Join Buscada on January 31st for the opening events of Layered SPURA : Spurring conversations through visual urbanism at the Aronson Gallery, The New School – a new exhibition curated and designed by Buscada, and celebrating four years of Buscada’s collaborations on the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area – and spurring conversation about what’s next for SPURA!

Check out Buscada’s blog, which has a preview video of the exhibition.

Opening events on January 31:
Curator’s gallery talk w/ Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, 6:30pm
Opening reception to follow, 7-9pm

Where: Aronson Galleries : 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York City

More than forty years ago, New York City took ownership of 14 square blocks on the Lower East Side for urban renewal and “slum clearance.” Its legacy is a row of parking lots on the south side of Delancey Street. Few renewal projects have been so contested, and very few of the originally-planned buildings were built. This is SPURA, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, one of the largest underdeveloped city-owned parcels of land.

The Layered SPURA / City Studio project, headed by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, explores this complex site using a hybrid approach of pedagogy, art and research, and involves long-term collaborations between Lower East Side community organizations and students in Bendiner-Viani’s City Studio, a part of the New School’s Urban Programs. This exhibition, a culmination of four years of student, faculty, and community collaboration, does not suggest solutions for a place beleaguered by top-down planning, but rather hopes to spur new conversations amongst people with different points of view about SPURA’s past, present and future.

The project has collaborated with many local community and art organizations including Good Old Lower East Side, Pratt Center for Community Development, Place Matters, common room, Buscada, Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Art Center and Creative Time.

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