NEW LOCAL is a three-part series of half-day workshops and participatory talks centered on an examination of locality and its conditions. The sessions bring together leaders from a variety of industries, from architects, developers and planners to policy makers, sociologists, and anthropologists, who will discuss new forms of public space, modes of living and manufacturing in New York City, and the expanding role of design.
This will be second event in the series focusing on living.
Historically, the city has been the setting for the most innovative and radical living typologies, and yet, as the population and demographics of NYC change, new models of housing are rare. It is clear that as cities change it is necessary for urban populations to more seriously consider equity, diversity, and inclusion when developing new housing systems so that living situations reflect actual demographics.
During this workshop, we will try to answer the following questions: can sharing platforms help resolve urgent social housing issues? Are there new ways of looking at existing social housing stock and left-over spaces in a more efficient way? Can we create new housing typologies to respond to new social contracts developing in urban cores? How can we better share the resources of our cities to create a diverse and equitable future?
Join us for a half-day of workshops and participatory talks to examine what it means to live in cities today and what typologies of housing are needed to support new needs, and how we define “neighborhood” today.
Register for the upcoming sessions:
Sessions One: Friday, October 20: New Local – Public Space: Arup Workshop
Session Three: Thursday, November 9: New Local – Manufacturing: Pratt Workshop
Workshop Leaders
Chris Leong, Founding Partner, Leong Leong
Emily Abruzzo, AIA, Partner, Abruzzo Bodziak Architects
Selected Speaker
Darrick Borowski, Head of Design, WeLive
Erik Olsen, Partner, Transsolar New York
Frank Dubinsky, Monadnock Development
Jared Della Valle, Founder, Alloy Development
Jing Liu, Founding Partner, SO-IL
Marc Norman, University of Michigan/Ideas and Action
Matt Chaban, Center for Urban Future
Oke Hauser, MINI Living
Paul Nakazawa, Professor of Practice, Harvard GSD
Sarah Watson, Citizens Housing Planning Council
Thomas Yu, Asian Americans for Equality
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Founder, PAU
Nadine Maleh, Executive Director, Institute for Public Architecture
Anika Singh Lemar, Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Corinna Natter, Experience Designer, MINI Living
Danielle Lurie, Compass
Miriam Roure, Program Director, Urban-X
AIANY New Practices Committee and A/D/O
