Tag: Social Justice
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Designing for Twilight Years: Sustainable Senior Living
My design proposal seeks to create harmonious, integrated spaces for elderly communities that promote intergenerational interaction through elements of social sustainability and material sustainability. School of Architecture | Sustainable Environmental Systems, SES Student: Nia Starr Faculty: Tetsu Ohara This image features a design proposal for senior living with a public campus, renewable energy resources, and…
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Expedition to the Far North & Findings
Expedition to the Far North & Findings is a pair of acrylic paintings responding to the works of naturalist illustrator John James Audubon. The paintings reinterpret one of his popular images, Common Buzzard, through a critical lens. Audubon is recognized as an American symbol for wildlife conservation. Over 500 wildlife organizations in North America are…
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Polaris: A Community VR
The night sky, the backdrop to which humans have always set their gaze in search of meaning and guidance, is reimagined as an interactive virtual reality platform designed to connect people with their communities, values, and ideas. Users can seek out opportunities to serve, education on ideas and initiatives for change, and can also find…
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The Wading City
The Wading City comes out of the indeterminacy prevalent in the 2020s, particularly the idea of the city and the building not only as a changing entity but as an adaptable entity addressing rising sea levels, food insecurity, ecological degradation, and local economic downtrends around postindustrial waterfronts. Thus generating an architecture which could respond to…
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Visibility
The thesis research aims to design a cultural sustainable center for the undeserved section of the society : women and children focused primarily in India. The concept is an effort to provide them visibility by restoring an endangered site in the midst of a metropolitan city, Mumbai. It incorporates the reuse of earthly materials and…
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Urban Farmer Cohousing
Historically, Bedford-Stuyvesant has been considered a food desert. Typically, initiatives that aim to reduce food insecurity are led by outside groups without input from the community, this project proposes increasing quality food access through urban farming at a commercial scale run by and for residents of Bed-Stuy. Our design proposes a ground floor commercial farmer’s…
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Oyster House: Reclaiming Pre-colonial Landscape Narratives
Oyster House critiques the history of colonialism and land appropriation which occurred during Dutch Colonial expansion in 17th-18th century Brooklyn by bringing forward pre-colonial narratives and asserting indigenous presence often obscured in mainstream historical discourse. By unearthing historical landscapes tied to indigenous narratives and presence, a kinetic midden is exhumed and activated within a Dutch…
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Water Scarcity and Gender Equality in Northern Benin
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudents: Miranda Fallon, Gloria Refrigeri, Avitha NarayanamurthyFaculty: Tetsu Ohara This Rain Harvester not only collects and stores rainwater, but it also functions as a place for gatherings, community events, and education. The shape of the Harvester itself creates a pavilion-style structure under which individuals may gather, socialize, and rest.…
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Around the Clock
School of Design | Graduate Interior DesignStudent: Zhen Li The project converts idle parking garages into affordable housing, thereby solving the housing crisis in big cities. Redefining the temporal boundaries and contingencies of interior space can transform machine-centric civil infrastructure from an instrument of class stratification to a humane environment of socioeconomic inclusion. The project…
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Witness the Journey
School of Design | Graduate Communications/Package DesignStudents: JaeHyuk LeeFaculty: David Burke Each poster represents situations delivery workers face during work. This project focuses on creating a safe space for delivery workers in NYC. Their work is both dangerous and underappreciated – this project engaged in research around the topic and proposed design tools to raise…