STREET-LIFE / Architecture
Studio SUMO / New York City

Foremost public and urban, streets are conduits for circulation, interaction and assembly. Though most often defined materially and functionally, they are social infrastructure. While streets characterize cities, street-life characterizes streets. “Street-life” reflects street-sounds, street-culture and people on the street--street-people.

The STREET-LIFE workshop will explore Shimokitazawa as setting and situation. It will use an open process that includes local constituents and a heterogeneous design team to develop an alternative to the District Street 10 proposal. To achieve this we will examine the politics and policies that structure the street as well as the street culture that characterizes Shimokitazawa.