FELLOWS
Resident Fellows

Van Alen Institute New York Prize resident fellows are based at the Institute for periods of three months in the fall, spring and summer during which time they pursue research and present public projects on critical issues concerning the design and use of public space today. Each year, the Institute selects resident fellows through a competitive open application process, and invites a distinguished practitioner or scholar to join the fellowship as a Senior Fellow. Fellowships are awarded in any of five broad project areas – Land Use and Development, Forms and Materials, Information and Communication, Systems and Ecology, and Culture and Politics.

The 2007-2008 resident fellows will generate exhibitions and installations, produce live web broadcasts, launch media campaigns, and organize forums and symposia on a range of topics – from air quality in New York City to informal settlements in Nairobi to the global digital divide. For more information about the fellows and their work, please click on the links below.

Fellows 2007-08
David Benjamin
& Soo-in Yang

Living City: A Public Interface to Air Quality in New York
Chelina Odbert
& Jennifer Toy

Productive Public Space: Exploring Hybridities in Informal Settlements
Dirk Hebel
& Jörg Stollmann

United Bottle
Ellen Grimes
Public Ecologies:
An Experimental Infrastructure at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
John Stuart
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