THE MAKING
REPUBLIC
OF NEW YORK
DID YOU KNOW
one of the New York Region's greatest infrastructural asset cuts through the heart of Brooklyn and Queens?
the New York Historical Freight Rail (aka Bay Ridge Line) has the opportunity to decentralize the city and connect regionally to the rest of Eastern America
AS AN EXTENSION OF THE CSX RAIL
TODAY
skirting the inner periphery of New York’s three subway-connected outer boroughs, the Bay Ridge line passes through numerous communities that have been the zones sacrificed for the benefit of the consumption habits of Manhattan and suburban areas. Nevertheless, the opportunity for these communities in Light Industry and Making after the de-industrialization of the city led to a series of vibrant growth. Through fieldwork, mapping, and engagements - students, faculty, and community members created a series of speculations rethinking futures around Food, Products, Logistics, Construction, and Waste.
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Design Projects
Newark Ironbound
Upper New York Bay
The Brooklyn and Queens Bend
Newton Creek
Hunts Point
A Forum Spanning Three Cohorts of Student Designers
Students unpack the built environment through seminars to imagining new forms of urban manifestations in studios to think about the built environment.
Our work here provides ways to explore new systems of environmental injustice produced by the logistics of a globally sourced consumer economy during a climate crisis. The infrastructures for the movement of people and goods regionally add to the burdens of front-line communities in already polluted post-industrial brownfield and super-fund sites. This comprehensive planning issue con-compasses a huge range of institutional and community partners that provide additional sources of knowledge, information, and feedback. While we focus on design work in the New York City/Newark area, case studies for new urban districts for making are important models for consideration.
Four thematic urban problems related to the architecture and public realm of ethical making and distribution were explored:
Food Futures
Productive Commons
Re-thinking Logistics
Construction
Waste Afterlife
How can local production and employment play a larger role in the regional economy?
While the public realm has too often become designed as a place for consumption, how can public space be designed for resourcing, making, moving, and recycling things?
Seminar 2018: Environmental Justice: Race, Class, and the Environment
Instructor: Ana Baptista
Students: Genesis Abreu, Magdelena Folkman, Sarah Fried, Rania Manganara, Nyleen Futon, Jocelyn Germany, Reynold Graham, Andrew Harvey, Autumn Hill, Laura Langner, Dawa Y. Sherpa, Andrew Stark, Christian Tandazo, Andrea Torres, Nikole Wieneke, Carmela Wilkins, Regina Ynestrillas Vega
Studio 05 2018: Newark Ironbound
Instructor(s): Brian McGrath, Peter Robinson
Students: Erin Abraham, Corey Andrus, Ivee Barton, Becky Cho, Emma Costello, Alexander Guerra, Andrew Harvey, Jong Hee, Fabienne Chantai Hierz, Sunghwan Jean, Naser Kalhori, Atacan Kutlu, Ann Le, Vivian Lee, Meredith Moore, Sruthi Pawels, Vaishnavi Reddy Tangela
Studio 05 2019
Instructor(s): Brian McGrath, Claire Weisz, Graci Mills
Students: Raveena Bahadur, Sophie Buteau, Chris Caliendo, Timothy Chan, Yixin Chang, Caitlin Charlet, Shruti Deore, Kanat Derbissalinov, Diana Erazo, Rachel Filler, Madeleine Klingspor. Rifah Khan, Gabir Korac, Irshaad Malloy, Waly Pont, Conrad Ratto, Sara Shalam, Melissa Sotelo, Shiheyi (Aidan) Xie, Tommy Yang
Studio 05 2020
Instructor(s): Brian McGrath, Claire Weisz, Graci Mills, Sagi Golan
Students: Adel Aleali, Feras Y A H Alhabeeb, Alexandra Apodaca, Rita Baboujian, Jack Chiu, Victoria Frederick, Chase Hodge, Nadia Johnson, Darina Keane, Shiman Jennifer Kwan, Ashley Lam, Jiuying Li, Youcong Li, Elizabeth Lowery, Christian Maldonado, Zaib Momin, Nicholas Rapillo, Nantakanta Ratanachiwapong, Carmen Ruiz Cruz, Meryl Smith, Sara Suri, Karolina Vargas, Peter Vos