Infrastructure, design and justice lab
Making the Making Public - Socio-Natural Actions in Post-Industrial Cities
Paid Research Assistantship • Teaching Assistantship
Research Mentor: Brian McGrath • Summer 2020 (May 2020 - August 2020)
In my unfolding adventures in research, I embarked on a journey of archiving and mapping multiple ecologies from Chiang Mai Thailand to the New York Metro. This commitment resulted in a up-in-coming Web Forum for communities and designers, elevating the collaborative works of students, faculties, nonprofits, and community members. Click on the image to enjoy the showcase of the amazing collaboration currently happening at Parsons School of Design at The New School.
urbanism beyond corona
Making the Making Public in the New York Metro
The inadequate response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. aligns with the twin crises of climate change and labor inequity, which has resulted from the hidden and distant system of making and distributing that has dominated the global economy over the last four decades. Make Making Public: Redistributive Infrastructures of Care emerged as a framework to examine the structural economic disparities, environmental destruction and health disparities that results from an architecture that designs to separate and segregate makers from consumers. New York City, the world’s largest consumer economy, exploits frontline communities, already burdened by the legacy of abandoned industrial wastelands, as sacrifice zones for the noxious, truck-based logistics and superabundance of waste of home delivery. The following map [drawn by Brian McGrath, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Tommy Yang] is part of an Instagram series called #UrbanismBeyondCorona and hosted by @UrbanWorksAgency and the ExperimentalHistoryProject at the California College of the Arts Architecture Division. Architects and urbanists are invited to offer a prediction, warning, gift, hack, instrument, prompt, or question that reflects on the role designers and urban actors can play in shaping cities after Covid-19.
