Museum Exchange Network
2019
New York City
Cultural (Reuse)
with NYC Department of Sanitation
We have teamed up with New York City’s Department of Sanitation to understand how, through rewriting the space of the museum, we might consider new design methods and new circulations of stuff to minimize refuse.
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There is a kind of delirium in working with museums and galleries around New York. Exhibitions are temporary, shows go up and come down as fast as you can remember to visit them. On the one hand, this means the various institutions that house them are in constant flux; they are hosts whose interiors assume new identities with each show, whose surfaces are constantly hidden and walls constantly rearranged. And while this may be fascinating when considering architecture’s elastic insides, it is also distressing when considering waste.
We have teamed up with New York City’s Department of Sanitation to understand how, through rewriting the space of the museum, we might consider new design methods and new circulations of stuff to minimize refuse. This work oftentimes results in new details, atypical material choices, and the creation of invisible exchange networks.
2019
New York City
Cultural (Reuse)
with NYC Department of Sanitation
We have teamed up with New York City’s Department of Sanitation to understand how, through rewriting the space of the museum, we might consider new design methods and new circulations of stuff to minimize refuse.
There is a kind of delirium in working with museums and galleries around New York. Exhibitions are temporary, shows go up and come down as fast as you can remember to visit them. On the one hand, this means the various institutions that house them are in constant flux; they are hosts whose interiors assume new identities with each show, whose surfaces are constantly hidden and walls constantly rearranged. And while this may be fascinating when considering architecture’s elastic insides, it is also distressing when considering waste.
We have teamed up with New York City’s Department of Sanitation to understand how, through rewriting the space of the museum, we might consider new design methods and new circulations of stuff to minimize refuse. This work oftentimes results in new details, atypical material choices, and the creation of invisible exchange networks.