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Ben Barsotti Scott

I’m a writer and landscape architect based in New York City. I also curate exhibitions, primarily through a collaborative project called Bad Little Brother. And I’m a student of historical geography, currently researching a series of civilian-led blockades of US Navy terminals in the final years of the Vietnam War.

Occasionally, I’m  also a teacher and critic at schools of art and architecture: see the syllabus for my 2022 undergraduate course on contemporary architectural criticism here. Even more occasionally, I write for architecture and urban geography publications like the the New York Review of Architecture, Critical Planning Journal, and Journal of Landscape Architecture.

You can see my full CV here and you can contact me here.

Ben Barsotti Scott
urban historical geographer and independent curator in New York, NY.

See some of my recent work below. You can contact me here.
EXHIBITION
“Open Center”
2018
An interview with Comfort Station’s Jordan Martins.

In conjunction with Unrestrooms, an unfinished survey of gender and public space, I interviewed Jordan Martins, executive director of Comfort Station Logan Square. Comfort Station is a multidisciplinary arts space on Chicago’s northwest side, housed in a twentieth-century public “comfort” facility. Originally one of nine facilities across Chicago’s Boulevard system, this comfort station acted as both a public restroom and a warming and cooling facility, a public space for a city with extreme winters and summers. The conversation addresses Comfort Station’s internal structure as a socially-engaged arts non-profit, as well as its position in the Logan Square community and the broader regional context. You can read the interview at ISSUU.