Our current Fellows are participating in cross-disciplinary cohorts, confronting the defining issues facing our city and investigating how design can address a social or political urban challenge.
2025 Big Swings
Meet the 2025 cohort of urban leaders who will survey the world for courageous leadership on the housing crisis.
2025-26 New City Critics
Meet the writers training a critical gaze on New York City.
Living Routes
Meet the 2026 Forefront Fellows how transforming public spaces into living, adaptive, and sustaining landscapes of care.
Local Center
Meet the three community partners and their design teams transforming their neighborhood streets, parks, and plazas with creative lighting installations.