Analysis, Dimensions, Atmosphere, Narrative
Preterm workshop at GSD
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Academic Harvard GSD (Collab- Serah Yatin, MAUD '27)
Preterm Workshop
July ’25
Boston, Massachussets
Urban Research and mapping, Urban Design
Sarah Page, James Musasizi, Curry Hackett
A comprehensive two-week intensive exploring urban design methodologies through four thematic chapters: Analysis, Dimensions, Atmosphere, and Narratives. The workshop investigated infrastructure as an urban design framework, examining the intersections of social, ecological, and logistical systems in Boston. Working individually and collaboratively, we produced layered logistics maps, risk assessments, 3D spatial analyses, speculative atmospheric scenarios, and conceptual diagrams. The final project synthesized these methodologies into an integrated urban intervention proposal, demonstrating the ability to balance multiple infrastructure priorities through evidence-based design and compelling visual storytelling.
​This pilot project aims to transform Boston’s food ecosystem by addressing food deserts and building a comprehensive, equitable food infrastructure network. By creating sustainable pathways to healthy, affordable food access across all neighborhoods, the project will catalyze a resilient food system that nourishes communities, supports local economic development, and fosters a thriving, health-conscious society throughout the city.
In Boston, residents navigate significant food access barriers being surrounded by food deserts with alternatives leading to supermarket produce that is not fresh. Large portions of the neighborhood qualify as food deserts which leads to unhealthy, inequitable and inaccessible food network.
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Strategies of planning modular hydroponic systems through repurposed containers across extensions of households, transitional and industrial land parcels to create a resilient food infrastructure weaving through the scales of domesticity and commons that localises production, consumption and connections for an healthy, equitable and accessible food network
