Unseen Machine

Unseen Machine exposes the technologies that keep the city running day-to-day and introduces the characters and designs involved in maintaining, managing and re-imagining the systems that make New York work.

Foodprint City

Nicola Twilley recently asked designers, farmers, health officials, activists and CEOs in NYC and Toronto to discuss how we feed our cities. Find out what she’s learned.

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Fast Trash!

Juliette Spertus discusses her exhibit – which combines infrastructure, New York history and alternative urban futures – about Roosevelt Island’s trash collection system.

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Minds in the Gutter

What if sewers no longer overflowed when it rained? Kate Zidar talks about designing for stormwater management and why it is crucial to our health, our waterways and our city.

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Food and the Shape of Cities

Sarah Rich and Nicola Twilley discuss the impact of food systems on the physical city in advance of Foodprint NYC, an event at Studio-X.

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Letting Off Some Steam

Jeff Maki explains Manhattan’s District Steam Service as a case study in how citizens can engage in the maintenance of infrastructure.

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Pipe-within-a-Pipe

When the League said goodbye to the Urban Center, Madison Avenue reminded us that innovative infrastructure often lies just outside your doorstep.

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