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Van Alen Variety Show

Former St. Luke's Evangelical Church 259 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Photo: Cameron Blaylock Beneath the vaults of a vacant Clinton Hill church, we’ll explore the city’s ever-changing periphery through a fast-paced evening of performance, provocations, and presentations ranging from the realms of design, comedy, art, and activism: Artist Patrick Coyle delivers a new performance reflecting on historic and geographic associations of “the peripheral” Erin Markey

Spatial Poetics: Vale of Cashmere – Walking Tour and Writing Workshop

Prospect Park, Grand Army Plaza Entrance Brooklyn, New York City, NY, United States

Presented with Prospect Park Alliance Join us for an afternoon at the Vale of Cashmere, an overgrown Beaux-Arts garden on the northeast fringe of Prospect Park that is slated for future restoration. Following a tour of this lush and storied section of the Park withProspect Park Alliance chief landscape architect Christian Zimmerman, engage in a writing workshop

Van Alen Book Club: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Van Alen Institute 30 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, United States

Van Alen Book Club returns on January 12 with a discussion ofThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson. The book offers an intimate retelling of one of the greatest movements of population in U.S. history: From 1915 until the 1970s, six million African Americans

Memorials for the Future

The National Park Service (NPS), the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), and Van Alen Institute are collaborating on Memorials for the Future, an ideas competition to reimagine how we think about, feel, and experience memorials. Memorials for the Future calls for designers, artists, and social scientists to develop new ways to commemorate people and events that are more inclusive

L.E.S. Decoded

The Clemente 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, United States

Neighborhood Exploration & Conversation Presented by Van Alen Institute with TIPS (This is Public Space) & The Clemente How can we better grasp—and question—the complex building, city, and social codes that shape the neighborhoods around us? From the span of sidewalks and the lifetime of scaffolding to the rules of public restrooms and the limits

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L Train Shutdown Charette

Van Alen Institute 30 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, United States

Flash Competition by Van Alen Institute As neighborhoods along the L train brace for an interruption in service of unprecedented scale, this fast-paced competition asks interdisciplinary teams to propose implementable interventions that look beyond shuttle buses and private cars. Participants from both the design and non-design fields are invited to this program that asks how

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Person Place Thing: Jan Gehl

Van Alen Institute 30 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, United States

Live Radio Show Presented by Van Alen Institute Over the course of his career, Danish architect and planner Jan Gehl has redefined the role of the architect in public life, provoking the profession to consider the act of design in public space. The bike and pedestrian pathways in New York City that Gehl pioneered have

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