CFA Lab: Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces

Center for Architecture Lab is a multi-month, multi-disciplinary residency program that offers new voices in architecture and design full authorship over dedicated areas of the Center for Architecture’s platforms, allowing them to develop and share compelling and provocative content meant to elevate underrepresented perspectives.

The 2026 Lab cohort will respond to the prompt of “Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces.” Residents will address the urgent need to repair not only the physical infrastructure of our environments but also the political and social inequities embedded within them. The open call invited architects, urban planners, designers, artists, cultural conservationists, and community activists to examine how the concept of repair can serve as a lens to reimagine democratic, equitable spaces.

Selected residents:

Energies of Repair: Visualizing Community Power in NYC by Andrea Johnson and Ashley Dawson

DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground by Friends Making Work (Christine Giorgio, Amelyn Ng, and Gabriel Vergara)

Graphic Design: WSDIA

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