Project: Interaction
Interaction designers Carmen Dukes and Katie Koch create a curriculum for high school students in which the city itself is the classroom.
The Omnibus Roundup – Sukkah City, park(ing) day, artificial reef, census, shipping containers
This weekend, the design competition Sukkah City will bring twelve modern-day sukkahs to Union Square for two days. The sukkah is a temporary structure constructed during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot, meant to commemorate the structures erected by Israelites during their exile from…
Weeels
David Mahfouda and Alex Pasternack discuss a mobile app that could make NYC’s fleet of 13,000 taxis a more efficient, affordable, and social mode of transit.
Swoon: The City Created, Built, Broken and Rebuilt
In our fourth of a series of artist interviews, Swoon discusses how the urban environment informs her work, from Brooklyn streets to Venetian canals to post-earthquake Haiti.
The Omnibus Roundup – Skyscraper Showdown, gubernatorial platforms, In the Footprint, and The Good, the Bad, and the Empty
A "skyscraper showdown" is in headlines this week, making contentious building projects a recurring theme for the summer. This time we have 15 Penn Plaza vs. the Empire State Building. The City Council has approved plans for a 67-story tower to be built two blocks away from, and just 34 feet shorter than, the iconic Empire...