Activist Estates of the Lower East Side

Activist Estates of the Lower East Side: A digital exhibit and resource based on the book by Nandini Bagchee

The urban historian and architect, Nandini Bagchee, and Curator and Executive Director of The Clemente Soto Velez, Libertad Guerra, have teamed up to launch a digital exhibition and public resource, a spin-off of the eponymous book, Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side by Bagchee. This digital exhibit, accessible at AELES.org, makes the contents of the book and its research publicly accessible and complements it with an interactive map identifying the areas’ historic buildings, coded across themes and modalities of anti-war organizing, ecological and im/migrant centers, and artistic/anti-authoritarian nodes.