mayimfrieden

                                                                                                                             
i work towards destabilizing the assumptions scattered throughout the built environment and within the design industry, challenging the perceptions and behaviours they encourage

via research projects, editing assistance, or writing pieces, i seek out alternative, collaborative, approaches to engaging with our environment and one another

my work is shaped by being queer & trans as well as the trans designers, writers, and thinkers that came before me <3





projects  cv
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 are now in the process of gathering insight through the form below

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for which self do we self-track? 
article, 2023commissioned by creative studio and research practice, affect lab, mayim attended and wrote upon a two-part workshop on queering the quantified self, held by Radical Data

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public space for which public?
MA thesis, 2023




  • in analysing the 
  • extent to which 
  • public space
  • design
  • accommodates 
  • trans and
  • gender diverse 
  • people, mayim
  • applied spatial and
  • qualitative
  • research methods
  • upon two case
  • studies; in turn, the 
  • influence that
  • design features and
  • corresponding
  • design histories
  • have over public
  • space’s ‘public’
  • nature is identified, 
  • and alternative 
  • approaches are 
  • explored

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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, mayim explores 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
mayim questions how the application of actor-network theory within design studies can be expanded by integrating individuals’ urge for autonomy and the impacts this has on design usage--through 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,
  • mayim studies how a
  • seemingly
  • mundane object is
  • saturated with
  • harmful ideologies
  • and symbols      

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