multipliCITIES: experiments in co-habitation

PS122 Gallery, New York

This exhibition presents work from two Parsons School of Design courses, The City through the Body and Designing Multispecies Cities. In these courses, students engaged in a series of activities, went on site visits, and collaborated to explore how ecological and social issues intersect in the city. From community gardens to the performative potential of becoming other, the shared program investigated how embodied and sensorial experience can suggest a different formulation of the city as a more-than-human collectivity. The students’ projects reflected on this as they explored living habitats, inter-species relations, future narratives, bodily presences, and sensorial connections as ways to question normative conceptions of urban living. Over the course of the semester, students met and worked with artists Miriam Simun, Peter Cramer and Jack Waters, Sheba Legend, and Nicolas Baird and Lee Pivnik from the Institute of Queer Ecology.  Exhibition catalogue.