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signs for businesses in the bed-stuy section of the bronx, a neighborhood qualifying for Neighborhood Now

Neighborhoods Now rallies design firms to lend COVID-19-hit communities reopening help

June 16, 2020

A single story black brick building on a street in Brooklyn, soon to be home to Van Alen Institute

Van Alen Institute will move to Gowanus in Spring 2020

December 12, 2019

Installation view of the Flatiron Holiday Design pavilion, a swirling string structure

Putting up the Holiday Lights

Hou de Sousa’s Flatiron Holiday Design installation is open

November 27, 2019

rendering of a multi-colored art installation located in a public plaza in new york city

High Hole-Y Days

Hou de Sousa is the winner of this year’s Flatiron Plaza Holiday Design Competition

October 10, 2019

A stacked, oval sculpture at a cross-roads in NYC's Chinatown

Gateway to Criticism

Proposed Chinatown sculpture stirs controversy in New York

August 5, 2019

Deborah Marton named Van Alen Institute’s new executive director

June 13, 2019

Photo of the Van Alen Institute storefront

Yet another design nonprofit leaves the street

January 15, 2019

Photo of the Van Alen Institute's office

New York’s Van Alen Institute has sold its building

December 4, 2018

Happy Cameron Blaylock

Because I'm Happy

Studio Cadena’s shimmery holiday installation takes over Flatiron Plaza

November 20, 2018

Van der Leaving

David van der Leer to leave Van Alen Institute, triggering search for successor

October 29, 2018

Meeting attendees overlooking Alameda Creek near Fremont, California. Council members’ time away from everyday responsibilities allows for collaboration and reflection on larger challenges.

Van Alen’s Climate Council takes a road trip to study climate change

October 29, 2018

Happy by Studio Cadena

Studio Cadena’s Happy wins Van Alen’s Flatiron Public Plaza Holiday competition

October 17, 2018