Deconstructing DesignReckoning in Pixels™

Program 01

Public Art & Urban Activation

Site-specific art installations and exhibitions in public space that surface community narratives, environmental justice, and the histories of displacement written into the ground beneath us.

Collage: a mural of a woman’s face and a marching crowd spans a building above a plaza where neighbors gather, with a street map, leaves, and a raised fist layered over the city.

Art as evidence

We treat public space as a page.

Installations name what displacement erased and imagine what restoration could look like — developed with community consent, never imposed.

Sited with care

Every work follows our Public Art & Exhibitions policy.

Clear siting, maintenance, and de-installation guidelines, and community authorship at the center — a work is never imposed on the block that has to live with it.

How the program runs

Three installation series

  1. Projection Mapping: Sound as Space, Space as Resistance

    Projection · Archival sound · Site-specific

    Sound is infrastructure without walls. Zoning and redlining drew lines that music never observed — the blues, jazz, hip-hop, and the protest chant crossed them nightly. Projection mapping puts that argument on the buildings that enforced the lines: archival footage and recorded sound layered onto the façades of a block, so a neighborhood hears its own history in the register it was made in. It grows from Amplified Extraction and the methodology's sixth pillar.

  2. Archival Overlays: The Document on the Site

    Installation · Primary documents · At scale

    Every installation carries the paper that made the place. A zoning diagram, a lending map, a lien-sale notice — set onto the building, the lot, or the block it once decided, at the scale it was drawn. The methodology forbids symbolism without documentation; here the document is the symbol, and the site is its footnote. What a bureaucratic word like “blight” did to a street becomes legible from the sidewalk.

  3. Cut Sections: Strata in the Street

    Installation · Dual narrative · Street scale

    A section drawn at street scale: the layers of decision beneath one lot, from the first plat line to the latest rezoning, marked in the pavement and read from the curb. Each layer names the structural force and the consequence that followed — never one without the other. What is on the surface was put there by something underneath. The installation lets a block see how far down.

Source Amplified Extraction; Urban Dispossession: Why Brooklyn?; RIP methodology, pillars 1–3 and 6 The formats above are drawn from these works

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