Home in Lenapehoking: Planning for a Continued Lenape Presence in New York
Home in Lenapehoking: Planning for a Continued Lenape Presence in New York
Using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) JavaScript API to Examine Wildfire Severity
Team Member:
Rachel Aaronson, Atsede Assayehgen, Jane Cole, Steven Duncan, Caspar, Goldman-Nedergaard, Mumtaz Hammad, Jaron Kaplan, Julia Qian, Andrea Sze, Wendy Wang, Mina Wei, and Ki-Sang Yi
Affiliation:
GSAPP Urban Planning Spring Studio
Advisors:
Professors Sybil Wa and Anthony Borelli
Team Members:
Rachel Aaronson, Atsede Assayehgen, Jane Cole, Steven Duncan, Caspar, Goldman-Nedergaard, Mumtaz Hammad, Jaron Kaplan, Julia Qian, Andrea Sze, Wendy Wang, Mina Wei, and Ki-Sang Yi
Affiliation:
GSAPP Urban Planning Spring Studio
Course:
Advanced Spatial Analysis Spring 24
Introduction:
As settlers studying planning in Lenapehoking, we acknowledge that conventional planning frameworks are deeply rooted in colonial systems of land control and erasure. This studio, in partnership with The Lenape Center, reimagines planning as a tool for repair and futurity.
Over the semester, we supported the Lenape Center in envisioning a cultural and artistic home within their ancestral territory. Through land-use analysis, site design, cost modeling, and decolonial research, we explored how to support embodied sovereignty—one rooted not in ownership, but in reciprocal, consensual relationships with land.
The project reflects an effort to navigate Western land mechanisms while uplifting Lenape epistemologies and resisting extractive paradigms. Our vision is not to dictate space, but to help co-create it—centered on healing, cultural practice, and indigenous self-determination.
Project Deliverables:
Contact
please contact me at my email address
Email: m.wei2@columbia.edu