NYCxDesign Recap

by Caroline Bauer Posted on May 20, 2013

Last week the Design Trust hosted two events celebrating NYC’s booming design/production economy. The topic is near and dear to our hearts, but we curated each event for NYCxDesign- NYC’s inaugural citywide event to showcase and promote design of all disciplines. Recap of both below in case you weren’t able to join us.

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Miquela Craytor of NYCEDC, Cliff Pearson from Architectural Record and Yeohlee Teng of YEOHLEE at Making NYC for NYCxDesign. (photo by Sam LaHotz)

May 14, 2013 Making NYC: A Roundtable Discussion on Strategies to Maintain, Retain and Create Manufacturing in NYC

Making NYC convened the heavy hitters of our manufacturing economy to discuss the production hubs and incubators popping up across NYC. While the topic was inspired by Design Trust’s Making Midtown project, the panel placed the Garment District into the broader realm of manufacturing in the City by including Brooklyn Navy Yard president & CEO Andrew Kimball, NYCEDC director of industrial initiatives Miquela Craytor, and the CEO & founder of Manufacture NY Bob Bland.

Thanks to our quick-thinking moderator Cliff Pearson from Architectural Record, the conversation was lively and informative. Interestingly, the panelists quickly turned to the question of affordability.  Andrew Kimball pointed out that light industrial use brings in the same price per square foot as affordable housing for developers. This may very well be a major factor in the decline of manufacturing throughout the USA, but especially in NYC where the value of land is extraordinarily high.

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Brooklyn Navy Yard president & CEO Andrew Kimball at Making NYC. (photo by Sam LaHotz)
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Designer Yeohlee Teng of YEOHLEE and Design Trust founder & board president Andrea Woodner celebrate “Made in NYC” at Making NYC. (photo by Sa, LaHotz)
We debuted our snazzy new DT Council materials at Making NYC designed by Studio Lin!
We debuted our snazzy new DT Council materials at Making NYC designed by Studio Lin! (photo by Sam LaHotz)

If you’d like to hear more about what was discussed last Tuesday, email cbauer@designtrust.org for an audio recording of the evening.

 

 

Situ Studio's Heartwalk installed at Beach 95th Street in Far Rockaway, Queens
Situ Studio’s Heartwalk installed at Beach 95th Street in Far Rockaway, Queens

May 18, 2013 Heartwalk Returns to the Rockaways!

Situ Studio’s Heartwalk is settled into Beach 95th Street at the Rockaways (directly across from the MoMA PS1 VW Dome 2) from May 4 – June 11. We hosted a Public Space Potluck in the Heartwalk last Saturday with Nina Sweeney from the MoMA PS1 Dome and Situ Studio. Sadly, it was perhaps a bit too early in the season for an all-day beach hangout- it rained throughout and the A Line has yet to resume service to the Rockaways.

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A Public Space Potluck inside of Heartwalk @ Beach 95th Street, Rockaway, Queens NYC
Situ Studio's Instagram of the "intimate" Potluck in the Heartwalk
Situ Studio’s Instagram of the “intimate” Potluck in the Heartwalk

 

However, we still had an intimate (but fun) Potluck inside of Heartwalk, admiring the juxtaposition of the 30′ public art piece made of salvaged boardwalk with the VW Dome and the new elevated comfort stations popping up along the beach.

Inside the MoMa PS1 VW Dome 2
Inside the MoMa PS1 VW Dome 2

 

Old and new construction dotting the coastline in the Rockaways
Old and new construction dotting the coastline in the Rockaways

Rockaway Beach will reopen on Memorial Day, and A train service to Far Rockaway will resume on the 30th of May- two more reasons for you to make the trek to see Heartwalk at Beach 95th Street and support Rockaway businesses bouncing back after Hurricane Sandy.

Check out our Instagram feed for more photos from each event. We’re already brainstorming for NYCxDesign 2014!

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Deadline Approaching 5/23: 2013 Photo Urbanism Fellow

by Caroline Bauer Posted on May 20, 2013

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In tandem with our new project Under the Elevated: Reclaiming Space, Connecting Communities, we are also launching the 2013 Photo Urbanism Fellowship to focus on”life under and around elevated infrastructure in New York City.” The fellowship award includes a $5,000 cash prize and a book dedicated to the fellow’s work published at the project’s conclusion. The resulting photographs will inform Under the Elevated project, and also be considered for inclusion in the final project publication.

This year’s selection jury is an impressive line-up of photographers and critics. Chaired by Mark Robbins from the International Center for Photography, the jury also includes Iwan Baan, photographer; Linda Pollak, architect; Susanna Sirefman, designer + DT Board member; Rob Stephenson, 2011 Photo Urbanism Fellow; Erica Stoller of ESTO; and Paul Warchol, photographer.

Please click here to download the full fellowship description, including application instructions.

Applications are due on Thursday, May 23rd at 11:59 PM.

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Making NYC: a roundtable discussion on how to maintain, retain and create manufacturing in NYC

by Caroline Bauer Posted on May 9, 2013

DesignTrust_Made in NYCJoin us for our first NYCxDesign event!

Titled Making NYC: a Roundtable Discussion on Strategies to Maintain, Retain & Create Manufacturing in NYC, the event convenes key stakeholders to discuss the evolution of fashion manufacturing in the Garment District and beyond.

The roundtable will be moderated by Cliff Pearson, Deputy Editor, Architectural Record. Participants include:

Bob Bland, Director, Manufacture NY
Miquela Craytor, vice president of industrial initiatives, NYC Economic Development Corporation
Adam Friedman, Director, Pratt Center for Community Development
Andrew Kimball, President and CEO, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Tanya Menendez, Co-Founder, Maker’s Row
Nina Rappaport, Curator, Vertical Urban Factory Project and publications director, Yale School of Architecture
Yeohlee Teng, Founder/designer, YEOHLEE
Marianne Webber, Founder, Quick Turn Clothing 

The event is next Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 PM in the Parsons David Schwartz Fashion Education Center (560 Seventh Avenue).

Click here or here for more information on Making NYC

+ don’t forget to RSVP@designtrust.org!

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(Making NYC was organized for NYCxDesign, the ultimate design collaboration initiative for the NYC design community).

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Heartwalk Goes to the Rockaways! (A Public Space Potluck)

by Caroline Bauer Posted on May 9, 2013

Composite_DTPSAfter Times Square + DUMBO, Situ Studio’s HEARTWALK is returning for the Rockaways for the month of May.

Come to a Public Space Potluck with us, MoMA PS1 VW Dome 2 + Situ Studio to discuss the role of design in disaster recovery on Saturday, May 18 from 1-4 PM.

Click here or here for more event details. We want to see you there- with a dish to share!

Even if you can’t make the Potluck, you can visit Heartwalk in the Rockaways through June 4th. Tag your photos on instagram with #Heartwalk to see them here: www.heartwalkrockaway.com !


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(This Public Space Potluck was organized for NYCxDesign, the ultimate design collaboration initiative for the NYC design community).

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Project Launch!

by Caroline Bauer Posted on May 2, 2013

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Under the Elevated: Reclaiming Space, Connecting Communities will engage community leaders, planners, architects, artists, and cultural organizations to develop strategies to maximize the function, use, and spatial qualities of the millions of square feet of space underneath NYC’s bridges, and elevated highways, subways, and rail lines— from dark, litter-strewn expanses of parking under the BQE to arched gateways beneath the 1 train in Harlem.

“The sheer quantity of spaces that lie right before our eyes, unnoticed, as we New Yorkers go about our business, is staggering. NYC has nearly 700 miles of elevated infrastructure, with over 100 million square feet of underused space beneath,” says Susan Chin, FAIA, executive director of the Design Trust. “When you look at the impact the mile-and-a-half-long High Line has created, and then consider the potential of these spaces in neighborhoods across the five boroughs, you understand the magnitude of this undertaking.”

Under the Elevated will produce design guidelines as well as programming and policy recommendations that will inform the transformation of spaces citywide and around the world. Read the full press release.

 

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Check us out at the Food Book Fair on Saturday, May 4th!

by Caroline Bauer Posted on April 25, 2013

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Our Deputy Director Megan Canning + Director of Programs Rosamond Fletcher will be selling From Roof to Table and Five Borough Farm the Foodieodicals zine fest, a part of the Food Book Fair (food + periodicals = Foodieodicals). Stop by the Design Trust table, and make your way to see the other 20+ editors and writers participating. Round out your literary celebration experience with gratis snacks and a free beer from Brooklyn Brewery.

Saturday, May 4th 

2 – 8 PM

The Wythe Hotel

Please click here to purchase tickets.

PS: Use the discount code ILOVEFBF by April 29th for 20% off tickets! (Code for Foodieodicals tickets only)

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“Of and Belonging to the People,” a foreword by Megan Canning

by Caroline Bauer Posted on April 23, 2013


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Reclaiming Public Space in Downtown Nashville out today, complete with foreword from our Deputy Director, Megan Canning:  “With the publication of Reclaiming Public Space, Nashville citizens and local leaders now have a tool to guide them in a new wave of civic investment that is of and belonging to the people.”

Download the full book from the Nashville Civic Design Center  from Issuu.

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Susan Chin on Urban Agriculture in Crain’s NY

by Caroline Bauer Posted on April 23, 2013

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“Farm School NYC: a different kind of urban growth” by David Koeppel

“Susan Chin, executive director of the Design Trust for Public Space in New York, said Farm School NYC has arrived at an opportune time for the urban-farming movement. Ms. Chin sees opportunities for Farm School graduates to create new food hubs- networks that ‘manage the aggregation, storage, processing, distributing or marketing of locally and regionally produced food,’ according to the USDA- and find jobs in composting, a growing industry.

“They’re coming at a good moment because there’s so much interest in urban agriculture,” said Ms. Chin. “It can be a catalyst for revitalizing cities. There’s a need for food hubs, a need for people in the compost industry. Getting folks plugged into these areas can be a bridge for so many grads.”

Read the full article here.

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