Mitchell Lanecki
Mitchell is a creative pivoting from a long successful career in the visual arts. Focussing on the underlying structure of the urban ecology that drives graffiti as an indicator and subject of focus that can help ameliorate present cities and help in pre-design research for multiple future city projects. Confronting institutional biases and design mores he wishes to explore a polydisciplinary approach to his research that imports multifaceted perspectives to his research for the betterment of design understanding.
Project
Validating graffiti as a critic of dead zones and flawed infrastructure in the urban spaces of 3 Montreal boroughs.
Field
Urban / Design
Omen514@gmail.com
Website
Instagram.com/omen514
Statement
For far too long, graffiti has been viewed through a misguided lens that sees the artists as troubled youths recklessly defacing cities without reason or purpose. But what if we shifted our perspective to uncover the true culprits and examine the underlying factors in urban ecology that lead to this behaviour? By taking a more empathetic approach and focusing on the repression of individual agency, we can begin to explore a partial ontological approach that questions the validity of current evaluations and examines the relationship between people and their built environment for the betterment of society as a whole.
