How can we live together? Reset: Towards a New Commons, on view this summer at the Center for Architecture in New York, offers some answers. Co-curated by Barry Bergdoll and Juliana Barton and designed by Natasha Jen of Pentagram, the exhibition showcases models for collective habitation that aim to overturn unjust planning practices. As was done with Bergdoll’s 2012 exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, organizers matched four interdisciplinary teams to four sites in cities across the country: In Berkeley, California, Irene Cheng, David Gissen, and Chip Lord, et al., explore housing for the disabled; in Oakland, THE OPEN WORKSHOP, Ignacio G. Galán, and Karen Kubey, et al., imagine an infrastructure for eldercare; in East Harlem, Deborah Gans, Kate Levy, and students from Pratt Institute, et al., revitalize public playscapes; and Architensions, Parc Office, and Sharon Egretta Sutton decolonize a Cincinnati suburb.
Reset: Towards a New Commons
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, New York
Through September 3, 2022
