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Collecting Otherwise Manuals  
Nieuwe Instituut
managing editor
2024-25




from an archive’s acquisition to its classification, or from facilitating collaborative archival research, to socio-spatial encounters with still-standing architectural archives, each manual proposes a set of step-by-step instructions, encouraging archival organisations, initiatives, or institutions to ask themselves similar questions to those that guided the formation of Collecting Otherwise’s archival tool shed



as managing editor, with editorial advisors Delany Boutkan and Setareh Noorani, i oversaw the publication of each manual, from conceptualization to distribution








bebe magazine, vol. 1,
trans-issue
managing editor
2024





bebe magazine’s first issue offers a broad constellation of possibilities for queer understandings, beyond identity-based reduction, each curator and contributors using a term with the pre-fix ‘trans’ of their choosing

as managing editor, i worked with the selected curators and contributors on the concept, writing, editing, and structuring of their pieces

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how 2 use the public bathroom
when ur trans
[intake form]
2024








‘how 2 use the public bathroom when ur trans’ will be a guide combining the architectural floor plans of public bathrooms with our, and other trans people’s, strategies for and experiences with the public bathroom; we’re now in the process of gathering insight below:

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for which self do we self-track?
article, 2023

commissioned by creative studio and research practice, affect lab, mayim attended and wrote upon a two-part workshop on queering the quantified self, hosted by Radical Data

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public space for which public?
MA thesis, 2023




analysing the extent to which public space accommodates trans people, I conducted spatial and qualitative research using 2 case studies. I then identified the influence that design features, and design history, can have on the ‘public’ nature of public space, and exploring alternative possibilities 

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public space for which public?
 article
trans magazine #5 2023



reflecting upon the parameters and standards they were taught studying urban and architectural design, mayim submitted a collage and corresponding writing piece exploring how they have used this medium both to understand potential urban futures as well as their transness  

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the public bathroom
BA thesis, 2022


through an interdisciplinary analysis of new york city's infrastructural, urban, and design histories, i explore the sociocultural beliefs and tensions that have led to the architectural typology of the public bathroom that is familiar today

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an actor-network theory of design
essay, 2022


i question how the application of actor-network theory within design studies can be expanded by considering our urge for autonomy and the impact this has on design usage--using the push-button traffic sensor found throughout the Netherlands‘ bike lanes

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the 1939 world’s fair bench
essay, 2021


  • in analysing the 1939 
  • world’s fair bench 
  • designed by robert 
  • moses, i study how a 
  • seemingly mundane 
  • object is shaped by, 
  • and symbolic of, 
  • prejudice 

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