Buscada | 
Imagined Geographies
An atlas from the minds of New Yorkers. If you could, where would you take me on a guided tour?
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#ImaginedGeographies #Buscada #UrbanStorytelling #NYCVoices #ParticipatoryMapping #ArtAndCities #AtlasOfMeaning #JustCities #PlaceMatters

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Intersection | Prospect Heights

“ The Intersection guidebooks are “little jewels that meld map and memoir.”
Brooklyn Magazine

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#IntersectionGuidebooks #ProspectHeights #BrooklynCulture #MapAndMemoir #BrooklynMagazine #UrbanExploration #NeighborhoodStories

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AAWW STRATEGIC PLAN
Buscada facilitated a participatory and values-driven strategic planning process for the Asian American Writers Workshop AAWW, an organization that amplifies Asian American literary culture to mobilize for a more just future.
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VALUES-BASED STRATEGIC PLANNING
Co-designed tools for values-based decision-making that every member of the organization has contributed to, and feels invested in.
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#StrategicPlanning #ValuesDriven #OrganizationalDevelopment #InclusiveLeadership #HumanCenteredDesign

Buscada 
Imagined Geographies
An atlas from the minds of New Yorkers. If you could, where would you take me on a guided tour?
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#ImaginedGeographies #Buscada #UrbanStorytelling #NYCVoices #ParticipatoryMapping #ArtAndCities #JustCities #PlaceMatters #NewYorkNarratives

Practice Creativity Practice Creativity Think about your life and education. Were you ever taught how to be creative? The simple act of making each day was a reminder that creativity is a practice and a focus on moving your awareness to a different place for a period of time, a place you want to be. Read the full article at: https://t.ly/3VB3o https://www.designandculture.net

The Power of Shifting Focus
When you take time to create, you’re not just making art or ideas—
you’re shifting your mental state.

Even 15 minutes of focused creative time
can reset your entire perspective.

📺 Watch the video and explore how creativity becomes clarity.
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#Pra

Creativity Is a Place You Choose to Go
Creativity isn’t magic.
It’s a decision to move your awareness to a new place.
A place that feels more you.

It’s not about escaping reality—it’s about shaping it.

✨ Watch the video and choose that place today.
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#PracticeCreativity #Cr

The Hidden Cost of Going It Alone
Anxiety.
Loneliness.
Disconnection.

These aren’t personal failures.
They’re symptoms of a culture that forgot we need each other.

🧭 Watch the video and ask: what if the solution isn't inside, but around us?
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#LookOutward #ReclaimConnection

Embedding Histories in a Changing Prospect Heights - Urban Omnibus Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani shares stories of significant personal places from six Prospect Heights residents in the early 2000s and introduces a project to make visible those stories in the very different landscape of the contemporary neighborhood.

Urban Omnibus
Embedding Histories in a Changing Prospect Heights
Intersection | Prospect Heights serves to lift the veil of anonymity surrounding conversations on gentrification by grounding them in individual articulations of the value of places that have been or could be lost.

The America Project – Buscada Our publication, “The America Project: A Teaching Method for Collaboration, Creativity, and Citizenship” was created in collaboration with MAPP International Productions to carry on poet Sekou Sundiata’s work to combine teaching, making art, and the development of work in the public realm. 

The America Project
Civic engagement, pedagogy, critical thinking, and art practice
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#CivicEngagement #Pedagogy #CriticalThinking #ArtPractice #EducationForChange

In the Same Room Without Screaming - Urban Omnibus Can public art, oral history, and open dialogue help rebuild burned bridges between estranged community groups? Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani recounts her experience in the Lower East Side's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA).

Urban Omnibus
In the Same Room Without Screaming
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Community engagement matters. #SPURA #UrbanRenewal #AffordableHousing #CommunityEngagement #NYCDevelopment #art #spaces #voices

"We are proud to honor Contested City with special designation for its use of the historic record to inform our lives in the present.”
Brendan Gill Prize Jury
Municipal Art Society

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#LES #winner #culture #city #NYC #contest #LES

Contested City
Art & Public History as Mediation at New York’s Seward Park Urban Renewal Area

#culture #les #books #art #practice #methods #NYC

A person holding a book open to a two page image spread of a Met Foods location.

Everyday spaces—often overlooked—play a critical role in shaping our personal identities and fostering meaningful connections. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani illuminates what makes urban life special and the importance of preserving these spaces in her book, "The Cities We Need." https://buff.ly/3ZrKYqs

“Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood?” asks @gabriellebv.bsky.social in Cities We Need @mitpress.bsky.social

Thank you for inviting @liberalstudiesgc.bsky.social students to share spaces in the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social building that hold meaning for them 🏢

A Light Without Shadow, No. 19_Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani – Artists Alliance Inc. “I’ve asked people for guided tours for twenty years. Most often, they’ve walked or driven me around their neighborhoods, and I’ve photographed their places. But this time of social distancing and constrained mobility has got me returning to a different part of that practice, a project in which I’ve asked people to imagine where in the world they would take me on a guided tour, if they could. This body of work, from my sidewalk photo studios set up in Jamaica, Queens and Harlem, Manhattan—invited by @nolongerempty and De La Vega—weaves a shared imagined geography, encompassing the most everyday parts of our lives, the most seminal places in our personal histories, and the most desired places of our futures. In this traumatic year, returning to these stories of complex personhood and how we can travel in our minds has brought me solace despite the violence that every day brings. I hope that these guided tours help you travel just a little bit, too, remembering what’s precious and what’s at stake.”

The Playground Project, or, Imagined Tours

“I’ve asked people for guided tours for twenty years. Most often, they’ve walked or driven me around their neighborhoods, and I’ve photographed their places."

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#culture #photography #guidedtours

How Oral Histories Can Spark Dialogue Across Communities
Acknowledging and then setting aside the righteous anger over a long-disputed parcel on NYC’s Lower East Side, in order to better imagine its future.
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#LES #culture #cities #community

Strategy – Buscada Working with People | Core Values workshopsThese people-centered workshops help organizations define their core values-like community or engagement-and strengthen their capacity for collaboration, rooted in principles of justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

"Thank you, Gabrielle & Kaushik,
for being our guides, collaborators, instigators, questioners, and so much more!"

Kemi Ilesanmi
Executive Director, The Laundromat Project

Find out more
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#strategicplanning #system #services #modular

The Cities We Need – Buscada An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging.

The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places
An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging.
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#culture #photograhy #books #cities

Strategy – Buscada Working with People | Core Values workshopsThese people-centered workshops help organizations define their core values-like community or engagement-and strengthen their capacity for collaboration, rooted in principles of justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

"Buscada is brilliant at gathering stakeholders and has synthesized our many activities into a coherent tool that helps clarify who we are and where we're going."

Cathy Linh Che
Executive Director, Kundiman

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#strategicplanning #system #services #modular

she also recounts the unfolding of her own awareness, which is also our own as we follow down the sidewalks and into the parks with her."
[On the Seawall]
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Most moving and impactful are the recollections and assertions of the residents themselves; in describing her moments with her guides, ...

"Each of the nine chapters is a rich feast of story, observation, analysis, and experiential impact – and of course, there are Bendiner-Viani’s photographs, displayed most effectively. She aptly cites the work of many authors, researchers and practitioners.

This book will speak to everyone, and most of all to those of us that want to create cities in which we can all prosper.”

Mindy Thompson Fullilove
author of Root Shock: & Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All
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#UrbanLife #CommunityMatters #CityStories

It is a book to savor, a feast for your eyes and heart. And what's more: it shows us how to make the cities we need.

“There's a tenderness about this book that leaps off the page. Reading it, we can't help but feel that we are becoming better human beings. It is a book to savor, a feast for your eyes and heart. ...
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Peer Learning FAB – Buscada Strategic realignment work with FABnyc about how learning spaces and peer networks help sustain arts practitioners through challenging times

𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁
Sustaining the Arts through Networks & Peer Learning
Strategic realignment work with FABnyc about how learning spaces and peer networks help sustain arts practitioners through challenging times
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#Strategic #codesign

AAWW Strategic Plan – Buscada An actionable strategic plan for a  literary organization that cultivates a community of Asian American writers and projects a radical inclusivity of both who is a writer and who is Asian. 

AAWW, Asian American Writers Workshop : Strategic Planning
An actionable strategic plan for a literary organization that cultivates a community of Asian American writers and projects a radical inclusivity of both who is a writer and who is Asian.
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The Cities We Need – Buscada An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging.

The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places
An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging.

MIT Press, 2024

Get the book
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#books #culture #cities #photography

These are the great urban stories we need and deserve.”

Kemi Ilesanmi
Former Executive Director, The Laundromat Project
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#books #culture #cities #ideas #photography