Research and Design Project 2024

Design and Urban Ecologies - The New School, Parsons


This project exists as one of ten parts of the Bushwick Tenant Toolkit written and designed by my Studio 2 cohort in the Design and Urban Ecologies program at Parsons. The “So you wanna organize?” zine and booklet was developed in collaboration with Aqdas Fatima.

The zine and toolkit section details Bushwick specific tools, methods, and resources for tenant organizing. The section also contains tear out handouts to guide residents through the steps of begining a tenants association in their building. The zine and section also connects residents with other local organizers and resources.

The toolkit was create in response to participatory research in collaboration with the Bushwick Housing Independence Project and Bushwick residents. The research is detailed in the report below, that discusses both primary and secondary research into Bushwick’s social and economic composition, bushwick’s housing conditions, as well as land use and zoning regulation overtime in Bushwick. Additionally the research booklet explains the primary participatory research we conducted in the form of public faculty and radical listening workshops beging with the question: 

How does your housing situation affect your quality of life?
view rearch report ︎︎︎

special thanks to: 

amy collado + rossy emil, bushwick housing independence project
cynthia tobar, cities for people, not for profit
jazmin torres, el puente

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bushwick residents!!