Special Projects
In addition to our annual programming, our special projects promote the role of urban design to the greater public.
Urban Design Forum and The Architectural League announce a new fellowship program for emerging critics.
In partnership with Hudson Square Properties, and the Hudson Square BID, the Forum led a competition for an installation in Hudson Square.
We joined forces with Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD) to discuss a just city recovery from COVID-19.
The Forum was the proud curatorial partner for 2017’s Times Square Valentine Heart Design competition, led by Times Square Arts.
Urban Design Week was a pioneering public festival created to engage New Yorkers in the fascinating and complex issues of the public realm.
Join Urban Design Forum, The Architectural League of New York, and the League’s digital publication, Urban Omnibus, for a discussion on the role of public knowledge in citymaking with Shannon Mattern, Karen Fairbanks, Farzana Gandhi, Shawn Rickenbacker, and Dan Taeyoung.
Join us for the Neighborhoods Now Summer Summit to celebrate the work of this year long initiative and discuss how collaborative design can improve New York City's public realm post-pandemic.
In partnership with Hudson Square Properties and Hudson Square Business Improvement District, we invite you to celebrate the launch of Restorative Ground.
Join us for a conversation on MoMA’s recent exhibition, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, with curators Sean Anderson and Mabel Wilson.
Join us in conversation with community leaders, designers, advocates, and policymakers to discuss the future of Open Streets in New York City. The past year has transformed New York City’s streetscape. Through the Open Streets program, communities across all five boroughs animated streets for joyful gathering, play, education, health, and resiliency. As we emerge from […]
Join us in conversation with Louis Bailey, Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes, Fernando Ortiz Baez, and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin as they discuss the future of community organizing. This past year highlighted the value of on-the-ground community organizing work, and generated a myriad of new possibilities for it. We have seen the rise of mutual aid networks, online organizing tactics that […]
Urban Design Forum is pleased to announce that WIP Collaborative is the winner of Care for Hudson Square, a recovery initiative in partnership with Hudson Square Properties and Hudson Square Business Improvement District.
Posted — September 15, 2020
Restorative Ground by WIP Collaborative proposes an installation that will act as a new destination in Hudson Square, a place for a range of experiences, activities and interactions to occur between residents, community members, and the broader public.
Posted — September 15, 2020
This strategy of placemaking at Little 6th Avenue reflects the wealth of cultural and educational institutions in the area and proposes to support the outdoor movement and activities of pedestrians and residents, facilitating responsible social interactions, planned and spontaneous, and help to build engagement for other sites in Hudson Square both in person and virtually.
Posted — September 14, 2020
Against the rush of the 24 hour news cycle and whiplash politics of the day, Dash Marshall proposes a slow space for Hudson Square. Viewsstand brings Hudson Square’s history into dialogue with the present by creating a newsstand on Little 6th Avenue and converting the street to a plaza of reflection and conversation.
Posted — September 14, 2020
