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Eric Moed
Education
Occupations
  • Architect
  • Artist
  • Educator
Known forPublic art, memorialization, architectural design
Notable work"Work Towards Fairness"
"Changing Perspective"
Reinterpretation of "Art of This Century"
Websitewww.officeofopenpractice.com

Eric Moed is an American architect, artist, and educator whose work focuses on public art, memorialization, and the politics of public space.[1] He is the founder of the design studio Office of Open Practice (oopsa) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.[1] Moed is known for public art commissions such as Changing Perspective in Jacksonville, Florida, and for his academic and design work exploring collective memory.[2]

Education

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Moed received a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) from the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in 2012.[1] In 2019, he earned a Masters in Design (MDes) in Art, Design and the Public Domain from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD).[3]

Career

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Academic Career

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Since 2022, Moed has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, where he teaches seminars on memory in the public sphere.[1] He has also been an Adjunct Lecturer at CUNY New York City College of Technology.[1] At Harvard GSD, he was a Teaching Fellow for Krzysztof Wodiczko and taught a course on memorialization.[4]

From 2018 to 2019, Moed was a founding member of the Poetic Justice Group at the MIT Media Lab, where he researched new forms of justice through art and design.[5]

Professional Practice

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In 2020, Moed founded the Office of Open Practice, LLC (oopsa), a transdisciplinary creative studio. The studio has worked with clients such as Interactive Corp (IAC) and The New Museum.[6]

From 2020 to 2022, Moed was a member of NEW INC, the New Museum's cultural incubator, as part of the 'Hybrid Practice' and 'Future Memory' tracks.[6][7] In 2023, he was selected as a Fellow of the Urban Design Forum.[1] In 2022, he was a winner of the Brooklyn Public Library’s BKLYN Incubator, receiving a grant to develop programming for local communities.[8]

Notable Projects and Exhibitions

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Work Towards Fairness (2013)

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Moed's undergraduate thesis project, Work Towards Fairness, won a competition sponsored by United Colors of Benetton. The project involved designing and building a three-pavilion installation at the abandoned home of Aristides de Sousa Mendes in Cabanas de Viriato, Portugal. Sousa Mendes was a Portuguese diplomat who saved Moed's family and thousands of other refugees during the Holocaust.[9] The project received coverage in The New York Times, Haaretz, and Archinect.[9][10][11]

Changing Perspective (2019)

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In 2019, Moed completed a permanent public art commission for the City of Jacksonville, Florida. The project, titled Changing Perspective, consists of a series of sculptural bike racks installed in downtown Jacksonville. The racks function as signposts that point towards sites of significant local Black history, with all racks designed to align in perspective to create a visual link between the locations.[12][2]

Reinterpretation of Art of This Century (2022)

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Moed was commissioned to design a reinterpretation of Peggy Guggenheim's experimental gallery, Art of This Century. The project focused on resurrecting the history of An Exhibition by 31 Women, the first all-women identifying art show in United States history, and was sited in the original building where the gallery existed in Midtown Manhattan.[13][14]

The Matter of Memory (2023)

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Moed co-curated and designed the exhibition The Matter of Memory: a Monument to Memory-Making at the Hazel & Robert H. Siegel Gallery at Pratt Institute. The exhibition featured built works and research by Moed and Richard Joon Yoo, exploring community-led memorialization processes.[15] His related Memory Monument sculpture was exhibited at Hudson Yards for NYCxDESIGN in 2024 and was acquired by the New Museum Store.[16]

Awards and recognition

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  • Fellow, Urban Design Forum (2023–24)
  • Winner, BKLYN Incubator, Brooklyn Public Library (2022)
  • Pedagogical Pioneers Fellowship, Pratt Institute School of Architecture (2022)
  • Thesis Research & Development Award, Harvard GSD (2019)
  • MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Grantee (2018–19)
  • Wendy Evans Joseph Community Service Fellow, Harvard University (2018)[4]
  • Winner, DIA Urban Arts Competition, Jacksonville, Florida (2017)
  • Winner, United Colors of Benetton ‘Unemployee Of The Year’ Campaign (2012)

Publications

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  • Contributor, CLOG: WeWork, 2024.
  • Co-author/Editor, Hybridity, NEW INC, 2021.
  • "Shifting Public Spaces," Monument Lab, 2020.[17]
  • Sharing Paths to Creation, Re(s)public, 2020.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Eric Moed". Pratt Institute. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  2. ^ a b "DUUUVAL: How The Practical Art Came About". NPR.org. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  3. ^ "Art, Design, and the Public Domain publication features class of 2019". Harvard Graduate School of Design. 2 October 2020. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  4. ^ a b Webcontent (8 June 2018). "Thirty-five students awarded fellowships through GSD's Community Service Fellowship Program". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  5. ^ "Overview | Poetic Justice". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  6. ^ a b "Eric Moed". NEW INC. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  7. ^ "NEW INC Announces Seventh Year Members" (PDF). Deutsche Bank. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  8. ^ Pratt Institute. "Can a Memorial Change Our Collective Story?". Prattfolio. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  9. ^ a b Kaufman, David (2013-07-25). "In Portugal, a Protector Is Honored". The New York Times. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  10. ^ "A Pilgrimage to the Home of 'The Portuguese Schindler'". Haaretz. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  11. ^ "Work Towards Fairness: Restoring the Casa do Passal in Honor of its Humanitarian Owner". Archinect. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  12. ^ "Sculptural bike racks nod to black history". The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  13. ^ "Peggy Guggenheim's History-Making Exhibition '31 Women' Has Been Revived—And the Story Behind It Is Wilder Than You Can Imagine". Vogue. 2023-05-18. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  14. ^ "How a Broadway Producer Recreated Peggy Guggenheim's Groundbreaking 'Exhibition of 31 Women' for a New Generation". Artnet News. 2023-05-23. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  15. ^ "On View: "The Matter of Memory: A Monument to Memory-Making"". Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  16. ^ "SoA Faculty Eric Moed's 'Memory Monument' Acquired by New Museum Store". Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
  17. ^ "Shifting Public Spaces, Part 2". Monument Lab. Retrieved 2025-08-29.
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