Uneven Growth Exhibit at MoMA

MoMA launched a new exhibit in November titled Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities. It is part of a 14-month long project that focuses on the current housing situations in New York City, and the dialogue and action that result. Various faculty and staff of Parsons urban programs helped make this exhibit possible. The following is a summary from Cohabitation Strategies website:

This exhibition is addressing the ongoing uneven development across New York City’s boroughs by designing a radically new affordable housing program (Cooperative Housing Trusts) and by exposing— through local narratives— the economic, social and spatial inequalities mirrored in the unprecedented housing crisis. The narratives describe the experiences of local advocates for housing justice —citizens, activists, artists, writers, community organizers, academics and urban experts. They reveal the other New York City by exposing some of the agents and outcomes of illegal conversions, homelessness, foreclosures, land values, vacancies and re-zoned inner city areas.
Besides depicting dramatic inequalities, the narratives provide potential instruments already taking place in the city to counteract the biggest housing crisis in the modern history of New York City. Some of these approaches were incorporated into the actionable permanent-affordable housing program we designed. A series of local and international workshops with participants engaged in housing and urban activism were organized to envision and discuss such tactics.

Below are photos from behind the scenes of making the documentary Uneven Growth – New York, which is one part of the MoMA exhibit.

Parsons participants included Raquel de Anda, Santiago Giraldo, Juan Pablo Pemberty, Miguel Robles-Durán, Gabriela Rendón and Jonathan Lapalme.

To learn more about Cohabitation Strategies (founded by Parsons faculty Miguel and Gabriela), the Uneven Growth project and Cooperative Housing Trusts, check out the project page here.