Designers

Jason Anderson received his M.Arch from Princeton University’s School of Architecture. He recently won a Luce Scholarship to spend a year in Beijin…

Jason Anderson received his M.Arch from Princeton University’s School of Architecture. He recently won a Luce Scholarship to spend a year in Beijing, China, working on urban architecture projects and teaching.

Jason Anderson has worked on Building Codes, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, The Programmable City, Governors Island Points of Interest, Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!, Code City

Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from logos, web sites and books, ...

Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from logos, web sites and books, to self-published projects and collaborations. In addition to running her studio she teaches Advanced Publication Design to seniors in the degree program at Parsons School of Design. During 2002-2004 she served on the Executive Board of the New York AIGA.
Prior to founding a company of her own in the summer of 2005, Stella founded Honest with Cary Murnion and Jon Milott while the three were attending Parsons School of Design. After five years at Honest, she left to work for The New York Times Magazine and then went on to be a Design Director with the Brand Integration Group at Ogilvy and Mather.
Stella’s work has been featured in Print, Res, How, Step, Black Book, Nylon and Eye, and she was featured in the book “Fresh Dialogue 3,” in addition to being one of the participants in the yearly event of the same name.

Stella Bugbee has worked on Building Codes, Important Housing Rights, The Programmable City, Code City

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Zoë Coombes is from Toronto. Her and her partner Francisco David Boira, are now 100% commited to the creation of software-driven design at the…

Zoë Coombes is from Toronto. Her and her partner Francisco David Boira, are now 100% commited to the creation of software-driven design at their Brooklyn-based business, Commonwealth.

Zoe Coombes has worked on The City without a Ghetto, The Subsidized Landscape, Garbage Problems

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Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner. In 2002, he received a Master in Urban Planning degree from the Harvard Design School. He is a principal of Inter…

Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner. In 2002, he received a Master in Urban Planning degree from the Harvard Design School. He is a principal of Interboro. In the past, he has worked as a planner for the New York City Department of City Planning, sLab Architects, and a number of other firms. He has organized and participated in several lectures and exhibitions, including “Tourisms: Conversations About the Consumption of Place,” a Harvard symposium that featured several prominent architects, planners, and academics. He is co-founder and curator of “Engaging the City: the Accompanied Library Lectures on Urbanism.” He has a BA in philosophy from Bard College.

Daniel D'Oca has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism

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Mari Fujita is trained as an architect. She is currently researching cultural and design practice in settlement-formation in disaster areas. As a f…

Mari Fujita is trained as an architect. She is currently researching cultural and design practice in settlement-formation in disaster areas. As a founding member of SpaceAgency, Mari is also involved with projects that “make space for knowledge and discussion of architecture in the public realm”.

Mari Fujita has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

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Kenneth Haller is an interaction designer, holding an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and a B.A. in Political Scienc…

Kenneth Haller is an interaction designer, holding an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. He is interested in photography, communicating visually as well as creating ubiquitous computer interactions.

Ken Haller has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

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Elizabeth Knafo has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities

Prem Krishnamurthy is a principle of the graphic design studio Project Projects and teaches design at the University of Connecticut.

Prem Krishnamurthy is a principle of the graphic design studio Project Projects and teaches design at the University of Connecticut.

Prem Krishnamurthy has worked on Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, The City without a Ghetto

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Adam Michaels is a New York City-based graphic designer.

Adam Michaels is a New York City-based graphic designer.

Adam Michaels has worked on Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street

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Valeria, a native New Yorker, coordinates the execution of design and education projects about the city’s inner workings as CUP's Program Manag…

Valeria, a native New Yorker, coordinates the execution of design and education projects about the city’s inner workings as CUP's Program Manager. She comes from a background in visual studies and film and architectural theory with a degree from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media (magna cum laude, 2004). In addition to working many years in the non-profit sector, she is an independent film curator specializing in scientific films. Valeria is also on pest-control patrol in the CUP office.

Valeria Mogilevich has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities, The Water Underground, Green Information Center, Tagging the Social Contract, Prison City Comix, Temporary Showroom, People and Buildings, Freedom and Incarceration, Making Policy Public

Oliver Neumann has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

Kentaro Okuda is an interaction designer. He holds an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. . He is currently the Directo…

Kentaro Okuda is an interaction designer. He holds an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. . He is currently the Director of Design at SGF Associates in New York where he develops innovative lighting systems using LED and glass fiber optics. He is interested in network technology and interaction design with tangible objects.

Kentaro Okuda has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

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David Reinfurt has worked on Social Security Risk Machine

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Damon Rich is an urban designer working at the grisly intersection of design, policy, and the public. His exhibitions use video, sculpture, graphic…

Damon Rich is an urban designer working at the grisly intersection of design, policy, and the public. His exhibitions use video, sculpture, graphics, and photography to investigate the political economy of the built environment. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Storefront for Art and Architecture and SculptureCenter (New York City), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Liepzig), and Netherlands Architecture Institute (Rotterdam). In 1997, he founded the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people understand and change the places they live, where he served as Creative Director for 10 years. Damon has taught design at institutions including the Parsons School of Design, Heritage High School, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Queens Library Adult Learning Center. He writes about architecture and politics for publications including the Village Voice, the Nation, Metropolis, and Architecture magazine. Damon has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts award for his work with adult literacy and architecture, as well as a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony for his work on the history of urban renewal. In 2007, Damon was selected as a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an Artist-in-Residence at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where he developed a pedagogical exhibition on architecture, real estate, and finance.

Damon Rich has worked on Public Housing 101, PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Building Codes, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, The City without a Ghetto, Urban Renewal Activity Tables, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street, The Center for Critical Skills, The Subsidized Landscape, The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People, Governors Island Points of Interest, Cybercity Walking Tour, Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Schoolyard Visions, Detroit Do Your Thing!, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism, The Water Underground, Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!, What's Poppin at Fulton Mall?, Code City, Temporary Showroom, Social Security Risk Machine, The Programmable City, Chew On This

Eric Schuldenfrei is a designer who focuses on the evolving relationship between animation, architecture, and art. He currently teaches in the Arc…

Eric Schuldenfrei is a designer who focuses on the evolving relationship between animation, architecture, and art. He currently teaches in the Architecture departments of Princeton and Columbia Universities.

Eric Schuldenfrei has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto

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Alice is an art-organizer, artist, designer, and investigator of city landscapes who has worked with various community art organizations, independe…

Alice is an art-organizer, artist, designer, and investigator of city landscapes who has worked with various community art organizations, independent publications and urbanism non-profits. She is currently completing degrees in Art-Semiotics and Urban Studies at Brown University with an Honors thesis project focusing on radical cartography.

Alice Shay has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Detroit Do Your Thing!

Thumb is a design office that works on both commissioned and speculative graphic communication projects, usually in the area of architecture and ur…

Thumb is a design office that works on both commissioned and speculative graphic communication projects, usually in the area of architecture and urban design. Thumb was established in New York as an independent office in 2004. Current members are Luke Bulman and Jessica Young with special assistance from Shoko Tagaya and Carolyn Thomas.

Thumb has worked on The Cargo Chain

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Oscar Tuazon has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Subsidized Landscape, Governors Island Points of Interest, Cybercity Walking Tour

Christine Williams has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism

Rosten Woo has been producing public education projects with CUP since 1999. He teaches design history and theory at Parsons, the New School for De…

Rosten Woo has been producing public education projects with CUP since 1999. He teaches design history and theory at Parsons, the New School for Design and produces historical research and writing on history, design and public policy for Place Matters, the Municipal Arts Society, Metropolis Magazine and the Village Voice. He has also worked as a researcher and policy analyst for a variety of non-profit organizations including Common Ground Community and the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center. He serves on the board of like-minded non-profits, Place in History and Groundswell Community Mural Project. He received his BA in Government from Cornell University.

Rosten Woo has worked on Entry Sequence, Public Housing 101, PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Center for Critical Skills, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street, Important Housing Rights, The Subsidized Landscape, Schoolyard Visions, Detroit Do Your Thing!, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism, The Water Underground, Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Code City, Knoxville: Building Communities, Mapping the Concourse, Temporary Showroom, People and Buildings, Just In/Justice, The Cargo Chain, Building Codes

Yiu is currently invited as a Design panelist for Rebuild Chinatown Initiative’s Chinatown Design Lab. She is also examining architecture and deve…

Yiu is currently invited as a Design panelist for Rebuild Chinatown Initiative’s Chinatown Design Lab. She is also examining architecture and developments in Hong Kong/China, issues relating to global outsourcing and New York City’s complex networks.

Marisa Yiu has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto

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