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Kasspad

Responding to the loss of the World Trade Center, we investigated mechanisms for revitalizing Lower Manhattan. Our guiding principle was cooperative exchange as a salve. What better way to pay to honor to a lost center of commerce than to return to personal, interactive trade.

KASSPAD is a path delineated with modern versions of cheese drying racks. On market days, cheese wheels fill the racks, creating a space for interaction. Within items for sale, certain cheeses are labeled with historic information concerning the earliest markets of Nieuw Amsterdam and Lower Manhattan.