Invited by Mary Miss / City as Living Laboratory, S. Fan collaborated with Myles Zhang to map the complex and fluid relationships between public and private spaces, overlaid with public and private uses of Manhattan's Chinatown. By highlighting these relationships, the project aspires to stimulate conversations about how to foster a healthy symbiosis between these spaces and uses: how the public realm can be better used, designed, managed, and reimagined to shape a more resilient and inclusive public realm.

The product of multiple conversations with Chinatown residents based on walking tours, sidewalk outreach events, and community forums, Pedestrian Observations will be a classroom and community resource to equip people with questions to examine their own built environments, as well as a directory of community organizations that engage with these issues.

Funding provided by CALL, the National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the University of Michigan's Rackham Program in Public Scholarship.

For more info, and to order a free copy of the map, visit www.cityaslivinglab.org

 

Exhibited in Chinatown's Columbus Park, where handcopies were also distributed for free.  

Introduced by Mary Miss, Myles and Stephen led a Walk highlighting the themes of the map.  

The Walk was followed by a conversation at Yu and Me Books.