, 2009
Oppositional Architecture
A series of events worth seeing/participating in:
“Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture” takes up the task of exploring possibilities and conditions of a socially committed architectural practice. We invite activists, geographers, architects, planners, and economists representing different critical approaches to discuss and develop concepts and practices that not only try to oppose and challenge the capitalist mode of production of space, but also try to go beyond it – strategies of de-commodification, re-appropriation and alternative production of space. We will look at already existing spatial actions of resistance as well as search for possibilities to further theorize them: How can these strategies and alternative practices be turned into social and political forces towards post-capitalist spaces?
All events are public.
Free dinner will be served during discussion evenings.
October 27, 2009
This video focuses on understanding the intersection of Allen and Hester as a place where bicycle traffic has a generating origin. The film starts out from a global analysis of Manhattan and its Environs :). The focus of the analysis then shifts to the site itself and investigates the overlapping layers of different activities and conditions.
October 19, 2009
Pike Street between Division Street and East Broadway.
Gramazio & Kohler, Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich, in conjunction with NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program.
Go see it.
October 15, 2009
Our video analyzes the different degrees of transparency and opacity present at the site
as a result of the addition of impermanent objects such as benches and planters. The
plants and foliage, in particular, provided us with vantage points through which to
document the passage of pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicle traffic. Also, the presence of
both physical and more transparent boundaries, like the bike lanes, demonstrates how
bicyclists both use and misuse the public space provided to them by the city. With this
information we can design a prototype that provides different experiences and
perspectives based on the existing site conditions.
October 13, 2009
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