Real Great Society (RGS) members as featured in Life magazine article (lower row) 1867 and later, CHARAS founding members (upper row), as featured in CHARAS: The Improbable Dome Builders, 1973. Above, the University of the Street, an alternative educational institution founded by the RGS


Illustration by Nandini Bagchee.

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This project is an expansion of the themes from the exhibit Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida (2019) authored and designed by the urban historian and architect Nandini Bagchee in partnership with curator Libertad Guerra.

AELES is an evolving resource that can grow to include supplemental layers of the case studies selected and the ongoing survival and futuring intents of these legacies.