In 2022, GSAPP launched the Design Clinics, which have pioneered the possibility for faculty, researchers, and students from all the disciplines of the built environment – spanning architecture, real estate, urban planning, and historic preservation – to work hand-in-hand with communities and leaders in New York and across the world to provide impactful solutions to urgent and unprecedented crises that can only be addressed through an interdisciplinary approach. This format consolidates GSAPP’s legacy of anticipating formats that lead the evolution of the disciplines of the built environment by pioneering pedagogical formats never tested before – moving from knowledge to action and ideas to impact.
OVERGROWN/UNDERGROWTH: EAST FLATBUSH, led by Adam Lubinsky and Calvin Brown culminated in final report presentations to community stakeholders at the Flatbush Central Market. The report proposes solutions centered on community empowerment and sustainable development.
The Well School led by Bryony Roberts, co-instructor Abriannah Aiken, and associate faculty Angela Keele is interested in transforming architecture schools to support mental health and neurodiversity.
Extreme Scale, taught by Laurie Hawkinson, Wonne Ickx focused on adaptive reuse of the extra-large historic Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx. The course resulted in an exhibition of student proposals.
Dis/Abling Architecture: States of Play taught by Irina Verona, Jennifer Carpenter, Jerron Herman is an exploration of our shared environment through the lens of disability, beyond access
Transitions Studio taught by Anthony Clarke and Alonso L Ortega focuses on complex transition spaces for high needs individuals. The studio explores questions of care, ethics, autonomy, accountability and social responsibility.
