Projects

Working with People

This project, with its straight-forward working title “Working with People” creates a critical framework for the increasing interest that has emerged in working with people beyond the academy, in collaborative and generative practices.

The Triangle Fire Open Museum

The Open Museum shows real and replica objects from the Open Archive in locations across the city that critically connect to issues of immigrant, women’s and labor rights.

Layered SPURA / City Studio

The product of our City Studio class at the New School – exhibitions over 4 years exploring a contested urban space on the Lower East Side.

Layered SPURA : Guided Tour cards

These cards are part of the Layered SPURA Guided Tours project for the SPURA walking tours on which we guide students and others.

The Triangle Fire Open Archive

An ongoing participatory online archive, it understands the significance of the Triangle Fire site through historical narrative and human connection.

Hybrid ways of doing

Exploring Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani and Elliott Maltby’s co-teaching and rethinking of public space, to hybridize theory, research and practice.

Urban Encounters

Our annual interdisciplinary conference on visual urbanism, in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London and the Tate Britain.

Guided Tour

Photographic and ethnographic work exploring everydayness in Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA.

The America Project

A teaching method interpreting the community-based work of poet Sekou Sundiata, edited and designed by Buscada as a publication and DVD set for civic engagement.

Changing Cities

An retrospective exhibition designed and co-curated by Buscada on 75 years of planning at MIT.

MIT : Wolk Gallery

Buscada’s ongoing work on the graphic identity and print materials for the Wolk Gallery at MIT.

By Way of Broadway

An exhibition designed by Buscada of the work of architectural photographer Cervin Robinson

Policy & Design for Housing

An exhibition designed and curated by Buscada on the architecture of the Urban Development Corporation.

Making Housing Home

An exhibition photographed and curated by Buscada exploring sense of home in 3 affordable housing developments.

Playground

A participatory public art project created by Buscada to explore imagined communities.

Attachments to Liberty

An ethnographic report for the Nation Park Service, undertaken by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani as part of Public Space Research Group at the CUNY Graduate Center

Parque Lezama

Conceiving of urban public meeting spaces as integral to the definition of a community’s identity, and…

Villa 31 : Peti’s Tour

A Buscada photo-narrative essay on life in one of Buenos Aires’ informal settlements.

Tendai’s Tour

A Buscada guided tour project with a teenage boy in London’s East End.

Lost & Found

A web and installation piece of photographs found and collected on the streets of several cities, tracing Gabrielle’s urban perambulations over 10 years.