MUD 712 - FALL 2025
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GRADUATE STUDIO I
MASTER OF URBAN DESIGNMUD 712 - FALL 2025PROFESSOR
Gabriel Cuéllar“JUSTICE”
Strictly Infrastructural
This studio took the invisible realm of infrastructural urban conditions as its ‘site.’ We focused on the relationships between space, place, and law through the lens of landownership, tackling several questions: How does property, and other forms of spatial law, entrench disparities? How might it also empower residents? How can designers creatively mobilize property to their advantage? What forms of urban design—activist, practical, speculative, interdisciplinary, participatory—become possible? Where does Ann Arbor—a city whose homeowners seem intent on preserving the status quo—go from here? How ought property—the basic urban infrastructure—change in response to present predicaments?