JOSEPH ZEAL-HENRY; is a cultural worker bridging public service, cultural production, and spatial innovation for the public good. Currently serving as Director of Cultural Planning for the City of Boston and Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. Here is his INFO, E-MAIL and Instagram.

PROJECT INDEX [WORK IN PROGRESS] PROJECT INDEX

PUBLIC SERVICE

Making Space for Culture
East Bank
Designing a Circular Economy Primer
A House for Artists

CREATIVE PRODUCTION

Proximity Continuum Film
Proximity Open Rehearsal
Dancing Before the Moon
(Venice Architecture Biennial 2023)
SHUBZ at the V&A
SHUBZ at SOAS, Festival of Ideas
Sound & Solidarity
WE ARE HERE at the RIO
NOW YOU KNOW
SOUND ADVICE Branding

SPATIAL INNOVATION

Proximity Continuum Boston
Dox Thrash Garden
SUPA SYSTEM
National Galley 200
Co-Living in Countryside
A House for Britain
Graveney School Sixth Form Block
Wembley Park Drive
Wayland Close
Good Grief Tomb

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BRIDGING PUBLIC SERVICE, CREATIVE PRODUCTION & SPATIAL INNOVATION BRIDGING PUBLIC SERVICE, CREATIVE PRODUCTION & SPATIAL INNOVATION BRIDGING PUBLIC SERVICE, CREATIVE PRODUCTION & SPATIAL INNOVATION

SHUBZ AT SOAS, for the SOAS Festival of Ideas was an act as a collective performance of a ritual of resistance within an institution of power. We collaborated with the Mighty Ruler Sound System, Arman Nouri and invited Saige Sounds and Arthi to DJ sets across many different genres.

Like SHUBZ at the V&A, we look to occupy institutions to pay tribute the Shubeens a predominately diasporic culture, from the Carribean, South Africa and Ireand. It was and still is a phenomenon usually hosted in domestic spaces or small local social infrastructures to create a more informal night culture. The Shubz was a space predominantly for communities who struggled to be culturally represented or even allowed into formal nightclubs. We worked with Borough Workwear to produce more material artefacts for the event with exclusive t-shirts being designed for the event.