The Rockaway Archipelago

In collaboration with RISE (a local NGO), our class visited the Rockaway Peninsula in New York City to engage local residents in developing short-term public space plans for the waterfront along Jamaica Bay. Subsequently, our class developed future-looking spatial strategies for the Peninsula as a whole. My project explored the Peninsula as a "climate change museum" where people can witness firsthand the effects of sea level rise as the land sinks below the waves. “Rockaway's Housing Superstorm," Harvard GSD, Fall 2024. Instructor: Ed Wall.

Community workshop

Credits: Thanks to Benedetta Zuccarelli and Piper Claudia Williams for facilitating the workshop with me; Jeanne DuPont and the RISE staff for their help organizing the workshop, connecting us with residents, and letting us use the space; and Giles Ashford for the during-workshop photo.

Fieldwork in the Rockaways

Process work: mapping the site

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
—from “Meditation XVII,” John Donne

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