Design studios taught by @lindsayharkema

Honored that my essay “Self, Standpoint, Network: Learning from the Autoethnographic Methods of Reproductive Justice” is in good company in @dimensions.journal Vol. 4 No. 8: Changing Spatial Practices: Alliances, Activism, and Networks edited by Kadambari Baxi, Isabel Glogar, Gabu Heindl, Bernadette Krejs, and Tatjana Schneider. The essay highlights multiple scales of reproductive justice efforts and organizations that draw from personal lived experiences to build common grounds and just futures, featuring student work by Valeska Abarca, Nathaly Castillo, Mauricio Guidos (@spitzerschool_ccny ‘23, ‘24) and the Spatializing Reproductive Justice exhibition co-curated with @labrown @bryony_roberts_studio @fluffffstudio and displayed at @columbiagsapp @centerforarch and @uwm_sarup Sincere thanks to all collaborators and experts who offered their knowledge to this work. Link to the Open Access E-book: /media/pdf/8d/79/9e/oa9783839473498.pdf

Models and drawings of reimagined streetscapes at 125th & Broadway as places for people, from the Spring 2025 Environments & Mediations studio @bcarchitecture . As always, a joy to teach. Student work by Eva Wuerth, Ella Werstler, Yuzuki Yamaoka, Maya Beltran, Ardalan Tayebi, Ella Rosewarne, Isabella Recordati, Leela Young, and Kennedy Thompson

Whose Streets?! ✨ This semester in my Environments & Mediations studio @bcarchitecture , students have studied their own experiences on urban streets and applied their analyses to design wearable and inhabitable architects to make them more human-centered. Highlights from the first half of the semester here - looking forward to the final review this week! Work by Ella Werstler, Eleanor Lewis, Eva Wuerth, Diorannj Pepin, Maia Beltran, Kevin Magos, Leela Young, Ella Rosewarme, Yuzuki Yamaoka, Michi Parsa, Silvana Gonzalez Vazquez, Isabella Recordati, Kennedy Thompson, Ardalan Tayebi, Luis Flores-Acevedo, and Kevin Rodriguez-Romero

Starting off the semester by returning to Jenny Odell’s “How to Do Nothing” and it meets the moment.

“Shifting Figures” final gallery installation co-created by the high school students of the Barnard Architecture + Design Summer Institute co-instructed by myself and Elsa Mäki with along with our student course assistants Grace Schleck, Silvia Giordano, and Isabelle Fishbein. Culmination of an incredible three week intensive pre-college program! This was the second year of the @bcarchitecture Summer Institute program, created by Karen Fairbanks. So fun to hang out with and create with this group for the past three weeks! 🔥 Photos courtesy of Grace Schleck.

Please join us this evening at the Center for Architecture from 5:30-8pm for the opening of “Spatializing Reproductive Justice”, an exhibition that raises awareness about the inequities of reproductive healthcare after the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the agency of designers to expand access amidst present and longstanding challenges. The exhibition features the research and design work of SSA students in the Fall 2022 “National Care: Abortion Access, Reproductive Justice on Federal Land” advanced studio taught by Lindsay Harkema, alongside student work from other institutions, professional projects, and activist networks. The show will be on display until September 3, 2024. Curators: Lindsay Harkema, Lori A. Brown, Bryony Roberts with FLUFFFF Studio Exhibition Designer: FLUFFFF Studio (Natalya Dikhanov and Sadie Imae) @lindsayharkema @labrown @bryony_roberts_studio @fluffffstudio @spitzerschool_ccny @centerforarch

AFFIRMATIVE ARCHITECTURES Student visions for new public spaces in East Harlem La Marqueta + the Park Ave cultural corridor On display at La Marqueta @lamarquetanyc 1590 Park Ave, New York, NY 10029 March 19 - April 9, 2024 Community Opening: Wednesday April 3, 2024 5-8pm Created by Cornell University Dept. of Architecture students @cornell.architecture @cornellaap with support from NYC EDC @nycedc About Affirmative Architectures: Public spaces are often generic and neutral, indicative of a one-size-fits-all planning approach that deemphasizes difference, site-specificity, and the range of embodied needs of the whole population they should serve. How could we design public spaces and facilities that celebrate human diversity, enable self-expression, preserve cultural heritage, welcome change, and facilitate access? How could shared spaces be more beneficial to and representative of the people and communities closest to them? In the series of projects displayed, students explore possibilities for affirmative architectures under the Park Avenue viaduct from 112th to 125th Streets in East Harlem. Focusing on the local history and context of La Marqueta, students learned about the past, present, and future of this important public space as a cultural center in the El Barrio neighborhood. They engaged local community organizations and community members to learn about their unique interests, needs, and desires. Through their research and design proposals, the students respond to the neighborhood’s multi-cultural heritage, ongoing community-led initiatives and planning efforts, and present urban challenges for La Marqueta and the Park Ave cultural corridor within the broader context of East Harlem. The hope is that the student work can contribute toward ongoing community efforts, planning, and visioning for what La Marqueta and the Park Ave corridor could become in the future. Students: Maresa Amador Sebastian Octavio Contreras Austin Couch Miriam Gitelman Berk Korkmaz Tongbi Li Gabriella Melton Jan Suttahathai Niyomwas Sung Ho Synn Instructed by Lindsay Harkema

AFFIRMATIVE ARCHITECTURES Student visions for new public spaces in East Harlem La Marqueta + the Park Ave cultural corridor On display at La Marqueta @lamarquetanyc 1590 Park Ave, New York, NY 10029 March 19 - April 9, 2024 Community Opening: Wednesday April 3, 2024 5-8pm Created by Cornell University Dept. of Architecture students @cornell.architecture @cornellaap with support from NYC EDC @nycedc About Affirmative Architectures: Public spaces are often generic and neutral, indicative of a one-size-fits-all planning approach that deemphasizes difference, site-specificity, and the range of embodied needs of the whole population they should serve. How could we design public spaces and facilities that celebrate human diversity, enable self-expression, preserve cultural heritage, welcome change, and facilitate access? How could shared spaces be more beneficial to and representative of the people and communities closest to them? In the series of projects displayed, students explore possibilities for affirmative architectures under the Park Avenue viaduct from 112th to 125th Streets in East Harlem. Focusing on the local history and context of La Marqueta, students learned about the past, present, and future of this important public space as a cultural center in the El Barrio neighborhood. They engaged local community organizations and community members to learn about their unique interests, needs, and desires. Through their research and design proposals, the students respond to the neighborhood’s multi-cultural heritage, ongoing community-led initiatives and planning efforts, and present urban challenges for La Marqueta and the Park Ave cultural corridor within the broader context of East Harlem. The hope is that the student work can contribute toward ongoing community efforts, planning, and visioning for what La Marqueta and the Park Ave corridor could become in the future. Students: Maresa Amador Sebastian Octavio Contreras Austin Couch Miriam Gitelman Berk Korkmaz Tongbi Li Gabriella Melton Jan Suttahathai Niyomwas Sung Ho Synn Instructed by Lindsay Harkema

Affirmative Architectures Fall 2023 Option Studio @cornellaap @cornell.architecture ✨ A collective proposal for affirmative public spaces and amenities under the Park Ave viaduct from 111th to 125th Ave in East Harlem, informed by thoughtful research and student-led community engagement. Thank you to a wonderful group of students: Austin Couch Berk Korkmaz Gabriella Melton Jan Suttahathai Niyomwas Maresa Amador Miriam Gitelman Sebastian Contreras Sung Ho Synn Tongbi Li

Fantastic final review for the Affirmative Architectures studio @cornellaap Thank you students for your thoughtfulness, care, and meaningful collaboration. And to our wonderful guest critics Jennifer Newsom, Caitlin Blanchfield, Nandini Bagchee, Ian Fletcher, Jeffrey Chusid, and Nick Cassab. Affirmative Architecture students: Jan Suttahathai Niyomwas Sung Ho Synn Tongbi Li Miriam Gitelman Austin Couch Berk Korkmaz Maresa Amador Gabriella Melton Sebastian Contreras

Production mode! Looking forward to the final review of the Affirmative Architectures option studio next Wednesday, 12/6 at 12:30pm in the Sibley Dome. @cornell.architecture

✨Affirmative Architectures✨Studio Mid Review, October 27, 2023 with guest critics Hanna Tulis, Imani Day, and Michael Jefferson 💫💫💫 Congratulations students! Tongbi Li Jan Suttahathai Niyomwas Sung Ho Synn Miriam Gitelman Berk Korkmaz Maresa Amador Gabby Melton Sebastian Contreras Austin Couch