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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. |
So, Mayor Bloomberg will be mayor for a third term. What will this mean for the architecture, planning and urban design that have received more policy attention from his administration than from previous ones? Thoughts, opinions, predictions? Send them our way.
Some will undoubtedly answer that question by… 
So, CUP’s Nehemiah talk last night was dope. Reverend Dr. Youngblood and architect Alexander Gorlin delivered on their promise to share some of the fascinating back-story of how they teamed up to design and built the Spring Creek Nehemiah Houses and how, against the odds, East Brooklyn Congregations built almost 3,000…
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Glen Cummings shares the process of creating the Predatory Equity Survival Guide. |
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Candy Chang shares the process of working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and the Street Vendor Project to demystify the regulations of street vending in New York City. |
Bryan Bell’s approach to expanding design’s role in addressing public needs, highlighted last week on the Omnibus, is a powerful step towards redefining the popular conception of what design can do. He is not alone in this effort, joined by design/build curricula like Auburn University’s Rural
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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. |
Next week on the Omnibus we’ll be sharing documentation of our first live event: last November, we worked with Bryan Bell, Founder of Design Corps, to convene six teams of young designers to design and build something in the public interest, constructed from found materials, in 48 hours. Bryan kicked the project off…
