Domus: Contested Mobility, Future Cities, and Public Light

During New York’s Festival of Ideas for the New City, a symposium organized by Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Audi Urban Future Initiative brought together designers and thinkers to consider how mobility, light, and new technologies might reshape urban life. As part of the exhibition, we were invited—along with four other emerging New York practices—to speculate on Manhattan’s future. Our contribution focused on the overlooked rooftop and interstitial airspace created by zoning. Rather than treating these gaps as residual, we proposed turning them into sites for photovoltaic fields, greenhouses, and water-collection systems. The work reflects our interest in uncovering latent spatial potential and reimagining the city through more sustainable, productive frameworks. Read more in Domus: Contested Mobility, Future Cities, and Public Light, and see this video produced by Architizer about the project.