Elsa Ponce
Elsa Ponce is a Mexican-born architect, interdisciplinary designer, and educator based in Brooklyn. She leads Studio Elsa Ponce, a research-based design practice that challenges hegemonic processes toward spatial justice and community access.
Elsa’s research and design work has been awarded support from NYSCA, Mexico's Endowment of the Arts, Art Omi, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Elsa teaches Professional Practice at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. She is a co-founder of WIP Collaborative, a shared feminist practice of seven designers working on projects that engage community and the public realm.
Together with the Workers Justice Project, Studio Elsa Ponce is working on the design and development of Street Hubs for NYC’s Day Laborer Workforce. In her work and teaching, Elsa speculates on the borders of traditionally defined disciplines and the power of mutual action to connect people with their environment and each other.