Testbeds at MoMA
2023
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Architecture Now: New York, New Publics
Cultural (Completed)
with Samuel Stewart-Halevy
Photography: Michael Vahrenwald/Esto
Testbeds is featured in MoMA’s 2023 exhibition New York, New Publics alongside a collection of twelve public-facing works that create a more accessible, sustainable and equitable New York City. The exhibition is the museum’s inaugural installation of Architecture Now, a new periodic exhibition series that will serve as a platform to highlight emerging talent and foreground groundbreaking projects in contemporary architecture.
2023
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Architecture Now: New York, New Publics
Cultural (Completed)
with Samuel Stewart-Halevy
Photography: Michael Vahrenwald/Esto
Testbeds is featured in MoMA’s 2023 exhibition New York, New Publics alongside a collection of twelve public-facing works that create a more accessible, sustainable and equitable New York City. The exhibition is the museum’s inaugural installation of Architecture Now, a new periodic exhibition series that will serve as a platform to highlight emerging talent and foreground groundbreaking projects in contemporary architecture.
For this installation we presented Testbeds through four diptych prints and a board game alongside a museum-commissioned video by the filmmaker Hudson Lines. Each diptych presents a single mockup in two instances: on the left, in various testing and storage scenarios (installed in a sales gallery, in a storage lot surrounded by overgrown grass, getting tested for water resistance, staged on site for a design review). On the right, in its various possible afterlives in community gardens (as a casita, a greenhouse, a stage, a farmstand). Off the gallery walls sits a board game that illustrates the meandering paths each mockup might take to find its new location—featuring the many characters, obstacles, bureaucracies and systems of support that a project of this scale might encounter leading to its final build-out.