Welcome!

By way of an introduction:

I teach at Columbia University and The New School / Parsons. I'm mostly interested in questions, playing outside, and their hybrids.

I'm from North Carolina, where I studied landscape architecture and co-coordinated a youth urban agricultural enterprise called the Durham Inner-city Gardeners (DIG). My dedication to public life brought me to NYC to catalyze streetcorner interaction throughout the five boroughs with a sign that said "Talk To Me". After bringing the project around the country via bicycle and some hitchhiking, I returned to NYC to earn a masters degree in Urban Design from Columbia's GSAPP. Post-graduation I joined Skidmore Owings and Merrill's New York office to design open space systems for new cities / campuses. Lately I've been having fun with several participatory civic mapping and urban eco-management projects. My favorite project of all is working with Mary Miss on her initiative called City As Living Laboratory.

Contact me at ebarry | gmail | com

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