ABSTRACT

Whose voice counts in the making of a city? By foregrounding the needs of children, refugees, social housing tenants, the disabled, and other minority groups, the practice of Muf has been asking this question over and over, in various ways, for more than 20 years. Operating at the ambiguous intersection of public art, participatory practice, urban strategy, and masterplanning, Muf have developed processes that enable these voices to come to the fore, in an implicit critique of the power and priorities of urban development today. We started by asking co-founder Liza Fior what led hier to start the practice.