Drawing Together, New York City’s social and ecological resilience project, won the 2022 Norman B. Leventhal City Prize.
The project is a collaboration between MIT faculty, researchers, and students, and the Green City Force (GCF), a nonprofit organization in New York City. GCF trains young people for sustainability-focused careers while serving the local public housing community.
The winning proposal was submitted by a team led by Miho Mazereeuw, associate professor at MIT and director of the Urban Risk Lab. Professor Nicolas de Monchaud, Head of the Department of Architecture. Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga PhD ’21, Department of Architecture and his postdoc at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Tonya Gale, Executive Director of Green City Force.
Through Service Corps (in partnership with AmeriCorps service and training programs nationwide), GCF trains young residents of New York City Housing Department public housing and participates in large-scale environmental and health initiatives in public housing and other local communities. I am making it possible.
The Drawing Together team will work with the GCF on an urban farming initiative, ‘Eco-Hub’. In a co-design effort, Drawing Together will create a new digital platform that supports community-driven planning and design processes for the placement, design, and operation of these spaces. The platform also makes it easy to scale up community engagement with Eco-Hubs.
The $100,000 triennial prize was established in 2019 by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) to promote innovative, interdisciplinary urban design and planning approaches around the world to Improve the environment and the quality of life of its inhabitants. The first winner was “Malden River Works for Waterfront Equity and Resilience,” a civic waterfront space project in Malden, Massachusetts.
The call for entries for the 2022 Reventhal City Awards called for proposals with a focus on digital urbanism. It explores how life in cities can be improved using digital tools that are fair and responsive to social and environmental conditions. Judges considered project proposals that use evolving data sources and computational techniques to transform the quality of life in metropolitan settings to deliver new urban design and planning solutions.
“Digital Urbanism is the intersection of cities, design and technology, and a way to identify new ways to incorporate technology and design into cities,” said LCAU Director Sarah Williams. “Drawing Together perfectly illustrates how digital urbanism can help co-develop design solutions and improve the quality of life of ordinary people.”
The team will incorporate digital skills into GCF’s current employee training offering, with the goal of developing and integrating a sustainability-focused data science curriculum that supports sustainable urban farming within the eco-hub. Extend as
“What’s most exciting about this project is that young people are authors, not passive subjects of urban transformation,” says Norman B. Leventhal, president and chief curator of the Boston Public Library’s Center for Maps and Education. Juror Garrett Dash Nelson said. “By taking the architecture of information and design and placing it at the center of youth-led decision-making on environmental planning, this project has the potential to invigorate a new participatory paradigm that resonates well beyond New York City. I have.”
“In addition to a community-based digital approach to urban environmental design, this project has the potential to enhance numeracy skills in the green employment opportunities for youth offered by the Green City Force EcoHub.” Judge James Wescote (MIT Aga Khan Emeritus Professor) said: of landscaping and geography.
In addition to Nelson and Wescote, this year’s competition judges included Lillian Corral, Director of National Strategy and Innovation at the Knight Foundation. a | Jose Castillo, principal of 911 and professor of urban planning at CENTRO University. and Nigel Jacob, Senior Fellow at Northeastern University Barnes Center for Global Impact.
The awards jury has identified two finalists. The Co-HATY Accelerator Team is a multidisciplinary project that helps provide housing and social support to displaced people in Ukraine. Teams of city planners, information technologists, architects and sociologists are using digital technology to better connect residents and housing opportunities across the country. Team His members include Brent D. Ryan, associate professor of urban design and public policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anastasia Ponomaryova, an urban designer and co-founder of HATY.
“The Ukrainian team’s proposal highlights the relevance of architecture and planning in the context of humanitarian crises,” says Castillo. Technologies, methods, and knowledge should be deployed to solve problems “as needed.” Contrary to the view of architecture and planning as a ‘slow practice’, where the design process, research, education, and buildings take a long time to develop and complete, this research is a continuation of the It shows an agile yet thorough approach. “
The second finalist is “Ozymandias: Using Artificial Intelligence to Map Urban Power Structures to Equitable Outcomes for All,” a project led by the Architectural Association of Portland, Maine. . The team behind this project seeks to encourage broader public participation and positive change in local government. By using his new AI computational tools to uncover power structures and decision-making patterns, the team hopes to highlight modifiable but previously unrecognized inequalities. The principal investigator for this project is Jeff Levine, a lecturer in the Department of Urban Research and Planning at MIT and former director of planning and urban development in Portland.
“The Ozymandias Project recognizes an important truth about urban decision-making: it is neither a bottom-up nor a top-down structure, but an intertwined and often ambiguous network of formal and informal power systems. There is,” Nelson says. “By bringing an analytical approach to long-standing questions about civic behavior, who actually governs democratic systems? It provides an exciting methodology for exploring why things often fail.”
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