Dialog by Design
September, 2025 - ongoing
Exhibited 12.03.25-12.07.25
Composed of work developed by Maya and Ross, the following presentation spans their practices and workshops conducted over the course of a two-month residency at Residency Unlimited.
As Scatter Practice, they continue to explore the potential of urban practice to directly reinforce existing systems of care and shape discourse around community-driven design with respect to mutual aid in New York City.
“CART1” is designed as a framework for future iterations that can adapt to crisis, celebration, and everywhere in-between.
During their studio residency at the RU House on Governors Island, the duo led four art & design workshops with new New Yorkers that explored making as a reflection of experience and identity in NYC. The participants worked across a range of 2D and 3D crafting techniques, from paper making with materials sourced at the GrowNYC Teaching Garden on Governors Island, to building chairs made with offcuts from a variety of reclaimed/sustainably harvested wood donated by Brooklyn-based workshop & millworks, Tri-Lox. The results of these workshops, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, are layered into the exhibition as a whole.
Throughout the show, Maya and Ross synthesize formats of exchange across mediums and contexts, establishing conversations between their simultaneous investigations. This work underlies the idea that they - as artists and designers - are not separate from social practice, but rather interdependent.
“Dialog by Design” presents a full-scale prototype for a food distribution cart, titled “CART1”, designed for non-profit EVLovesNYC to help streamline their weekly food distribution and community exchange out of Tompkins Square Park in the East Village.
