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:
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.
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.
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.”
Interactive exhibit and group discussion at the Armory Community Garden.
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.
“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.”
In anticipation a lengthy construction closure of the Grand Avenue Bridge, the New Haven Economic Development Administration hosted an event to celebrate the bridge and engage residents in the surrounding neighborhoods of Fair Haven and Fair Haven Heights.
Digital edition of a printing of 1,000 copies of The Armory Newsprint 1.1.
Interactive print engagement with the Goffe Street Armory. Includes editorial by co-chairs of the Armory Community Advisory Committee, Nadine Horton and Elihu Rubin. Distributed at Gather New Haven Festival, September 18, 2022.
A participatory exhibit about the past, present, and future of the New Haven Armory on Goffe Street. Excavating the Armory launched at City-Wide Open Studios Armory Weekend, October 14 & 15, 2017, and continues as an online forum and citizen organization with the goal of conserving the Armory as a shared civic resource. We join those who care about the future of the Armory and invite your participation.
At the Armory, we created a five-part strategy to uncover the physical and social qualities and potentials of the building:
