Projects

Long-term, community-led pandemic recovery across four boroughs in NYC.

Launched in 2014, the Flatiron Public Plaza Holiday Installation was a platform for the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership and Van Alen Institute (VAI) to bring people together and support inventive visions for an iconic urban plaza.

The Van Alen Council is a invitation-only community of leading systems-thinkers spanning the design professions.

An international design competition that sparked a new public conversation about New York City’s infrastructure.

Together with the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY), the Industrial Designers Society of America (ISDA), and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY), we invited interdisciplinary industrial design teams to reimagine the iconic New York City litter basket.

Designing ways to adapt to sea level rise in Greater Miami.

A documentary series highlighting current debates about infrastructure.

Van Alen Report gathers expert perspectives on subjects that are redefining society’s relationship to cities.

Emergency Contact was a one-day flash competition that challenges interdisciplinary teams to design practical solutions for affordable, replicable neighborhood mental health treatment centers to efficiently put patients in contact with treatment.