Marisa Morán Jahn Studio
ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND RADICAL PLAY AS SOCIAL PRACTICE
Marisa Jahn bridges art, architecture, and storytelling to co-create projects with immigrant families, domestic workers, youth, and underrepresented communities. She is an artist and educator, her civic-scale projects are known for their humor, accessibility, and political resonance, bringing public attention to urgent issues through playful forms of engagement.
Care, Creativity, and the Collective
Working at the intersection of participatory design, social justice, and cultural production, the studio’s projects activate civic spaces in bold and unexpected ways. From Bibliobandido, a living legend that has inspired literacy movements across the Americas, to CareForce and Carehaus, initiatives advocating for domestic workers and care-based co-housing, Jahn’s work channels art as a tool for storytelling, organizing, and transformation.
Whether building a mobile basketball court (HOOPcycle), co-authoring a policy-shaping design book, or exhibiting at the Venice Biennale, Jahn’s practice reimagines how artists can co-author the social fabric. The studio's projects have reached millions through collaborations with institutions like the Guggenheim, PBS, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, while also embedding deeply in communities to foster lasting change.
Projects
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Art-Tek Tulltorja (Kosovo)
This project reimagines a former brick factory in Prishtina as an art-and-tech hub with co-working spaces, exhibitions, and public programming. It bridges neighborhoods through climate-conscious design and cultural regeneration.
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Care Haus
This intergenerational co‑housing model combines independent living for older adults with affordable wages, housing, and childcare for caregivers. It fosters community through shared meals, arts, fitness, and more, designing care into everyday life.
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Hoop Cycle
This mobile art installation and game reimagines basketball through a blend of Mayan vertical hoops, a traditional tricycle, and modern play. Designed to foster equitable and creative recreation, it empowers communities to invent their own rules and reclaim public space.
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ReCreation
This project reinterprets archival photographs of interracial play and street life in 1960s–70s Baltimore public housing. Through layered imagery and hand-dyed treatments, it celebrates community resilience and collective memory.
