Bard Architecture Students Meet with Celebrated Community Organizers in East Village
L-R: Caleb Wagner ’24, Odetta Hartman ’11, Joseph “Slima” Williams, Professor Michael Robinson Cohen, Amadou Gadio ’24, Waleska Brito ’24, Sage Arnold ’24, Sam McVicker ’23, Carlos “Chino” Garcia, Marcus Pirozzi ’24, Jack Loud ’23, Dot Ayala Valdez ’24. Photo by Phil Hartman ’79
Between 1978 to 2001, CHARAS organized educational, arts, and social programming that primarily served the growing Puerto Rican community, operating mainly out of the vacated Public School 64 building which they renamed “El Bohio,” or the hut. Today, PS 64 sits vacant and is directly adjacent to “Anarchy Row,” an encampment of unhoused people that has resisted multiple efforts to clear the settlement. In support of this unhoused population and the broader community of the East Village, students in Designing Potential Histories are imagining the adaptive reuse of the vacant school building and the appropriation of other sites on the block.
Post Date: 02-28-2023