Act Local spotlights innovative projects and organizations whose field of action is a particular patch of New York, in order to collect perspectives on how locally-based initiatives affect the design and building of the city.
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Mitch McEwen founded SUPERFRONT as a gallery and project space for architectural experimentation. Listen to her share its backstory and check out glimpses of the space in action. |
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Esther Robinson’s approach to supporting the arts through asset-building is something everyone interested in cities and neighborhoods should know about. |
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Interboro Partners shares a selection of their work on “Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities,” challenging us to design and advocate for generational diversity. |
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Seema Agnani’s work with South Asian immigrants on housing needs charts a course for legalizing basement apartments to create affordable housing. |
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Deborah Grossberg Katz and Terri Chiao explore how small-scale design can address broader social issues through their research on the systemic cycle of homelessness in the city. |
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For five years this collaborative has worked to address the challenge of increasing immigrant involvement in city parks. Check out their work and hear from two participants. |
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Anoo Siddiqi and Hillary Angelo explore participatory design processes in New York City’s public spaces and introduce the People Make Parks initiative. |
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Bryan Bell, founder of Design Corps, invites young designers to design and build a project in the public interest, from found materials, in two days. |
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Deborah Greig, Urban Agriculture Coordinator for East New York Farms!, explains the history of the organization in the context of the neighborhood. |


