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The series began in March 2017 with Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s Visualizing Citizenship: Seeking a New Public Imagination. The exhibition highlighted their cross-disciplinary practice, which uses diagrammatic and analytical tools of architecture, urban planning, and political theory to research government and civic structures, and deconstruct and visualize urban and public policy. This was followed in June 2017 with Damon Rich and Jae Shin’s Space Brainz: Yerba Buena 3000, which presented work from their design studio, Hector, and their most recent experiences with contested architecture and planning projects in North American cities. The exhibition resembled a futuristic city made of modular structures where Hector’s projects and proposals, successes and failures, narrated the clashing interests involved in shaping the urban fabric. With The Open Workshop’s New Investigations in Collective Form, we turned our focus to local practitioners. From the gold rush to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge, through the postwar population boom and the rise of Silicon Valley, the kinds of ingenuity fostered in the Bay Area have made it one of the world’s leading economic, academic, recreational, and cultural regions. Through a playful yet rigorous approach, The Open Workshop delves into some of the most urgent issues we face in the Bay Area: climate change, inequity specifically as related to housing, and the need to learn and relearn to live together as society becomes ever more pluralistic. The exhibition makes clever use of models, plants, drawings, and interactive elements to grant the visitor agency in articulating their surroundings. In a time that feels particularly isolating, The Open Workshop creates a space for people to share experiences, touch, learn, and imagine new possibilities for both the built and the natural environment—and, most importantly, for the future. ◘
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In October 2017, YBCA approached The Open Workshop to create an exhibition for our City Initiative program, an ongoing series of case studies by architects, designers, planners, and artists creating provocative works in the urban environment. The exhibitions are meant to expand YBCA’s commitment to model the art institution as a public resource—to pledge the organization to artistic practitioners and constituencies who understand art and culture as forms of knowledge and experience that support civic inquiry and public culture.
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P R OJECT CREDITS The Open Workshop team between 2013 and 2018 included Neeraj Bhatia, Haifa Al-Gwaiz, Rafael Berges, Tracy Bremer, Mary Casper, Jared Clifton, Carly Dean, Zack Glennon, Clare Hacko, Alicia Hergenroeder, Johanna Hoffman, Anesta Iwan, Jeremy Jacinth, Shawn Komlos, Brian Lee, Mikaela Leo, Liz Lessig, Cesar Lopez, Bella Mang, Shirin Monshipouri, Jonathan Negron, David Ornvold, Sonia Ramundi, Blake Stevenson, Kurt Stubbins, Laura Williams, De Peter Yi, and Wei Zhao.
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Projects featured in this volume include collaborations with Blake Stevenson, igg - office for architecture, RICA Studio, Studio VARA, Studio LD, and SurfaceDesign Inc.
A ROOM IN THE CITY
TRIPTYCH TO THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE BUFFER ZONE
NEW YORK, USA, 2016
Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Rafael Berges, Jared Clifton, Cesar Lopez Commissioned by: StoreFront for Art and Architecture
Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Liz Lessig, Cesar Lopez Commissioned by: CCA’s Digital Craft Lab
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 2016-2017
USA, 2018
Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Cesar Lopez Commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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In collaboration with: Blake Stevenson Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Blake Stevenson, Liz Lessig Commissioned by: SPUR/ Piero Patri Fellowship in Urban Design HABITACTORY
HAMBURG, GERMANY, 2017
GARDEN OF DISPLACED ROOTS Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Anesta Iwan, Cesar Lopez
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VARNA PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE
Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Carly Dean, Alicia Hergenroeder, Jonathan Negron, De Peter Yi
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, 2014
Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia,Cesar Lopez, Blake Stevenson GRAND METIS, CANADA, 2013
VARNA, BULGARIA, 2015
Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Cesar Lopez, Johanna Hoffman, Jeremy Jacinth, Shawn Komlos, Haifa Al-Gwaiz GARDEN OF NEW WORLDS GRAND METIS, CANADA, 2016
Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Haifa Al-Gwaiz, Jared Clifton, Shawn Komlos, Cesar Lopez, Shirin Monshipouri
Design Team: Neeraj Bhatia & Cesar Lopez Fabrication Team: Kurt Stubbins & David Ornvold Installation Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Cesar Lopez, Jeremy Jacinth, Kurt Stubbins, David Ornvold, Carlos Antequera Client: Our City Oakland MULTIFOR(U)M
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Project Research and Design Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Tracy Bremer, Mary Casper, Zack Glennon, Alicia Hergenroeder, Brian Lee & Sonia Ramundi
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GARDEN OF FRAMED SCENES VISEU, PORTUGAL, 2018 Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Jared Clifton, Shawn Komlos, Haifa Al-Gwaiz Client: Poldra Project/ City of Viseu
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In collaboration with: Lorena Del Rio (RICA Studio) Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Lorena Del Rio, Carly Dean, Alicia Hergenroeder, Jonathan Negron, De Peter Yi, Wei Zhao Client: City of Porto Brandao
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Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Haifa Al-Gwaiz, Jared Clifton, Jeremy Jacinth, Shawn Komlos, Cesar Lopez, Laura Williams with/ Bella Mang, Shirin Monshipouri, Nicholas Scribner Commissioned by the Architectural League of New York NEW INVESTIGATIONS IN COLLECTIVE FORM
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Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Jared Clifton (Project Manager), Cesar Lopez (Representation); Project Team: Haifa AlGwaiz, Shawn Komlos, Blake Stevenson, Laura Williams Pictured Right (L-R): Haifa Al-Gwaiz, Shirin Monshipouri, Neeraj Bhatia, Laura Williams, Bella Mang, Cesar Lopez, Jared Clifton, Shawn Komlos and Nanuq, Charlotte, Crisco.
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In collaboration with: SurfaceDesign Inc. Project Team: Neeraj Bhatia, Geoff Di Girolamo, Cesar Lopez, Shawn Komlos with/ Blake Stevenson Client: Metrolinx Toronto / IVM
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LIVING ARCHIVE NEW INVESTIGATIONS IN COLLECTIVE FORM Published by Actar Publishers, New York, Barcelona www.actar.com CCA Architecture Books www.cca.edu/architecture/ Author and Editor Neeraj Bhatia Graphic Design The Open Workshop With contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Neeraj Bhatia, Peggy Deamer, Clare Lyster, Keith Krumwiede, Jenny Odell, Albert Pope Rafi Segal, Charles Waldheim
© 2019 All rights reserved. © Edition: Actar Publishers & CCA Architecture Books © Texts: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Neeraj Bhatia, Peggy Deamer, Clare Lyster, Keith Krumwiede, Jenny Odell, Albert Pope Rafi Segal, Charles Waldheim © Content: The Open Workshop / Neeraj Bhatia and collaborators: Blake Stevenson, Ignacio G. Galán / igg - office for architecture, RICA* Studio—Lorena del Rio & Iñaqui Carnicero, Studio VARA, and SurfaceDesign Inc. © Photographs:Neeraj Bhatia and Charlie Villyard (Exhibition Photographs),Luis Belo (Garden of Framed Scenes),All others by Neeraj Bhatia/ The Open Workshop. Cover illustration and frontispiece: The Open Workshop This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, on all or part of the material, specifically translation rights, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or other media, and storage in databases. For use of any kind, permission of the copyright owner must be obtained.
The Open Workshop: New Investigations in Collective Form is part of The City Initiative, a series of case studies by architects, designers, planners, and artists creating provocative work in the urban environment. It is organized by Martin Strickland, exhibitions associate, and Lucía Sanromán, director of visual arts. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is grateful to the City of San Francisco for its ongoing support. YBCA Programs are made possible in part by: The James Irvine Foundation. Additional Funding for YBCA Programs: National Endowment for the Arts, Abundance Foundation, Grosvenor, and Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. YBCA Exhibitions are made possible in part by: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Panta Rhea Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellows Program, and Meridee Moore and Kevin King. New Investigations in Collective Form features collaborations with Christoph Hesse Architects, Ignacio G. Galán / igg - office for architecture, RICA* Studio—Lorena del Rio & Iñaqui Carnicero, Studio VARA, and SurfaceDesign Inc. The Open Workshop would like to thank the following institutions and organizations for their support in the production of this work: California College of the Arts, Cornell University, Rice University, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Architecture League of New York, Lawrence B. Anderson Award/MIT, SPUR, Our City Oakland, StoreFrontLab, and the University of Toronto. In addition we would like to thank the amazing team at YBCA, including Deborah Cullinan, Lucía Sanromán, Martin Strickland, Tesar Freeman, Susie Kantor, John Cartwright, Elena Lyman, and Rebecca Silberman; and the following individuals who have supported this project: Emily Vigor, Juhie Bhatia, Veena & Vinod Bhatia, Clare Hacko, Shirin Monshipouri, Kenneth Hu, Bella Mang, Nicholas Scribner, Laura Hardy, Leeanna Nevarez, Ben Kumata, Graham Johnson, Lamia Algwaiz, Nanuq, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Charles Waldheim, Jenny Odell, Clare Lyster, Rafi Segal, Keith Krumwiede, Albert Pope, Peggy Deamer, Lisa Findley, Jonathan Massey, Dustin Smith, Janette Kim, Antje Steinmuller, Christopher Roach, Brian Price, Florian Idenburg, Dora Epstein Jones, Felipe Correa, Stephen Funk, Mark Baechler, Spike Kahn, Dan Spiegel, and Richard Hindle.
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