In Spring 2015, the MS Design and Urban Ecologies Studio 2 focused on urban mobilities. By ‘mobilities’ we refer to the capability of people and artifacts to move but also to the networks, infrastructures and flows that make them capable of movement and that enable mobility. Student teams focused on studying existing and designing new mobility infrastructures and systems along the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront, all in search for embedded possibilities in the spaces of mobility to act as the repository and relay for cultural imagination, community connections and for strengthening local ecological, economic, and political resources. By foregrounding mobilities as the theme of Studio 2, we proposed that mobility is a key for understanding processes of production of urban space, particularly in the context of globalization. Working to understand how urban citizenship is constituted by examining regimes and modes of urban mobility helped students define dimensions of the public realm and civil society that need articulation by creating new connectivities and re-energizing the existing ones.