Public Space

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:

A short video (5:33 min.) by M.C. Overholt (M.E.D 2021) investigates that ubiquitous feature of the American cultural landscape, espeically during election season:  the yard-sign.  

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.”

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.