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.

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.

Bridging design, social sciences, and humanities, this initiative fosters collaborative research, teaching, and community engagement. It unites key units from the world of academia to address complex societal challenges.

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.

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.

Mapping the global impact of New School alumni entrepreneurs across creative, cultural, and economic sectors. This initiative visualizes a century of innovation, highlighting the diverse ventures shaping our world.

This experimental film explores creative intimacy between humans and AI through a staged conversation protocol. Blending performance, language, and machine responses, it questions the nature of connection in co-creative futures.

Blending 3D-printed plastics with traditional media, Brent’s sculptures explore shifts in material, memory, and domestic form. Humor and ambiguity intersect to challenge how we perceive space, narrative, and function.

A curriculum equipping faculty and graduate students with frameworks for ethical, equitable community partnerships. Offers workshops, courses, and resources to support reflective, justice oriented teaching and collaboration.

Explores how AI impacts the experiences of female-identifying entrepreneurs, revealing systemic gaps and inclusive opportunities. Focuses on equity-driven strategies for navigating tech-enabled business environments.

This project explores how design methodologies can be integrated into non-designer teams to navigate complexity and foster innovation. It emphasizes building design values within organizations to manage uncertainty effectively.

This hands-on guide models strategic design as a mindset for starting up: framing problems, applying methods, identifying opportunities, and creating pathways forward through futures and systems thinking.

An artistic research film exploring fragmented memory, land, and identity through cinematic fabulation. Resisting linearity, it drifts through transnational presence, evoking loss, longing, and political unmooring.

Rehearsal Infrastructure portrays public buildings in Bogotá, Colombia, that lack a definitive script and instead adapt (improvise) their purposes based on emerging daily necessities.

Follows Evaristo and Raj’s clown performances to explore transformation, embodiment, and shared narrative. Through non-verbal practice, the project investigates how identities are formed, performed, and reimagined.

A collaborative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon examining conflict zones shaped by ecological and infrastructural crises. Centered on the BR-319 highway, it exposes tensions between development and cultural-environmental survival.

Explores care as a design methodology, emphasizing relational practices that foster equity and well-being. Provides frameworks for integrating care-centered approaches into educational and organizational settings.

A digital companion platform enhancing senior care through intergenerational connection and interactive learning. Empowers older adults with technological autonomy while fostering meaningful caregiver relationships.

A hands-on art and strategy lab inviting students to reimagine economies, neighborhoods, organizations, and cultures of care. Explores creative placemaking strategies that prioritize community well-being and relational design.

A collaborative storytelling initiative that reimagines narratives about the Bronx through community engagement and creative expression. It weaves together diverse voices to highlight the borough's resilience and cultural richness.

This project reimagined the visual identity and space design for the Center for Architecture’s annual showcase, featuring 455 architectural works. It highlights how strategic design can shape public engagement with the built environment.

This project developed visual tools and communication strategies to support client retention in NYC’s financial counseling programs. It focused on making services more accessible and building long-term financial confidence.

This project involved designing a 480 page comprehensive publication to showcase graduate theses in social innovation at Parsons TD program. It established a reusable template now adopted annually by new graduating cohorts.

This project translated environmental data into sound installations at Lakeside Lab. Each composition invited listeners to connect with invisible ecological forces through site specific audio and interpretive signage.

This interactive tool helps creative professionals reflect on the ethical implications of AI in their work. It visualizes user responses to ethical prompts, fostering awareness and dialogue within creative communities.

Investigating invisible labor systems, this project uses participatory design to center service workers’ voices. It includes the Workers Tarot Deck, a tool fostering reflection, solidarity, and worker-centered futures.

In partnership with Fundo FICA, this project reimagines housing as a care-centered service ecosystem. It explores governance, rights, and community to resist commodification and promote urban equity.

Through courses and curriculum development, this initiative treats education as participatory world-making. It links civic imagination with justice-oriented design and experimental teaching frameworks.

This three-part book series explores design’s role in confronting contemporary crises through theory and action. It reflects the Lab’s commitment to expanding the intellectual and political reach of critical design.

This project documents and preserves the voices of New Yorkers shaping the city's housing movements through oral history, critical cartography, and community advocacy. It amplifies local memories and efforts, preserving the history.

This project explores cooperative housing models in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, through participatory design and community engagement. It aims to reclaim local cooperativism as a pathway to housing justice and neighborhood resilience.

This project explores the intersection of gender, caregiving, and housing insecurity in New York City. It centers women's lived experiences to inform equitable housing policies and community-led design strategies.

This series of public events, workshops, and dialogues fosters community engagement around housing justice issues. It creates spaces for collective learning, advocacy, and the co-creation of equitable housing solutions.

This project engaged five artisans from different towns, each specializing in various crafts. Through collaborative workshops, it explored sustainable practices and market opportunities for local artisans.

This project presents a snapshot of the global artisan sector, analyzing diverse business and support models. It aims to identify effective strategies that promote sustainability and equity for artisans worldwide

This project supported artisan weavers by enhancing their vocational skills and collaborative design practices. It built on Fundación Compartir’s efforts to promote sustainable livelihoods and educational exchange.

This monthly online gathering convenes students, researchers, and practitioners to explore the future of artisan-centered design. It fosters global dialogue on craft, entrepreneurship, and social impact.

Linking Leon’s historical economies, gold, sugar beet, and technology, this installation turns e-waste into sugar crystal sculptures, critiquing the precarious sustainability of modern industries.

In this video series, two figures shoot paintballs at a photographic landscape backdrop, symbolically dismantling representations of territory to question ideology and image construction.

Using Google search results for “ruin” across languages and places, this project creates layered digital landscapes. It exposes how online systems shape and distort collective memory.

This participatory sculpture series invites communities in Spain, New York, and Colombia to explore borders, memory, and immigration through personal objects. Abstraction exercises surface collective narratives to rewrite history from below.

This public installation features megaphone sculptures sharing rezoning plans in Gowanus. Visitors respond via voice messages, contributing directly to community oversight efforts.

This healing garden in Holma, Sweden, was planted with medicinal species chosen by residents to commemorate 25 years of community self-organization. It fosters collective care through shared planting and public programs.

Installed in Murcia, this indoor garden used peppers and grow lights to represent cultural identity. It mapped population and tradition across five local towns.

This site-specific project invited Manhattan immigrants to select plants tied to their origins, creating a living sculpture in Duarte Square. It transforms a public plaza into a communal garden, blending plant migration with personal stories.

This garden in Valencia featured plants chosen by immigrants, mapped onto La Nau’s cloister. It visualized migration stories through living species and public dialogue.

Installed in Fort Greene Park, this community garden invited participants to plant species tied to their migration stories. Shaped like a Brooklyn block, it became a living map of cultural memory.

This platform explores how AI shapes creative futures through an ethical lens. Browse a dynamic library, chat with an AI-powered guide, or visualize data trends, all designed to interrogate what it truly means to create with intention.