The Practice of Democracy
Event
A webinar discussion of “The Practice of Democracy: A View from Connecticut.”
The event was a lot of fun! Stay tuned for link to Zoom recording.
City Planning
Rudolph and Renewal
Project
21 min video
An American Beat Film, produced by Elihu Rubin, directed and edited by Stephen Taylor
Produced in association with the Yale Digital Media Center for the Arts: Lee Faulker, Sarah Lasley, Laraine Sammler; and the Yale School of Architecture: Robert A.M. Stern, Dean Sakamoto, Dana Keeeton, Britt Eversole, Ian Mills
Re-Discovering and Re-Imagining the Staten Island North Shore Railroad
Project
Staten Island’s North Shore Railroad corridor is defunct and largely disused. This project, initiated in the Core 4 Urbanism Studio at YSOA, is a research-based public engagement that questions the past, present, and future of this potentially valuable civic asset.
The work was installed at the Stapleton Branch of the New York Public Library in Staten Island, open to the public between April 12 and April 20, with two faciliated workshops.
Research: Ariel Bintang, Jerry Chow, Janice Chu
Installation Design and Workshops: Janice Chu
Urban Research Round Robin
Event
Yale School of Architecture students in Arch 4219, Urban Research & Representation, create 9 research-based and participatory exhibits for a public in the Community Room of the Ives Main Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street; plus a shared exhibit, the Collective Memory Map. Participants get a stamp at each station and fill out the Passport.
Read the write-up in the New Haven Independent here:
A People's Guide to Infrastructure in New Haven
Project
Created in 2014 by students in “Infrastructure: Politics and Design,” an undergarduate seminar at Yale University listed in Architecture and Political Science and taught by Elihu Rubin.
Oak Street Historical Society Signage
Project
When Route 34 was built through the heart of New Haven in the late 1950s, it meant the displacement of the Oak Street neighborhood. In 2016, YSOA students Maddy Sembler, Justin Leonard, Jason Kurzweil, and Matthew Zuckerman formed an Oak Street Historical Society to create a “historical wayfinding system,” retrieving quotations from the New Haven Redevelopment Agency archives and other sources that were used in the discourse of Urban Renewal and printing them on corrugated plastic signs.
Spaces for Democracy: The Goffe Street Armory as Civic Infrastructure
Event
As part of the series “Democracy in America,” a collaboration between Public Humanities at Yale and the New Haven Free Public Library, Elihu Rubin will be in conversation with Matthew Jacobson to discuss the topic “Spaces for Democracy: The Goffe Street Armory as Civic Infrastructure.”
It's Our Armory!
Event
Interactive exhibit and group discussion at the Armory Community Garden.
Armory Workshop
Event
An afternoon of community gardening and interactive group activities about the past, present, and future of the Goffe Street Armory. Activities included a building scavenger hunt; history newsprint; postcards to the city; Armory power-mapping; and futures chalkboard.
An Interpretive Tour of New Haven Parks
Project
“The aim of this booklet is to take you on a tour of New Haven through space and through history to examine what this city’s parks have been, are now, and can be in the future. Thank you for reading.”
