Dwelling in the Future: Imagining Tomorrow’s City

WHERE:
Museum of the City of New York
5th Avenue
New York, NY , USA
WHEN:
Wednesday, June 19, 6:30pm8:30pm
 

 

For the final program in our Housing Tomorrow’s City series, we ask a group of visionary urban thinkers, architects, and artists how New Yorkers might inhabit and experience the city several generations from now.  Featuring design researcher Alix Gerber, architect Mitchell Joachim, science fiction writer Sam Miller, and artist Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde. Expect a lively — and mind-expanding — evening of presentations and discussion. Moderated by K.A. Dilday, senior editor at CityLab.

Reception to follow.

About the Speakers:
Alix Gerber is a design researcher who works with people to visualize and enact the futures we imagine, striving to provoke discussion around how our society could be more equitable and meaningful. Most recently, Gerber has been developing and teaching courses at Washington University in St. Louis, such as Radical Design, where students imagine alternatives to civic experiences like policing, capitalism or voting. Gerber has also worked with residents of Harlem, New York and Ferguson, Missouri to explore alternatives to our current policing and court systems by making artifacts from divergent futures.

Mitchell Joachim, PhD, Assoc. AIA, is the co-founder of the architecture, urban design research, and consulting group Terreform ONE and an associate professor at NYU. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships with TED, Moshe Safdie, and Martin Society for Sustainability at MIT. Joachim is the winner of many awards including the AIA New York Urban Design Merit Award and the History Channel Infiniti Award for City of the Future. He is the co-author of three books, including XXL-XS: New Directions in Ecological Design (2016).

Sam J. Miller is the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (named best book of the year by VultureThe Washington Post, Barnes & Noble and one of the best “climate fiction” novels by O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine). A recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Miller’s short stories have been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus Awards, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. A community organizer by day, he lives in New York City.

Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde (ayo) is a Nigerian-American artist designer, educator, and time-traveler living and working in New York. His works range from painting and speculative design to physically interactive works, wearable technology and explorations of “Reclamation”. He has exhibited and presented at the 11th Shanghai Biennale, Tribeca Storyscapes, EYEO Festival, Brooklyn Museum, M.I.T. Beyond the Cradle, and Afrotectopia among others. Okunseinde holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design where he is currently an adjunct faculty member.

K.A. Dilday (moderator) is a senior editor at CityLab. She has lived and worked as a journalist in the United States, North Africa, and Europe, and held staff positions at media organizations including The New York Times and Essence Magazine.

This is the fifth event in our Housing Tomorrow’s City series, which explores the challenges and opportunities presented in the Museum’s Future City Lab, the interactive third gallery in our award-winning New York at Its Core exhibition.

$25 for Adults | $20 for Students, Seniors, and Educators (with ID)
$15 for Museum Members

Friends of the Urban Democracy Lab get a discount! Use code HOUSING1 for $15 tickets.]

Members: To receive your discount, click on the “Buy Tickets” button above, then sign in to your account on the ticketing page.

Groups of 10 or more get discounts; contact us at programs@mcny.org or 917.492.3395.

Accessibility: Assistive listening devices are available and our auditorium wheelchair lift can accommodate manual and motorized wheelchairs (max. capacity 500 lbs). Please contact the Museum at 917.492.3333 or info@mcny.org with any questions.

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Events

Housing Tech City? New York’s Future With(out) Amazon

WHERE:
Museum of the City of New York
5th Avenue
New York, NY , USA
WHEN:
Wednesday, April 17, 6:30pm8:30pm
 

Amazon has reneged on their plan to build their second corporate headquarters, HQ2, in Long Island City, Queens, due to opposition from local and state politicians and activists. As some New Yorkers rejoice and others feel that the city has missed an opportunity, the critical questions raised by Amazon’s impending arrival and sudden departure are as important as ever. Along with the promise of jobs and economic diversification came concerns about infrastructure, inequality, and the impact of the project on housing affordability—questions that will continue to affect the city with or without Amazon. Should New Yorkers be relieved or aggrieved? What’s next for the city’s relationship to big tech and big business?

Architect and professor Vishaan Chakrabarti; city planner and writer Alan Mallach; noted sociologist and globalization theorist Dr. Saskia Sassen, and community leader and activist Maritza Silva-Farrell discuss this critical moment in the city’s development, how cities like New York can continue to grow and remain vibrant and affordable in an economy increasingly dominated by large corporations, and what can be learned from the experiences of cities like San Francisco and Seattle. Moderated by New York magazine’s Justin Davidson.

$30 & up | $20 for Museum Members. Use code TECH17 for discounted tickets through 4/5/19.

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Events

Rooted in Place: Stories of Home in the City

WHERE:
Museum of the City of New York
1220
5th Avenue, New York , NY
WHEN:
Thursday, February 28, 6:30pm8:30pm
 

Thursday, February 28 at 6:30 pm at the Museum of the City of New York

In a city driven by the real estate market, where every inch of space is a commodity, it can be easy to overlook the personal, felt experience of having a home – and the daily struggles for those whose concept of home is threatened or elusive. Explore the emotional and psychological dimensions of personal space, home-making, and connections to place in a non-stop city like New York with an evening of stories and discussion featuring:

Zaheer Ali, Oral historian at Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS)
Eric Bunge, co-founding principal of nARCHITECTS, a Brooklyn-based architecture firm
Dr. Mindy Fullilove, author of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America
Annie Ling, documentary photographer featured in our current exhibition Interior Lives
Tanvi Misra (moderator), staff writer for CityLab, the urban-focused site of The Atlantic

This program is co-presented by CityLab. 

$20 & up | $15 for Museum Members. Register online at mcny.org/future. Use code HOUSING1 for discounted tickets!

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Alternate Visions: Bold Proposals for Housing New Yorkers

WHERE:
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10029
WHEN:
Thursday, December 6, 6:30pm8:30pm
 

 

Thursday, December 6 at 6:30 pm at the Museum of the City of New York

New York City is in the midst of an affordability crisis which poses an existential threat to the city’s characteristic vitality and diversity. Even during a time of rapid development in the affordable housing sector, many New Yorkers are being priced out the city and many more are struggling to pay the rent. Are existing plans to address the issue adequate, or is it time to consider more radical approaches? What are some big ideas for making New York housing more affordable?

Hear five distinct proposals — as diverse as the city itself — from thought-leaders and activists trying to reframe our current approach to housing. A discussion moderated by The Atlantic’sCityLab journalist Kriston Capps will follow.

This program is co-presented by CityLab. 

$20 & up | $15 for Museum Members. Register online at mcny.org/future. Use code HOUSING1 for discounted tickets!

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New York’s Housing Crisis: Which Way Forward?

WHERE:
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue New York, NY
WHEN:
Wednesday, October 3, 6:30pm8:30pm
 

What are the political, social, and economic forces shaping the future of housing in New York City and globally? How do we negotiate the ideals of development and community preservation, between maintaining affordability and attracting a larger tax base, and between the free market and government intervention? Economist Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City, joins sociologist Miriam Greenberg for a spirited exchange of ideas — moderated by WNYC reporter Matt Katz.

Exhibition viewing of the Museum’s Future City Lab to follow.

This is the opening event in our new series, Housing Tomorrow’s City, which explores the challenges and opportunities presented in the Museum’s Future City Lab, the interactive third gallery in the New York at Its Core exhibition. To view all of the programs in the series, click here.

The Urban Democracy Lab is a Series Affiliate for this program. As such, our community may use the code HOUSING1 to purchase tickets at the Museum Member rate of $15. 

About the Speakers:
Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and his work has since focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. Glaeser’s books include Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium (Oxford University Press, 2008), Rethinking Federal Housing Policy (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2008), and Triumph of the City (Penguin Press, 2011).

Miriam Greenberg is a professor of sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World (Routledge, 2008) and Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans (Oxford, 2014) and co-edited The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age (Cornell, 2017). Since 2013, she has been directing the Critical Sustainabilities project and, since 2015, she has been co-organizing No Place Like Home, a project on the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County.

Matt Katz (moderator) reports on air at WNYC about immigration, refugees, and national security. Katz formerly covered New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for more than five years. In 2015, he and a team from WNYC won a Peabody Award for their coverage of Christie and the Bridgegate scandal.

$25 for Adults | $20 for Students, Seniors, and Educators (with ID) | $15 for Museum Members
Includes Museum admission.

Members: To receive your discount, click on the “Buy Tickets” button above, then sign in to your account on the ticketing page.

Groups of 10 or more get discounts; contact us at programs@mcny.org or 917.492.3395.

Accessibility: Assistive listening devices are available and our auditorium wheelchair lift can accommodate manual and motorized wheelchairs (max. capacity 500 lbs). Please contact the Museum at 917.492.3333 or info@mcny.org with any questions.

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