Student collage by Valeska Abarca, Nathaly Castillo, Mauricio Guidos, CCNY
Map by Sadie Imae and Lindsay Harkema, based on original work created by students of the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York. Drawing has been updated by the curatorial team.
SPATIALIZING REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
2024–
with Lori A. Brown, Bryony Roberts, FLUFFFF Studio (Natalya Dikhanov and Sadie Imae)
Spatializing Reproductive Justice is a traveling exhibition that raises awareness of the inequities of reproductive healthcare access in the United States and the agency of design fields to respond. Learning from the robust history of the reproductive justice movement’s past and present, the exhibition addresses the spatial, legal, and social barriers to care access in the United States following the repeal of Roe v. Wade through the lens of architectural inquiry.
Research and design work by students and design professionals investigate how the intersecting and compounding factors of race, class, and gender impact an individual’s access to care, offering speculative design proposals for facilities, systems, and networks enabling expansive ideas for greater access. The exhibition emerged from academic design studios taught at three New York institutions in Fall 2022, in the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Supreme Court decision. Expanding beyond the studios’ work, the exhibition fosters dialogue among designers, healthcare providers, advocates, and students to explore how practitioners of the built environment can respond to and support reproductive justice in the US amid an increasingly volatile and evolving political landscape.
Spatializing Reproductive Justice is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Exhibition Locations:
Avery Hall, Columbia University, Mar 26-Apr 17, 2024
Center for Architecture, May 2, 2024-Sep 4, 2024
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Oct 31, 2024-Feb 14, 2025
Recent Press for Spatializing Reproductive Justice:
New York Review of Architecture
Photos by Asya Gorovits
More info on the Center for Architecture website.