Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is a photographer, urbanist and curator. She is co-founder of Buscada, an interdisciplinary practice on place and dialogue, and is Associate Director of Civic Engagement Initiatives at the New School. From 2009-2012 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the New School and a fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, London. She holds a doctorate in Environmental Psychology from the Graduate Center, CUNY and her visual urbanist research and practice address the experience and politics of everyday place. Her scholarship has appeared in journals including Society & Space, Space & Culture, Radical History Review and Places; her work has been exhibited with institutions including MIT, Creative Time, the Center for Architecture, and the Tenement Museum.
How can a hybrid approach of using archives, exhibitions, art and an active engagement with communities help us to better…
