Spatializing Reproductive Justice

A traveling exhibition

Co-curated with Lori Brown, Lindsay Harkema and Bryony Roberts
Exhibition Design by FLUFFFF
With work by students from Syracuse University, City College New York and Columbia GSAPP, as well as Kent State University, Harvard GSD, Princeton University and Pratt Institute
New York, Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio and more, 2022 - present

Addressing a post-Roe v. Wade landscape, this traveling exhibition explores the spatial, legal, and social logistics of reproductive healthcare access within hostile political contexts. Building on the work of design studios across three institutions, the exhibition presents analysis of reproductive healthcare networks as well as architectural strategies for countering threats to bodily autonomy. Expanding the discourse across institutions, the exhibition travels to both safe and restrictive states, fostering dialogue between designers, students, healthcare providers, and advocates, and gathering more research and design work as it travels. Looking beyond the design of clinics, the architectural proposals explore themes of care, site, affect, malleability, and programmatic hybridization—concepts also conveyed through the installation’s flexible design. Amidst increasingly restrictive contexts, these speculations slip between judicial boundaries and nestle within spaces of exception. This work makes visible social justice issues that are often private, unseen, and under-acknowledged within the architectural discipline.

In the press

Supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, in association with ArchiteXX