Quilted: Connecting Immigrants, Cultures and Public Space in New York City
The cultural diversity of New York City is unparalleled. Virtually every country in the world is represented in its immigrant population, some 176 languages are spoken in its public schools, and in neighborhoods such as Jackson Heights, Queens, the foreign-born population exceeds 60%. Immigrants from disparate cultures live side by side enriching street life with their native cultures, but have little opportunity to engage each other, yet alone shape the public realm, the common ground where they could connect. Using Jackson Heights as a case study, this thesis strives to connect different peoples, their cultures, their homes and public space.
Mike is a designer who is interested in a broad spectrum of scales, from a lighting fixture to a university campus master plan. He was born in Poland, raised in the Piedmont of North Carolina and studied in St. Louis, MO, where he received a BS of Architecture from Washington University. He worked in the fields of residential and sustainable institutional architecture in coastal North Carolina and San Francisco before moving to Brooklyn to pursue a Masters of Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute.
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Advisor: Andrew Schloss
