City as Living Laboratory: A Path to a Resilient and Equitable Public Realm
Leaflet Matrix Design Co-operative, 1980s, courtesy Jos Boys
Guest: Mary Miss (Artist, New York)
The current moment of cultural and environmental reckoning calls for a reinvention of urban space. With City as Living Laboratory (CALL) Mary Miss envisions a process where artists, scientists, planners, and community groups work together on developing a resilient and equitable public realm. As a young feminist in the 1970s, Miss worked on a number of collective initiatives from the AD HOC Women’s Committee to a role as a founding member of the feminist journal, Heresies. She advanced artistic projects beyond the walls of art museums, eventually expanding to the scale of the city. From these experiences, she created CALL, a nonprofit working nationwide with projects in Indiana, Wisconsin, and New York to address environmental challenges through direct experiences and collaboration.
