Legal Instruments

Harvard GSD Studio, spring 2022

Instructor: Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

“Almost all of [the] laws and institutions are quite capable of being turned around.”
- Michel Foucault, “Space, Knowledge, and Power”

In a radical studio called Moratorium on Construction, I researched two legal instruments relating to construction and urban development: adverse possession claims and a multi-family conditional use code. Given the slow pace of governmental change, these could be used creatively to adjust development habits using already established legislation, but they may still require some modification.