Overview

The New York Prize Fellowship provides emerging practitioners and scholars the opportunity to pursue advanced research and experimental practice in public architecture. Fellows are based at the Institute, where they generate publicly-accessible projects on the most significant issues shaping public life and the built environment today.

Fellows expand their own professional, artistic and intellectual practice through study and dialogue with their colleagues in an international and multidisciplinary workshop environment. Their projects benefit from the extraordinarily rich context of New York's public spaces, attendant spheres of production and activity, and the resources available through Van Alen Institute's partnerships with academic, professional and civic organizations in the region.

The Institute’s fellowships provide not a retreat, but a platform for public engagement. Fellows’ projects range across media, temporalities, dimensions, geographies and scales in the form of public exhibitions, installations, performances, symposia, workshops or other program formats. Their work – as it intersects public space and spatial practice – is also presented in a new Van Alen Institute publication, Public Practice.