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Making Publics as Classrooms
Functioning at the intersection of Architecture, Urban Design, and Ecology, the Infrastructure, Design and Justice Lab explores the complexity of urban forms by focusing on the infrastructure of frontline communities. With Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing as a framework, the Lab weaves political, social, economic, and environmental systems to create urban imaginaries. Starting with New York and Chiang Mai as pilots, students and faculty co-create strategies and design urban transformations alongside and with local knowledge.
Design Methodology
1. Analyze [A]
Animations, Reports, Mappings, and Codumentations
[A] consists of critical mapping, taxonomies, and documentation of infrastructures through photography and video. By unpacking issues around food, waste, products, and logistics in New York, the themes serve to inform additional analyses of global justice issues around making and the reproductive city.
2. Synthesize [S]
Urban Imaginaries and Futures
The second stage [S] of IDJ's Design Method proposes transboundary multiscalar design strategies across infrastructural assets,
From rethinking village rituals in ChiangMai Thailand to the Blocks of New York City, the work produced is a co-creation between faculty, students, and community stories gathered through fieldwork.
3. Catalyze [C]
Forums, Archive, and Radical Empathy
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