The Public Commons, Retroactive Worldbuilding

The premise of the studio is to design architecture for all manner of human cultures, compounded with other species and plant life, in explicit relationship to the environment and with each other. We will develop buildings with behaviors and duration, and apply it to Synthetic Nature and Augmented Architecture. To that end, we will 1. disrupt the traditional hierarchy Anthropocenic values where all of nature is in service to humans. We will then 2. focus this world into a protocommunity of synthetic beings made of people, flora, fauna, and new technologies who operate and dwell as a conservatory of new bodies of knowledge and forms of life. The site is in New York’s Central Park at the original site of Seneca Village, an African-American community that was displaced.