The project examines migration in USA and how it affects and influence the New York City.

Country X examines Indigenous space as a living system shaped by memory, ecology, and forced migration—an investigation of how mapping becomes a means of both dispossession and recovery.

The project examines migration along Mexico’s southern border, showing how territorial typologies arise from flows of movement, administration, and care.

Insertions brings together visionary artists and designers Mel Chin and Ronald Rael for a dialogue on art as intervention—how creative practice can insert new meaning, ethics, and urgency into the built and social environment. Through their work spanning sculpture, architecture, and activism, Chin and Rael explore how art can reshape systems, provoke change, and redefine the boundaries between culture, politics, and place. The discussion is introduced and moderated by Max Wolf (New Canons).

Body and Ground brings together artists Jeneen Frei Njootli and Manual Axel Strain in a conversation on the interconnections between land, identity, and embodiment in contemporary Indigenous art. Through performance, sound, and material practice, both artists explore how the body becomes a site of resistance and renewal in dialogue with place and memory. The discussion is introduced and moderated by Patricia Marroquin Norby (The Met).

The Prison Industrial Complex and Beyond brings together writer and performer Liza Jessie Peterson, architect and activist Raphael Sperry, and moderator Elias Beltran for a critical dialogue on incarceration, justice, and the built environment. The conversation explores how architecture, performance, and advocacy intersect within systems of control—and how creative and civic action can envision alternatives to mass incarceration. Through their combined perspectives, the speakers challenge audiences to consider how space, policy, and imagination might be mobilized toward repair, dignity, and social transformation.

EHKOOO brings together artist Kayode Ojo and playwright Olu Obafemi in a cross-disciplinary conversation about beauty, performance, and cultural inheritance. Bridging sculpture, language, and theater, the dialogue examines how form and narrative intersect—how objects and words alike can reflect identity, desire, and power. Moderated by Ebony L. Haynes, the discussion explores the tension between visibility and myth, intimacy and spectacle, within contemporary art and thought.

This project investigates coastal resiliency as an infrastructural and governance problem, examining Lower Manhattan’s East River Waterfront and Nassau County’s South Shore to articulate edge typologies, ecological repair, and policy mechanisms that can adapt over time.

Cleveland Sun is a citywide light installation that channels the collective energy of Cleveland into a single luminous event. Using light as its medium, 1,001 mirrors were installed across the city, reflecting sunlight toward one central point—the Sculpture Center. There, through the skylight, the gathered light flooded the gallery, transforming it into a vast, living collector of urban illumination. Acting as both instrument and metaphor, Cleveland Sun turned the city into a unified organism of reflection and radiance.