Welcome!

By way of an introduction:

I teach at Columbia University, The New School / Parsons, and Pratt Institute. 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 international cities / campuses. Lately I've been having fun with participatory civic mapping and urban eco-management projects here in NYC. My favorite project of all is collaborating with Mary Miss on her initiative called City As Living Laboratory.

Contact me at ebarry | gmail | com

@lizbarry CV (pdf) Academic Portfolio (pdf) Public Laboratory Parsons Sp11 URBAVORE TreeKIT GrassrootsMapping GSAPP RNYU 10 Parsons Sp10 GSAPP RNYU 09 City as Living Laboratory RPA's Transit Cuts Long Island Coastal Resiliance Project Add A Point Map wiki Sponge City Hudson Riverkeeper Talk To Me USA bike tour Durham Inner-city Gardeners