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  3. Unveiling: Interwoven by Atelier Cho Thompson

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    Interwoven. Image: Atelier Cho Thompson
    Interwoven. Image: Atelier Cho Thompson
    Interwoven. Image: Atelier Cho Thompson
    Interwoven. Image: Atelier Cho Thompson
    Interwoven. Image: Atelier Cho Thompson

    Unveiling: Interwoven by Atelier Cho Thompson

    Monday, November 22, 5:30 pm

    Flatiron North Public Plaza on Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street

    Presented in collaboration with the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership, Interwoven by Atelier Cho Thompson celebrates the joys of reconnecting in public space. Its interactive archways are activated by color-coded sensors; when two or more people pass through sensors of the same color, Interwoven responds with corresponding lights and musical compositions by local artists inspired by the installation’s themes.

    As part of the installation, the story wall weaves together responses to the prompt: “I dream of a world where together we can…” During the kickoff event, share your responses and the resulting narratives will become a tapestry of voices documenting this challenging, yet hopeful moment in time. The prompt was selected by Youth Fellows from the People’s Bus NYC, a community-led, intergenerational initiative focused on engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.

    After you share your response, stick around for light bites by Eataly, frozen hot-chocolate-flavored custard from Shake Shack, hot chocolate from Flatiron Plate, and music by The Jazz Gallery!

  6. Atelier Cho Thompson

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    Atelier Cho Thompson is a bi-coastal design and concept firm, working between the disciplines of architecture, interiors, graphics and design strategy. Founded by two Asian-American women, ACT has embarked on a number of ambitious goals: to design beautiful and functional projects around the globe, to deeply engage our communities around design, to promote equity within our profession, and to build a sustainable and unique business model. ACT has been honored with numerous national design awards, including the IIDA Foundation Visionary Award and the Architect Newspaper Young Architects Award.

  7. AD—WO

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    AD—WO is an art and architecture practice based in New York City, and by extension, between Melbourne and Addis Ababa. The practice aims to establish an operational terrain between architectures content and container: equally committed to designing buildings and reimagining their dynamic sociopolitical contexts.

    Founded in 2015, AD—WO has undertaken projects in Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Korea, Germany, and the United States. Their work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Architekturmueum der TU Munchen, and Art Omi. They are currently developing an apartment building in Addis Ababa.

  8. Isometric

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    Based in New York City, we collaborate with leading cultural institutions, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits to reinvent the way they present themselves visually and strategically. We express the missions of these organizations through visual identities, exhibitions, websites, and signage programs that convey intellectual rigor, aesthetic sophistication, and memorable storytelling. We believe in design that transcends existing expectations by challenging cliches and stereotypes in visual culture.

    In collaboration with our clients, we shape narratives and spaces of belonging. Through design, we advance an ethos of inclusion, equity, and justice, centering the lived experiences of marginalized people. Our projects often address complex social issues, amplifying activism on gender equity, climate change, racial justice, LGBT identity, and immigrant rights. Our more well-known clients include the USAID, Google, Museum of the City of New York, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and the Center for Reproductive Rights. We have also collaborated with 15+ departments and offices at Princeton University.

  9. Studio Cooke John

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    Studio Cooke John, founded by Nina Cooke John, is a multidisciplinary design studio that values placemaking as a way to transform relationships between people and the built environment. Working at the scale of the human body; individually or collectively, in the home or on the street, we respond to how we use space in our everyday lives, whether in the family unit or as a community.

    We play out intimate relationships in the privacy of our homes, but in public, in the streets, we play out important relationships with our neighbors.  It is where we strengthen the bonds with those whose backgrounds might be different to ours as we build community.  It is in public space that we provide a place for and acknowledge the presence of those who have been systematically silenced.

    Throughout the design process, our collaborations with clients and community members, yield insights that inform how we, alongside our network of craftsmen, fabricators and consultants, transform spaces within the home and in the public sphere. What emerge are spaces tailored to each client’s needs, revealing elements of serendipity and surprise.

    – cookejohn.com

  10. Justin Garrett Moore

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    Justin Garrett Moore is the inaugural program officer for the Humanities in Place program at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His work focuses on advancing equity, inclusion, and social justice through place-based initiatives and programs, built environments, cultural heritage projects, and commemorative spaces and landscapes. He has extensive experience in architecture, planning, and design—from urban systems, policies, and building projects to grassroots and community-focused planning, design, preservation, public realm, and arts initiatives.

    With over fifteen years of public service with the City of New York, Mr. Moore has led several urban design and planning projects, including the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Waterfront, Hunter’s Point South, and the Brooklyn Cultural District. From 2016 to 2020, he was the executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission, where he spearheaded initiatives to address social equity and sustainability through improved built environment design and public processes. His work spanned housing and community development, place and open space design, historic preservation, public art and monuments, and civic engagement.

    Mr. Moore holds a bachelor of design from the University of Florida and master of architecture and master of science in urban design degrees from Columbia University, where he now serves as an adjunct associate professor of architecture. He has also taught at Morgan State University, Tuskegee University, and the Yale School of Architecture. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of Certified Planners, the National Organization of Minority Architects, the Urban Design Forum, and BlackSpace. In 2021, Moore received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture and was named to the United States Commission of Fine Arts by President Joseph Biden.