Walks and Talks introduces figures involved in the design, building and ‘thinking’ of the city — informally and in their own words — ranging from city commissioners to architects to community activists to artists. The series will profile both well-known and unrecognized voices in private practice, scholarship, public service and local leadership.
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Neil Freeman and Todd Shalom discuss walking through the city as a medium of art, poetics and urban awareness. |
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In the third of a series of interviews with artists, Heather L. Johnson talks about how complex urban infrastructure systems inspire her explorations of movement and space. |
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In the second of a series of interviews with visual artists, Emily Henretta discusses how the process of collage and the experience of cities inform each other. |
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In the first of a series of interviews with visual artists, Roberto Mollá discusses the influence of architecture and the urban environment on his work. |
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Sociologist Dalton Conley takes us on a walk through the public housing complexes where he grew up, reflecting on the economics of housing policy and the limits of design. |
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Rachel Abrams breaks down the actors, information and knowledge behind the routine experience of taking a NYC taxi, and explains how design thinking can benefit urban systems. |
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Nicole Salazar talks to Adam Friedman, former executive director of NYIRN, about the importance of the manufacturing industry in New York. |
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Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe shares thoughts on recent and upcoming additions to the city’s collection of parks on unlikely sites. |
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Designers reflect on how their work explores implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urban space. |
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Vishaan Chakrabarti walks through one of the city’s favorite spaces. His reflections range from design details to regional economics to the relationship between infrastructure and density. |
