Laurie Hawkinson shares student work and discusses the meanings of 'speculation', collaborations between architecture and real estate students, and the return of big ideas.

Two of the co-founders of an innovative “video map” of New York discuss personal expression, urban exploration and the civic possibilities of video.

Alexandra Woolsey Puffer and Jeff Maki share the results of a high school student team’s investigation into transit planning and the westward expansion of the 7 line.

Six of the minds behind the New York installment of an international traveling laboratory for urban experimentation discuss the theme of comfort in urban space.

"It is the ultimate virtue for architecture in an urban context to create or activate the public domain."

"The city can be likened to a living microbe."

"Comfort is an infinitely relative commodity, and thus a marker of status."

"We asked for a space in which we could do everything and anything."

"Most of us live in our own little bubbles. We know the world that we walk in every single day."