“In Land We Trust” – Lecture at Bard Architecture
Building Huespaces
Building HueSpaces is a series that centers the creation of museums and other arts enclaves founded and led by BIPOC organizers. The fist session explored how to start a capital project and determining what is needed in terms of building a new structure, renting and renovating an existing building, or considering other alternatives for an organization’s needs.
Attendees heard from architects, Latoya Nelson Kamdang and Nandini Bagchee, as well as David Dean, arts administrator, and Pres Adams, Senior Community Investment Officer for LISC NY.
The Art Of Land – co-organized by the clement and MOMA PS1
MoMA PS1 and The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center present two panel discussions exploring how cultural workers have been involved in re-envisioning the use and stewardship of land in New York City. The Art of Land marks the closing of Life Between Buildings at MoMA PS1 and the launch of Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida, a digital exhibition organized by Nandini Bagchee and The Clemente.
Current Works – NYC: Building Community at the Architectural League NY
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. Presenters include, Andrea Steele Architecture, Bagchee Architects, di Domenico +Partners, Rogers Partners Architects and Sage and Coombe Architects.
The Free Black Women’s Library
The Free Black Women’s Library Brooklyn, New York 2022 The Free Black Women’s Library’s first permanent home, The Reading Room in Bed-Stuy seeks to provide a space for community, the sharing of knowledge, and initiate radical con-versations all centered around Black women authors, artists, and community members. The library was started by artist and organizer […]
“At the Laundromat Project, Artists are Ambassadors of Joy and Activism”- New York Times
“After working from temporary offices on the Lower East Side and then Harlem and the South Bronx, the organization (Laundromat Project) has returned to its roots in Bedford-Stuyvesant, opening its first public space, a storefront, with a 10-year lease, on the busy central corridor of Fulton Street. An open house planned for Aug. 6 will officially inaugurate that community hub.”
Article by Hilarie M. Sheets for the New York Times.
“Trust Exercise”- Urban Omnibus
A conversation with Architect Nandini Bagchee and Memo Salazar, Board Co-chair of the Western Queens Community Land Trust about how local activists came together against Amazons HQ2 to replace a massive public owned building in western queens and the collective community visioning that formed into the city’s first non-residential CLT — and the manifold challenges and negotiations that are shaping ambitions beyond just one building.
Freedom Farm Mobile Stall
Freedom Farm Mobile Stall Jackson, Mississippi 2021 Freedom Farms is the agricultural/ food cooperative branch of Cooperation Jackson, a community lead cooperative initiative in Jackson, Mississippi. Bagchee Architects designed a Mobile food stall that would aid Freedom farms in delivering fresh produce to local residents in west Jackson. Project team: Nandini Bagchee, Ngawang Tenzin
“Weigh in on the Future of Two Publicly Owned Buildings in Western Queens Saturday”- LIC Post
“An outdoor event that seeks to provide residents with an opportunity to weigh in on the future of two publicly-owned properties in Long Island City will take place Saturday. ”
Article by Michael Dorgan for The LIC Post
“From Spaces of Resistance to the Architecture of Repair” a conversation by George Sholette at the Bard graduate center.
A conversation with cultural activists, artists, and scholars Nandini Bagchee, Libertad O.Guerra, and Todd Ayoung. Led by Gregory Sholette, and focusing on past, present, and future forms of collective self-organizing in the face of ongoing economic, political, environmental, and aesthetic crises, the group will discuss the construction of urban counter-institutions in the defunded ruins of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1970s, as well as Community Land Trusts at the Bard graduate center.