2021
10/02/21
Van Alen Block Party
10/01/21
303 Bond
Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
07/22/21
Neighborhoods Now Summer Summit
05/10/21
Future Streets: Lessons and Paths Forward from Open Streets
05/08/21
Breathing Pavilion:
A Weekly Music Series
Keyon Harrold
A Weekly Music Series
Keyon Harrold
05/04/21
Breathing Pavilion:
A Weekly Music Series
Participatory Drum Circle led by Mr. Fitz of the Brooklyn Music School
A Weekly Music Series
Participatory Drum Circle led by Mr. Fitz of the Brooklyn Music School
04/27/21
Breathing Pavilion:
A Weekly Music Series
Lakecia Benjamin
A Weekly Music Series
Lakecia Benjamin
04/20/21
Breathing Pavilion:
A Weekly Music Series
Neil Clarke
A Weekly Music Series
Neil Clarke
04/13/21
Breathing Pavilion:
A Weekly Music Series
Baba Donn Babatunde
A Weekly Music Series
Baba Donn Babatunde
04/06/21
Breathing Pavilion:
A Weekly Music Series
Joel Ross
A Weekly Music Series
Joel Ross
03/30/21
Breathing Pavilion:
A Weekly Music Series
Melanie Charles
A Weekly Music Series
Melanie Charles
03/23/21
Breathing Pavilion: A Weekly Music Series| Kalia Vandever
2020
10/07/20
Neighborhoods Now Summit: Strategies for Reopening and Recovery (Part 2)
10/06/20
Neighborhoods Now Summit: Strategies for Reopening and Recovery (Part 1)
Sarah M. Broom
07/28/20
Van Alen Virtual Book Club:
The Yellow House
The Yellow House
07/23/20
Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge: Design Showdown
Rebecca Solnit
06/30/20
Van Alen Virtual Book Club:
A Paradise Built in Hell
A Paradise Built in Hell
06/26/20
Neighborhoods Now Kickoff
05/28/20
Reimagining
Brooklyn Bridge
Transportation Infrastructure
as Public Space
Brooklyn Bridge
Transportation Infrastructure
as Public Space
05/27/20
The Ultimate Insider’s Brooklyn Bridge
05/26/20
Van Alen Virtual Book Club:
The Nature Fix
The Nature Fix
04/28/20
Van Alen Virtual Book Club:
Capital City
(SOLD OUT)
Capital City
(SOLD OUT)
02/28/20
Van Alen Book Club
The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York
The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York
01/28/20
Van Alen Book Club:
Happy City
SOLD OUT
Happy City
SOLD OUT
2019
12/15/19
Keeping Current Festival: Ribbon Cutting & Block Party
12/14/19
Flood No More: A Climate Art Pop-Up (Cancelled)
12/12/19
Keeping Current Festival: Climate Adaptation Fair
Coffee Hour
12/08/19
My Essex Crossing
Tour
12/07/19
Layered SPURA
Tour
12/06/19
Site Unseen
Panel Discussion
12/05/19
Private Means to Public Ends
Benefit
12/04/19
Winter Party 2019
11/18/19
Unveiling: “Ziggy” at Flatiron North Public Plaza
11/16/19
Meet the José Martí Park Design Team!
11/07/19
Premiere Screening of Van Alen Sessions: Borderlands
11/01/19
Beyond Money: How Development is Delivering Social Value
10/29/19
Van Alen Book Club October 2019: Building and Dwelling
09/24/19
Van Alen Book Club September 2019: Darwin Comes to Town by Menno Schilthuizen
09/23/19
North Miami Community Design Workshop
08/27/19
Van Alen Book Club August 2019: Urban Appetites by Cindy Lobel
08/04/19
Keeping Current: Community Engagement Event
07/30/19
Van Alen Book Club July 2019: The Municipalists by Seth Fried
07/16/19
Flatiron Talk Tuesday
06/25/19
Van Alen Book Club June 2019: The Smart Enough City by Ben Green
Conversation Series
06/11/19
Designing Inclusive Growth: Universal Design
Benefit
06/06/19
Van Alen Spring Party 2019
Variety Show and Exhibition
06/01/19
MADE in Queens (Site City Future)
05/28/19
Van Alen Book Club May 2019: Radical Suburbs by Amanda Kolson Hurley
Conversation Series
05/14/19
Designing Inclusive Growth: A Conversation Series, Designing for Marginalized Communities
04/30/19
Van Alen Book Club April 2019: Open City by Teju Cole
Public Engagement
04/18/19
Crossroads Conversations
Exploration
04/14/19
Tale of Two Cities: High Rise /Low Rise
Conversation Series
04/09/19
Designing Inclusive Growth: A Conversation Series, Designing the Future of Work
Roundtable Discussion
04/03/19
LICNYC2020: A Design Perspective / PT2 LIC
03/26/19
Van Alen Book Club March 2019: Fear City by Kim Phillips-Fein
Exploration
03/24/19
Getting There and Back and Around
03/21/19
See It Through Buffalo
Fit City Miami 6
03/15/19
Fit City Miami 6
Roundtable Discussion
03/06/19
LICNYC: A Design Perspective / PT1 NYC
02/26/19
Van Alen Book Club February 2019: Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg
Screening
02/11/19
Screening of Van Alen Sessions Season Five: Fireproofing the Future in California
2018
11/27/18
Van Alen Book Club November 2018: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Benefit
11/05/18
Fall Party 2018
Benefit
11/05/18
Fall Party 2018
11/04/18
My Gowanus
11/04/18
Make YOUR Playground
11/03/18
Variety Show: Desire Path
11/03/18
Flash Design Competition: Intervention
11/02/18
Person Place Thing with Majora Carter
11/02/18
Food Justice
11/01/18
Public Private Personal
10/30/18
Van Alen Book Club October 2018: Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities by Witold Rybczynski
09/25/18
Van Alen Book Club September 2018: Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin
08/28/18
Van Alen Book Club August 2018: Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
07/31/18
Van Alen Book Club July 2018: The New Urban Crisis by Richard Florida
Short Documentary Films Premiere
06/28/18
Van Alen Sessions Season 4: Turning the Tide in Miami
Variety Show
06/23/18
Embark/Disembark: The Urban Mobility Variety Show at FIGMENT NYC
Flash Competition
06/22/18
Delancey, Grand & Essex: Pizza & Build
Public Discourse
06/21/18
Going and Coming: A Crossroads Conversation
Discussion
06/20/18
Mind the Gap: Improving Urban Mobility through Science and Design
Screening and Discussion
06/19/18
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Discussion
06/18/18
The Politics of Mobility
Exploration & Conversation
06/17/18
Everything but the L Train: The Williamsburg Challenge
Bike Tour
06/17/18
Life in the Bike Lane: Bike Brooklyn
Exploration & Conversation
06/17/18
From the Bus: The M101 from the EV to Harlem
05/29/18
Van Alen Book Club May 2018: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
04/24/18
Van Alen Book Club April 2018: 10:04 by Ben Lerner
04/21/18
Car-Free Earth Day
04/12/18
Van Alen Spring Party 2018
03/27/18
Van Alen Book Club March 2018: Van Alen Book Club: The Third Plate – Field Notes on the Future of Food
02/27/18
Van Alen Book Club February 2018: Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Elizabeth Goodman
2017
11/20/17
Flatiron Reflection Unveiling
Live Radio Show
11/13/17
Person Place Thing: Mary Travis Bassett
11/12/17
Van Alen Variety Show
Walking Tour
11/12/17
St. Vincent’s Love Triangle: Sexual Health, Civil Rights, and Memory in the Village
11/12/17
Van Alen Book Club November 2017: Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospitalby David Oshinsky
Flash Competition
11/12/17
Emergency Contact: New Ideas for Neighborhood Mental Health Centers
Mindfulness and Movement Workshop
11/11/17
Wellness at Westbeth: Mind/Body/Spirit Equilibrium on the Urban Front Lines
Walking Tour & Discussion
11/11/17
Triborough Gardens of Healing
Launch Party
11/03/17
Perspecta 50: Urban Divides
Short Documentary Films Premiere
11/02/17
Van Alen Sessions Season Three at Architecture & Design Film Festival
10/28/17
Swedish Design Moves: Democratic ArchitectureArt in Public Space
10/28/17
Swedish Design Moves: Democratic ArchitectureInnovation
10/27/17
Swedish Design Moves: Democratic ArchitectureCulture and People
10/26/17
Swedish Design Moves: Democratic ArchitectureNature & Wellbeing
Public Space Discussion
10/26/17
Crossroads Conversations at Chicago Architecture Biennial
Variety Show
10/25/17
Chicago Culture Flow
10/15/17
Open House New York
10/10/17
Van Alen Book Club October 2017: Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Livesby Sarah Williams Goldhagen
10/03/17
Ocasionais e Planejadas: Lições Sobre Densidade Urbana em São Paulo
Benefit
09/28/17
Fall Party
09/16/17
Crossroads Conversations at IdeasCity
09/12/17
Neri&Hu: Obsessions
09/02/17
Opportunity Space: Crossroads Conversations
09/02/17
Opportunity Space: Meet me in Malmö
09/01/17
Opportunity Space: Hip Hop Workshop
09/01/17
Opportunity Space: My Meeting Place
09/01/17
Opportunity Space: Next Generation Architect
08/31/17
Opportunity Space: Next Stop: Malmö Rosengard Station
08/31/17
Opportunity Space: Keys to Swedish Working Culture
08/31/17
Opportunity Space: Keys to Workplace Diversity
08/30/17
Opportunity Space: Living School
08/30/17
Opportunity Space: Gateways to the Job: CV
08/30/17
Opportunity Space: Migrants and Refugees: City Policy and Development for Inclusion
08/29/17
Opportunity Space: Us vs. Them
08/29/17
Opportunity Space: Admiral City Visions
08/29/17
Opportunity Space: Not Alone
08/28/17
Opportunity Space: Biking School
08/28/17
Opportunity Space: Entrepreneurs Lab
08/28/17
Opportunity Space: Start Coding!
08/27/17
Opportunity Space: Malmö Share
08/27/17
Opportunity Space: Digital Storytelling
08/27/17
Opportunity Space: Soup Kitchen
08/26/17
Opportunity Space: Studieförbunden Day
08/26/17
Opportunity Space: Intercultural Dialogue Medina
08/25/17
Opportunity Space: Dance Performance: Hanan Group
08/25/17
Opportunity Space: Second Hand Cafe
08/25/17
Opportunity Space: Now Hiring!
08/24/17
Opportunity Space: Breaking Bread
08/24/17
Opportunity Space: Textile Room
08/24/17
Opportunity Space: Interfaith Storytelling
08/23/17
Opportunity Space: Immigrants Stand-Up Comedy Network
08/23/17
Opportunity Space: Paths to Work
08/23/17
Opportunity Space Malmö 2030
08/22/17
Opportunity Space Inclusive City
08/22/17
Opportunity Space Global Green Thumb
08/22/17
Opportunity Space Opening Ceremony
08/15/17
Van Alen Book Club August 2017: Silent Springby Rachel Carson
07/11/17
Van Alen Book Club July 2017: The Drowned Worldby J.G. Ballard
06/13/17
Van Alen Book Club June 2017: In The Café of Lost Youthby Patrick Modiano
06/01/17
PLOT Launch Party
Roving Variety Show
05/18/17
RE-districting: A Non-Siteseeing Tour
Roundtable Discussion
05/18/17
Talk/Back: Urban Nervous Systems
Discussion
05/17/17
Gowanus Triple Bypass: Art, Environment & Real Estate
Public Discourse
05/16/17
Crossroads Conversations: Infrastructure
Live Radio Show
05/15/17
Person Place Thing: Justin Davidson
Street Food Walking Tour
05/14/17
Second Avenue: Knish Alley Revisited
Flash Competition Presentations
05/13/17
To the Streets
Book Launch Party
05/12/17
Spring Books Soirée
05/09/17
Van Alen Book Club May 2017: The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisisby Patrick Kingsley
Public Discourse
05/08/17
Crossroads Conversations: Gender & Sexuality
05/04/17
Drawing Intersections: Visions for Density in Architecture
Public Discourse
04/21/17
Crossroads Conversations: Our Planet
04/18/17
Van Alen Book Club: The City & The City by China Miéville
Public Discourse
04/07/17
Crossroads Conversations: Health
03/20/17
Crossroads Conversations: Immigration
Benefit
03/16/17
Van Alen Spring Party 2017
02/23/17
Book Launch: Thirtyfour Campgroundsby Martin Hogue
02/21/17
Van Alen Book Club: How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Natureby George Monbiot
01/31/17
Van Alen Book Club: The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
01/10/17
Van Alen Book Club: Manhattan Transferby John Dos Passos
2016
Public Discourse
12/08/16
Crossroads Conversations
11/21/16
Flatiron Sky-Line Unveiling
11/17/16
Fall Party * Point of View
Performances & Videos
11/12/16
Playback Your Story
Stories & Sounds
11/12/16
Intersection Mixtape
11/09/16
VAN ALEN VARIETY SHOW
Radio Show Recording & Live Music Performance
11/07/16
PERSON PLACE THING: ALICIA GLEN
Discussion
11/06/16
VAN ALEN BOOK CLUB | ROBERT MOSES: THE MASTER BUILDER OF NEW YORK CITY
Fast-Paced Presentations and Discussion
11/03/16
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: REAL ESTATE, THE ARTS & THE VALUE OF SPACE
Walking Tour
11/02/16
LOWER MANHATTAN MANDATE: BLACK GOTHAM
Fast-Paced Presentations and Discussion
11/01/16
IN THE LAND BANK: BORROWING, BANKRUPTCY & BAILOUTS
Walking Tour
10/30/16
MIDTOWN MANDATE: TRUMP & THE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE
Flash Competition
10/29/16
OPEN POLL
Archtober Goes Nordic
10/19/16
Nordic Approaches to Creating Livable and Sustainable Urban Environments
10/13/16
Van Alen Book Club: Christodora by Tim Murphy
Workshop
09/26/16
Launch of L-ternative Visions: Reimagining 14th Street and Beyond
09/13/16
Van Alen Book Club: Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea by Mitchell Duneier
08/24/16
Gateways to Chinatown: Workshop
07/14/16
Memorials for the Future Workshop
07/11/16
Crossing the Street: Building DC’s Inclusive Future through Creative Placemaking
Variety Show
06/16/16
THE RUPTURE
Short Documentary Screening & Discussion
06/15/16
POWER LINES
Radio Show Recording & Live Music Performance
06/14/16
PERSON PLACE THING:
JAN GEHL
JAN GEHL
Discussion
06/13/16
VAN ALEN BOOK CLUB: ZERO K BY DON DELILLO
Flash Competition
06/12/16
L TRAIN SHUTDOWN CHARRETTE
Neighborhood Exploration & Conversation
06/11/16
L.E.S. DECODED
Tour
06/11/16
A SKATEBOARDER’S GUIDE TO FULTON MALL
05/10/16
Van Alen Book Club: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
05/06/16
Book Launch: Platform 8: An Index of Design and Research
Benefit
04/13/16
Van Alen Spring Party 2016
04/12/16
Van Alen Book Club: Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
03/08/16
Van Alen Book Club:Black Deutschland: A Novel by Darryl Pinckney
Conversation
03/07/16
Inhabiting the City: Global Communities and Urban Space
Celebration
02/17/16
Screening of Van Alen SessionsSeason One: Tunnel Vision
02/11/16
Building Equity
02/09/16
Van Alen Book Club: The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
01/12/16
Van Alen Book Club: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
2015
Workshop
12/14/15
Building Equity
Fall Party
11/19/15
Whispers from the Design World
11/18/15
Nova by SOFTlab Launch Event
Discussion
11/10/15
VAN ALEN BOOK CLUB:M Train by Patti Smith
Conversation
11/09/15
PERIPHERAL PROPOSALS: Models for Commuting from the Margins
Radio Show Recording & Live Music Performance
11/08/15
PERSON PLACE THING: David Adjaye
Walking Tour & Writing Workshop
11/08/15
SPATIAL POETICS: VALE OF CASHMERE
11/08/15
ESTUARY ESCAPE
Photo Tour, Neighborhood Exploration, & Conversation
11/07/15
CHINATOWN EDGES
11/06/15
BOOK LAUNCH: Heroic, Underdome, and Waterproofing New York
11/05/15
VAN ALEN VARIETY SHOW
Conference
10/16/15
This Public Life Festival of Landscape Architecture
Presentations, Critique, & Celebration
10/15/15
Urban SOS: All Systems Go Finalist Event and Winner Announcement
10/13/15
Van Alen Book Club: On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square by Marshall Berman
Conversation
10/08/15
Shore Up
Discussion
10/07/15
Public Natures | Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi, Stan Allen, Barry Bergdoll, Alexandra Lange, David van der Leer | Architectural Explorations in Books Series
Conversation
10/01/15
International Perspectives on Chicago and the Future of Urban Change
09/24/15
Members Event: Community Garden Tour and Picnic with 596 Acres
09/08/15
Van Alen Book Club: The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities by Joe Flood
Exhibition & Discussion
07/31/15
Gentrification Lab NYC:
7 Stops on the L-Line
7 Stops on the L-Line
Conversation
06/13/15
IN THE PARK: Play Futures
Nature Workshop
06/13/15
IN THE PARK: Play Present
Playground Tour
06/13/15
IN THE PARK: Play Pasts
Conversation
06/11/15
ON THE STREET
Storytelling
06/10/15
WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME
06/09/15
BETWEEN THE LINES: Van Alen Book Club
A pop-up school of local experience and neighborhood celebration
06/06/15
A BROOKLYN BARRIO: Living Los Sures
Medley of Presentations, Conversations and Performances
06/04/15
HANGOUTS!
05/15/15
NYC DESIGN TALKS AT THE COOPER UNION presented by Van Alen Institute
Benefit
05/13/15
Van Alen Spring Party 2015
05/12/15
Van Alen Book Club: 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
04/27/15
Design Trivia Night
04/23/15
The Design Competition Conference
04/23/15
The Design Competition Conference
04/14/15
Van Alen Book Club: Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony Townsend
03/10/15
Van Alen Book Club: Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
Private Tour
02/25/15
“X MEETS Y” Members Event: NYU’S Center for Urban Science & Progress
Panel Discussion & Conversation
02/19/15
Thinking Big: Competitions at the Scale of the City
Presentation & Conversation
01/29/15
Ecologies of Addiction
2014
Design Presentations
12/14/14
Escape Routes: New Itineraries
Walking Tour
12/14/14
Escape Routes:
High Bridge History
High Bridge History
Project Presentation & Conversation
12/13/14
Door to Door: Innovating the Commute
Event
12/13/14
Door to Door: Subway Games
Interactive Walk
12/13/14
Door to Door: Neighborliness
Discussion & Performance
12/12/14
City of Cities
Event
12/11/14
Ultimate Exit: the Architecture and Urbanism of Tech-Secessionism
Storytelling
12/10/14
New York, Just Like I Pictured It
Event
12/09/14
Influx and Exodus: Two Conversations on Urban Density
Film Screening
12/08/14
City Screens: GET LOST!
Book Talk
10/15/14
Members Event: A Conversation with Architect and Urbanist Jaime Lerner
Tour
09/16/14
Members Event: The Snøhetta-designed Pavilion at the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum
Tour
08/26/14
Members Event: See What Happens to your Recyclables at the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility
Tour
07/23/14
Members Event: Escape to Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Newest Piers
Tour
06/26/14
Members Event: Get Your Hands on the Latest Textures at Material ConneXion
Benefit
05/21/14
Van Alen Spring Party 2014
Film Screening and Discussion
05/19/14
Outside In
Yoga Session
05/18/14
Embodied Architecture
Walking Tour
05/17/14
Urban Mindfulness
Roundtable Discussion
05/14/14
What is Well-Being, Really?
Tech and Demo Conversation
05/13/14
How Does the Brain Respond to the City?
Construction Workshop & Conversation
05/10/14
Emerging Public Spaces
Launch Event
05/09/14
The Imprint of the City
05/08/14
Scale It Up: Bridgeport
05/03/14
Scale It Up: Rockaways
Research Workshop & Tour
04/27/14
How Does the Brain Respond to the City?
03/23/14
Scale It Up: Staten Island
03/22/14
Scale It Up: Asbury Park
Tour & Cocktails
03/20/14
Members Event: Drinks and Conversation in One of NYC’s Most Unique Homes
03/15/14
Scale It Up: Lower East Side
Walking Tour & Conversation
02/19/14
Members Event: Tour of the 2014 Times Square Valentine Heart and Q&A with Young Projects
Tour
02/05/14
Members Event: Visit Donald Judd’s Restored SoHo Home & Studio at 101 Spring Street
Curated Tour
01/29/14
Members Event: Curator-Led Tour of “Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy”
2013
Reception & Tour
12/04/13
Members Event: An Exclusive Tour of the UN Scandinavian Council Chambers
Panel Discussion
11/17/13
Cities, Not Nations?
Walk & Presentation
11/17/13
The Footprint of Escape
Conversation
11/16/13
Let There be Night
Workshop
11/16/13
Debt, Design, Displacement
Event & Walking Tours
11/15/13
We Live with Animals
Opening Event
11/12/13
An Evening of Escape
Fall Party
10/22/13
Escape to the Skyline
Walking Tour
06/11/13
Members Event: Hard-Hat Tour of Governors Island