A re-imagined historic building type that supports democracy in the 21st century

A New Town Hall investigates democracy in the age of social media through the lens of the rural New Hampshire town hall. As a place of assembly, the architecture of the town hall has not evolved beyond its colonial meeting house origins to support the scale and speed at which people communicate today. What should the contemporary town hall—and the practice of everyday politics both online and offline—look like in a networked society?

Project Lead
Joanne K. Cheung

Collaborators
Aimilios Davlantis Lo, Mindy Seu