NEW YORK
Urban Design Study Trip
Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion II - New York
2019
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The programme's International Summer Workshop in 2019 is co-organized this time with colleagues from the New School and give students the opportunity to study related urban design projects in New York. In this trip we focuse on public spaces and infrastructure along MTA's Line 7, from Hudson Yards to Flushing. Line 7 has often been called the "Immigrant Express" due to the fact that a high percentage of recent immigrant families from around the world settle in Queens, and that most of them work in Manhattan and other boroughs thus using Line 7 to commute to work. This trip studies practices and processes of production and appropriation of transit-oriented public spaces, and develops scenarios and design strategies for their production and use. We create proposals for neighborhood plazas in order to transform underused open urban spaces into vibrant, meaningful, and community-centered public spaces. We work with the NYC Plaza Program, a long-term initiative of the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) and a key part of the City's effort to ensure that all New Yorkers live within a 10-minute walk of a meaningful and adequate public space. The partners include NYC DOT, Center for Active Design, Design Trust for Public Space, Queens Museum, as well as numerous community organizations and local BIDs along Line 7. This trip offers an intensive learning experience by combining field studies of different areas of the city as well as lectures and seminars helping the students to understand the various aspects of New York's public spaces and their implications for quality of living, social inclusion and economic opportunities.
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