City Matters At The Cooper union
Students investigate the materials and matters of the city: heat, trees, housing, misinformation, laundromats, wildlife, restrooms, transit. Through interactive and sculptural design, each project asks visitors to consider how infrastructure distributes risk, comfort, and opportunity.
Role: Adjunct Professor
I teach Data Visualization as a studio course at The Cooper Union’s Albert School of Engineering, focused on data as public storytelling. Students work with NYC Open Data to build interactive, browser-based projects that translate complex civic systems—housing, transit, health, climate—into legible, human-centered narratives.
City Matters is the culminating student exhibition: a public-facing show of interactive data stories that foreground design, ethics, and audience accessibility. I led the course structure, curriculum, critiques, and exhibition direction—guiding students from raw datasets to polished, deployable work. We had a blast!
More info on the exhibition here.
Event Photography by Alex Burholt.
