The winners for Fast Company’s prestigious Innovation by Design Awards were recently announced, live on FastCoDesign.com.  SITU Studio is pleased to share that our design research and proposal Invisible New York was named a Finalist in the City Solutions category.  The project along with the work of all the winners and finalists, is highlighted in the October issue of the print magazine. 

Invisible New York focuses on the informal component of New York City’s housing market and seeks to place it squarely within conversations about affordability.  SITU’s design strategy addresses the hidden density of New York’s informal housing not by trying to shift residents elsewhere, but rather, by proposing a way for communities to thrive within the neighborhoods they already inhabit.  This work was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art for the recent exhibition Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities and is currently on view at the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in conjunction with the inaugural Vienna Biennale. More information about Invisible New York can be found here. 

Source: NYC Department of Buildings, “311 Service Complaints from 2010 to present: Illegal Conversion of Residential Building/Space.” Image © SITU Studio

The Innovation by Design Awards program, now in its fourth year, honors the most innovative and disruptive design solutions to today’s business problems.  This year’s judging panel, which was once again comprised of the world’s best design minds, selected the finalists from among 1,500 international submissions across 14 categories — the most ever. Panelists in the City Solutions category included Denise Cherry, Founder and Principal, Studio O+A; Nicole Dosso, Director, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Richard Florida, Author, Rise of the Creative Class; and Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, Bloomberg Associates.  Honorees include big-name brands like Nike and JetBlue, and design firms like Pentagram and Frog, as well as emerging companies like True&Co. and Emotient.  

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