Alan E. Waxman

Landscapes of health, embodiment, ecosocial theory, big data systems and cryptography, hotspots and real time adaptive management, landscape painting, urban rhythms, tactile immersive wet environments, dance, humor, interspecies communication, psychology of space, toxic/ sacred spaces.

MLA Harvard Graduate School of Design
BA Anthropology major, Japanese minor Whitman College

Alan Waxman MLA (Harvard GSD, 2014) works with high risk groups to improve health outcomes. His agency AWED (awecosocial.com) has conducted studios to prevent violence through place-based data integration with poetry, dance, meditation, and landscape architecture; working with Mark Morris Dance Group, Center For Court Innovation, Storefront For Art and Architecture, Columbia U, and U of Oregon. He has worked for Sorkin Studio, SWA, QRP, and Everdell. He is from the East Bay, CA.

2020 Larkin St Homeless Transitional Youth Center, mindfulness room design (4 week studio)

2019 – 2016 Storefront For Art and Architecture, “Sanctuary in Brownsville, Brkln” (1 year studio) NYSCA, Brookdale

2018 – 2015 Mark Morris Dance Group and Center For Court Innovation, “Urban Rhythms” (2.5 year studio)

2017 John Dewey HIgh School, NYC, mindfulness room design (1 year studio)

2016 University of Oregon/ Myoshinji Temple, “Kyoto Urban Design Program, Fushimi Inari” (5 week intensive)

2016 Center For Court Innovation, Brownsville Builders, (10 week studio)

2016 Brownsville Academy High School, mindfulness room design (10 week studio)

2015 University of Oregon/Myoshinji Temple, “Kyoto Urban Design Program, Central Market and Shimabara” (5 week intensive)

2015 Columbia U/Center For Court Innovation, Urban Rhythms Plaza (10 week studio)

2015 Center For Court Innovation Advertising Studio BBDO, Police Foundation (10 week studio)

2014 Harvard GSD Project Link (Career Discovery) program Malden focus (4 week)

2013 Harvard GSD Project Link (Career Discovery) program Inman Square focus (4 week)

Arch Out Loud, “Sonar Monument to Human Trafficking,” Director’s Choice 2017
Times Square Heart, “Beyond The Cell-fie,” Finalist, 2017
Urban Design Forum, Forefront Fellow, inaugural fellowship 2016
Storefront For Art and Architecture, independent project sponsorship winner 2016
New York State Council of the Arts, arts grant winner “Wilderness and Sanctuary” 2016
China Academy of Art West Lake Sculpture Competition winner Sinking Gardens 2012
His landscapes have appeared in Landscape Theory In Design, ASLA The Dirt, Architect’s Newspaper, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, AM New York, Curbed NY, 6 Sq Ft, QNS, Queens Chronicle,
cont. Landscape Architecture Magazine, Bowery Boogie, New York YIMBY, Amsterdam News

2020 Salus.Global COVID-19 Bulletin
Viral Destabilisation: Psychosocial Design in the time of COVID-19

2018 Urban Design and Mental Health
Behavior Blockchain For Healthy Cities

2018 TreeHouse Society
Black Box Cryptography: Of Zen Noble Truths and Blockchain

2017 New York Academy of Medicine
Mapping Emotion To Improve Neighborhood Health

2017 Urban Design and Mental Health
Preventing Chronic Violence With Urban Rhythms

2017 Urban Design Forum
A New Kind of Hospital Room

2015 Pew Charitable Trusts
Brownsville, Brooklyn, Health Impact Assessment

2015 Melting Pot Foundation
New York City Housing Authority’s Delicious Forest

2014 Harvard GSD
Neighborhood Doctor

2011 Explorers and Scientists in China’s Borderlands UW press
David Crockett Graham