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JUNE 2009

Crisisfronts.org the online presence of Michael Chen and Jason Lee’s collaborative research seminars and studios is live.

Urban Valves by Michael Chen and Jason Lee is published in Unspoken Borders, Ecologies of Inequality, published by the University of Pennsylvania.

MAY 2009

Michael Chen teaches an advanced options studio at Pratt Institute, Police States: Biopolitics and Tactical Urbanisms of the NYPD

APRIL 2009

The Unfolding Apartment is a featured project on Dwell Magazine’s website.

The Unfolding Apartment is featured on treehugger.com in a feature, “Small Apartments with Big Impact”

Michael Chen is a recipient of a Pratt Institute Faculty Development Grant for research on Database Urbanism.

MARCH 2009

Cognitive Maps and Database Urbanisms written by Michael Chen and Jason Lee and featuring the work of their Pratt Institute seminar and studio is published in Vague Terrain 13: CitySCENE

FEBRUARY 2009

Normal Projects is developing art direction and product design scenarios for a sustainable water extraction and purification technology for Immerse Global.

JANUARY 2009

Michael Chen contributes an article to the University of Pennsylvania Unspoken Boundaries Conference publication