Mapping | Yale Urban Media Project

Field Methods on Howe

Event

Students from the Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Environment share their interactive, New Haven-based research projects with a public at 68 Howe Street, the Miya’s Sushi Building. Visitors received a “Participation Punch Card” which they filled out with stickers and stamps as they engaged with students and discussed their projects.

Article in the New Haven Independent features student projects, in particular Karina Encarnaçion’s study of the Miya’s Building itself:

Connecticut Mills, Rivers, and Rails

Project

Connecticut has a rich industrial heritage. In this map, Abby Reed shows the number of mills (represented by size of circle); mill type (Orange = Brass/Metals; Green = Manufacturing; Yellow = Textiles); as well as the Rivers, Railroads, and Highways that make up the State’s basic transportation and power-delivery infrastructure.

New Haven Clock Factory: History and Networks

Project

Rukshan Vathupola’s website explores the local, regional, and global networks connected to the New Haven Clock Company and its factory buildings on Hamilton Street.

Memory Map Locates Town-Gown Bridge

News

“On the Collective Memory Map, anyone with a pen could claim authority in defining the unlabeled streets of the city. the resulting diagram revealed the places in New Haven that are especially meaningfuly to each participant, from Popeye’s on Whalley to the old English Station power plant building to the ‘Yale Business School.’”

Collective Memory Mapping at the Institute Library

Event

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:

New Haven Industrial Heritage Trails

Project

Research partners include the New Haven Musuem, the New Haven Free Public Library, and Sterling Memorial Library.

New Haven Building Archive

Project

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

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.