@olystuart

"Ramps are a repeated pattern that folds into the matrix that is our city — a participatory protocol for filling in the mismatch between the built environment and the collective needs of its inhabitants. Accessibility in New York is something that must be routinely managed rather than fixed once. Ramps are a microsite of how cities are evolving sites of conflict, and how humans mend and patch and participate in them, sometimes in the form of clamshells on the street. Once we find ways, customized to our own curiosities, to start noticing the invisible ways we all participate in our cities, we can start asking better questions about whom those base layers are made for, recognizing them, naming them, and claiming more agency over making them better."

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