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organized by In the FieldGlobal housing crises are not abstract. They are visible and viscerally experienced on the ground where people sleep, gather, eat and raise their families. While conditions in distinct and distant cultures may differ, they are increasingly interrelated; so are the processes that generate these conditions. People are actively (and passively) unhoused by markets,

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NORC Planning and Architectural Support ServicePhase I: Listening to Co-op VillageThis piece of paper is part of the exhibition you just walked through. When we (INTERBORO) were asked to exhibit some of our recent architecture and planning work, we knew very little about Co-op Village, or about NORCs. Spending time here, however, has made us very curious about both. We especially love the idea

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"Community building," that is, the bringing together of people who share common interests, values, and desires, has become an extremely important feature of popular culture over the last couple of years. The success of social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.com rests upon their ability to generate advertising dollars by fostering communication and leveraging the interactive

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Common Room, an architecture outfit with an exhibition space, is housed in a small modernist office building that seems to have been designed by a student of a student of Mies van der Rohe. A scruffy non-renovated charm and pathos hangs heavily in the air. Set slightly back from the grid of Manhattan and turned slightly it couldn’t be better situated in fast gentrifying Seward Park Coops.

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common room 2 is a room in manhattan's lower east side which explores the production and use of the built environment.common room 2 is in the public lobby of a mid-century office building which houses several non-profit groups.common room 2 displays works and projects engaging the community in a dialogue about the structures of the built environment: including social, economic, and political

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