People and Places Exhibition Friday, May 10 | 4:00 PM The Forum 605 W 129th Street New York, NY 10027 More information & RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/people-and-places-tickets-60874873385 Using videos created by Urban Design students at Columbia GSAPP, award-winning filmmaker Allan Holzman (Survivors of the Holocaust, Old Man River), has crafted a multi-screen montage of a myriad of neighborhoods from across New York City’s five boroughs. The project was guided by GSAPP professors, including Nans Voron, Cassim Shepard, and Kate Orff, the Director of Columbia’s Urban Design Program, MacArthur Foundation Fellow and Principal of SCAPE. The student videos which inspired the project – People and Places – explore the resilience of communities as they navigate the tensions of urban change, and how different proposals for neighborhoods and streets might foster healthy and sustainable living. The videos were created as part of a GSAPP class called “Reading New York Urbanisms,” taught by Shepard and Voron, which introduces Urban Design students to New York City as a laboratory of historical and present-day experiments in shaping the urban environment. By arming students with the observational and representational tools to “read” how the city’s multiple voices and actors influence its physical form and social experience, the class enables students to convey the dynamics of urban life. The installation celebrates the experience of the daily patterns, struggles, and pleasures of New Yorkers across the five boroughs of the City.