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Education
MyBlockNYC
Two of the co-founders of an innovative “video map” of New York discuss personal expression, urban exploration and the civic possibilities of video.
Fast-Tracked: Who Decides Where the Subway Goes?
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.
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort
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.
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman
"It is the ultimate virtue for architecture in an urban context to create or activate the public domain."
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Olatunbosun Obayomi
"The city can be likened to a living microbe."
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Charles Montgomery
"Comfort is an infinitely relative commodity, and thus a marker of status."
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Maria Nicanor
"We asked for a space in which we could do everything and anything."
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Omar Freilla
"Most of us live in our own little bubbles. We know the world that we walk in every single day."
Montage City
Three architecture students share videos that poetically explore Coney Island, Willets Point and the Brooklyn Bridge.