How can museums provide a platform to imagine future scenarios to address social and economic inequalities?

Les Interstices directed a series of four short documentary films with Cohabitation Strategies as part of a multifaceted installation about the housing crisis in New York for the exhibition Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities at MoMA (NYC) and at MAK (Vienna).

The film explore the ongoing uneven development across New York City’s boroughs by exposing— through local narratives— the economic, social and spatial inequalities mirrored in the unprecedented housing crisis. The narratives describe the experiences of local advocates for housing justice —citizens, activists, artists, writers, community organizers, academics and urban experts. They reveal the other New York City by exposing some of the agents and outcomes of illegal conversions, homelessness, foreclosures, land values, vacancies and re-zoned inner city areas.

It was meant to help people understand the complexity of the crisis, explore the roots of strategy already being deployed to address it, as well as serve as cognitive scaffolding for the future scenarios also exhibited, bridging together the art, cultural and urban planning worlds .

Watch the film here.