Map sampling will orchestrate recontextualized precedents from various times and locales into semi-fictional future urban environments overlaid and combined with current communities and the sources of their equity. Map sampling is a cultural representation of looking forward and back, graphic provocation, and unfettered community design seeking socio-spatial and environmental justice.
Phase 1 - Mapping will be conducted to reveal underlying socio-spatial inequities in Brooklyn New York City. For instance; environmental landscapes or lack thereof of parks, shading and heat islands, non-pervious surfaces, waterways and flooding; urban infrastructure or lack thereof of trains, expressways, Combined Sewer Overflow events and related watershed areas, high speed internet and renewable energy; Infrastructural, airborne and ground pollution; systems such as historical redlining, the palimpsest of urban fabric disrupted through urban renewal, updated and mixed-use zoning, and non-human centric land-use such as parking; and demographic boundaries over time.