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name: Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
about: Dr. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is an urbanist, curator, and artist pioneering public arts and urban research for community engagement, and is author of "Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area." A native New Yorker, in a family of New Yorkers, writing Contested City helped her know both her city, and her own family, differently. She is principal of the design and research studio Buscada (www.buscada.com) and teaches urban studies and public art at The New School. She holds a PhD in environmental psychology and was Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Culture at the International Center of Photography.Thriving on helping people have meaningful dialogue in our contested cities, she consults with Dr. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is an urbanist, curator, and artist pioneering public arts and urban research for community engagement, and is author of "Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area." A native New Yorker, in a family of New Yorkers, writing Contested City helped her know both her city, and her own family, differently. She is principal of the design and research studio Buscada (www.buscada.com) and teaches urban studies and public art at The New School. She holds a PhD in environmental psychology and was Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Culture at the International Center of Photography.Thriving on helping people have meaningful dialogue in our contested cities, she consults with arts and culture organizations on community and art engagements and strategic visioning. Her creative practice has been shown at institutions including MIT, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Center for Architecture, the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, and Tate Britain. For more on her work, please visit www.buscada.com and www.contestedcitybook.com. ...more