Interactive Diagram Showing Connections and Densities of DSGN AGNC Activities in 2012 (roll over lines or nodes | flash required)

JANUARY
01.1-12: RESEARCH: DSGN AGNC Colombia Trip – Furthering Research in Facatativa, Colombia Housing and Research Project

01.10: ACTION: Thanks in part to a #whOWNSpace action, the barriers around Zuccotti Park are removed

01.16: MENTION: #whOWNSpace mentioned in Open-source city: In urban interventions, the metaphor matters

01.19: PRESENTATION: DSGN AGNC and #whOWNSpace work at Selldorf Architects

01.25: MENTION: Article on Java St Garden project: A garden is soon to grow in Greenpoint Read more: Greenpoint Star

01.29: ACTION/EVENT: #whOWNSpace Greenpoint Public Space #BLACKBELT community workshop

FEBRUARY
02.02: ACTION: #occupyLandmarks direct action

02.09: RESPONDENT: to Frank Morales Lecture at Parsons, The Newschool of Design

02.13: PUBLICATION: GILDED in BI blog

MARCH
03.08: PUBLICATION: On the Question of #whOWNSpace in MAS Context’s OWNERSHIP issue

03.27: MENTION: #whOWNSpace mentioned in The Interventionists’s Toolkit: Project, Map, Occupy
03.27: MENTION: #whOWNSpace mentioned in JP Morgan Chase’s Life-And-Death Secret Waterproofing Plan 

APRIL
04.01: PRESENTATION: What Belongs in a City? Discussion Panel

04.16: PRESENTATION: At Immigrant Movement International to a Queens College Social Practice Queens design studio

04.28: PRESENTATION: Next American City’s Tactical Urbanism Salon on DSGN AGNC and Critical Strategies and Meaningful Tactics.

MAY
05.03: TWEET: Thanks to @S_Interventions for supporting and including #whOWNSpace as part of this year’s @la_Biennale

05.24: RESIDENCY: Awarded Artist Residency at Austrian Cultural Forum

JUNE
06.01: COMMISSION: Began Art Residency to study public space at Queens Museum of Art and Queens College and commission to work in the redesign of Corona Plaza

JULY
07.02: EVENT: the Critical and Activist practice: A Discussion at the Austrian Cultural Forum

07.06: MENTION: The City Atlas: Social Practice Queens: Re-imagining and Re-invigorating Corona Plaza

07.08: EVENT:  MEDIA AS TACTIC: from print to practice at the Austrian Cultural Forum
07.08: PUBLICATION: Critical Activism Zine [Draft]

AUGUST
08.17: AWARD: Quilian Riano, named part of the 2012 Next American City Vanguard class

08.22: PRESENTATION: Flux Factory DEATH MATCH

08.29: EXHIBITION: #whOWNSpace and a DSGN AGNC-led action exhibited at the 2012 VENICE BIENNALE
08.29: PANEL: The Image of the City at the American Pavilion, 2012 VENICE BIENNALE
08.29: EVENT/ACTION: As part of the #lgnlgn collective helped set up and frame questions for CITY SESSIONS: SPONTANEOUS TALK, 2012 VENICE BIENNALE

08.30-31: ACTION/EVENT: Urban Intervention Camp, 2012 VENICE BIENNALE

SEPTEMBER
09.01: ACTION/EVENT: Urban Intervention Camp, 2012 VENICE BIENNALE

09.08: ACTION/EVENT: Corona’s Plaza First Community Design Workshop/Taller de diseño communitario #1

09.13: PUBLICATION: Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong of Discole interview with Quilian Riano on Urban Intervention Camp, 2012 VENICE BIENNALE

09.16: PRESENTATION: Beyond Zuccotti: Freedom of Assembly and Public Space Today at the Center for Architecture

OCTOBER
10.10-12: CONFERENCE: Next American City Vanguard – St Louis – Quilian Riano participant

10.25: PRESENTATION: Urban Intervention Camp at the School of Constructed Environments, Parsons The NewSchool of Design, 2012 VENICE BIENNALE

NOVEMBER
11.15: PRESENTATION: DSGN AGNC work at NY Designs

DECEMBER
PLANNING ACTION/EVENT: Early January Intervention Planned for Corona’s Plaza: Diagram and Research Action

LOOKING FORWARD TO 2013: CRITICAL EXPLORATIONS ON THE EXPANDED ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE
We have began 2013 in DSGN AGNC looking forward to a year of designs, actions, events, publications in partnership with a variety of groups. One thing we know for sure, we will continue to explore the expanded role of critical discourse, architecture and design in the building of communities. We look forward to sharing information on events and actions with you throughout the year (subscribe to our updates). Thanks for your ongoing support and feedback, we view it as a key part of our ongoing critical explorations.

Previously: DSGN AGNC in 2011