Winners of the WorldWide Storefront initiative highlight facets of urbanism

New York City's Storefront for Art and Architecture recently revealed the winning entries of WorldWide Storefront (WWSF). The initiative aims to engage worldwide discussion on various topics that intertwine urbanism, contemporary art, and architectural practices.

Winning entries will begin at the same time starting Sept. 19 until Nov. 21, 2014. Each two-month program will host public exhibitions, talks, workshops, screenings, and other events.

Check out the winning entries below.

Container Art Residency / itinerant
Maayan Strauss
An artist residency that will invite artists to travel on board commercial freight ships to worldwide destinations along various shipping routes, addressing questions of isolation and transportation as a way of redefining the contemporary artist studio.

Gallery Attachment / Los Angeles, USA
Andrew Kovacs, Laurel Consuelo Broughton
A space designed and constructed by the authors under a bridge in Los Angeles will serve simultaneously as an architectural object and as a container for a series of events, exhibitions and performances.

Host: Natural Histories / Los Angeles, USA
Mimi Zeiger
Located at The Neutra VDL Research Site in the Silverlake district of Los Angeles, the project explores the multivalent meaning of the word “host”: a talk-show host, a parasitic host body, and host house or city, via an exhibition and series of events.

Microgeographies / Athens, Greece
Hariklia Hari
Reacting to the states of abandonment of cities in Greece as a result of personal and social crisis, and reflecting on the gradual reconstruction processes occurring in southern Europe, Microgeographies will present a series micro-exhibitions, actions, installations and performances in public and domestic spaces.

Next Station / Tel Aviv, Israel
Onya Collective [Avigail Roubini, Gil Cohen, Robert Ungar, Neta Steingart, Adam Kalderon]
A series of small interventions in and around the Tel-Aviv Central Bus Station in Neve Shaanan exploring different ways of embedding agriculture and natural ecologies in urban environments.

The Portal / Toronto, Canada
Megan Torza
The Portal will activate Toronto’s under recognized ravine landscape through a series of interventions and discussions occupying the entrance of an architecture studio.

Hmong Town Marketplace / St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Sandra Teitge
Renting a stall in the Hmong Town Marketplace in St. Paul, Minneapolis—used by a minority community predominantly from Laos—the project opens up this almost hermetic cosmos via a series of films and TV screenings, a local radio, a public library, and a lunch series led by a group of artists in collaboration with the Hmong community.

The Spectacle Syndicate / itinerant
Circus for Construction [Ann Lui, Ashley Mendelsohn, Larisa Ovalles, Craig Reschke, Benjamin Widger]
Located on the back of a custom-built truck trailer, the Spectacle Syndicate will stop in five cities over the course of two months (Ithaca, Providence, Provincetown, Portland, Buffalo, and Boston) hosting forums, exhibitions and workshops coordinated with local experts.

A to B - Crossing the railway / Montreal, Canada
Vincent Lalonde-Dupuy, Pierre Horo-Lin, Xavier Coulombe-Hurray, Camille Angibaud
A cartographic urban project along the Canadian Pacific’s Railway, made by citizens and users crossing legally and illegally the railway, will map and discuss the urban landscape and biodiversity of the site.

Tropical Ghosts / Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo
Monica de Moya, Engel Leonardo
A series of site-specific urban interventions and meetings in Polígono Central, Santo Domingo will explore issues of growth, identity and systems of sharing in the tropical communities.

All events will be recorded and broadcast through the WorldWide Storefront online platform and presented at the Storefront for Art and Architecture Gallery embedded in the installation WWSf Portal, a collaborative design by Marc Fornes and Jana Winderen.