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Purpose |
The New York Prize Fellowship advances the Institute's public educational mission by promoting critical inquiry and practice that actively engage the public realm. The fellowship program provides a much-needed space for exploring the boundaries of public architecture in the context of contemporary social, political, economic, and cultural processes that are challenging and expanding the very meanings of ‘public’ and of ‘architecture’. Both think tank and workshop, the program operates as a testing ground for innovative work unhindered by the daily demands of professional practice, and it provides a public platform for sharing this work with diverse communities. Fellows' projects promote awareness of the critical importance of architecture and design to civic life, and they inform public debate about matters of local and global concern for the built environment today, such as sustainable design and development, urban culture in the age of homeland security, public art and collective memory, and patterns and effects of privatization. |
