In this workshop led by Garine Boghossian, we will take inspiration from the representation of spatial orientation, movement, and routes in the Armenian mental mapping tradition in order to reflect on our own diasporic passages to New York.

By producing a collective map that records our (or our families’) journeys to New York City, we will explore how generational memories of homelands, diasporic sites of refuge, and migration routes have been preserved (or not), and how these memories shape us at the individual and communal levels.

🗓️ Sun. May 10, 2026
⏰ 3:00-5:30pm
📍Brick Aux (628 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn)
🌀Free with RSVP—spots are limited (25 participants max)

This workshop will be the most effective and interesting if we take a bit of time to think and talk with family members about our histories. To facilitate this, there will be a set of questions for participants to consider as you register for the workshop.

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About Garine Boghossian

Garine Boghossian is an architect, urbanist, and founder of An Armenian Atlas, based in New York. She is a senior urban designer at ORG New York, where she leads large-scale urban and regional planning projects worldwide. She is a visiting critic at Cornell University this semester and has taught architecture and urban design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and the Boston Architectural College. Garine is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the American University of Beirut. Her writing has appeared in Expansions (La Biennale di Venezia, 2021), The Funambulist, Broken Nature, and Wasafiri.

Diasporic Passages to New York: An Armenian Mapping Workshop

Diasporic Passages to New York: An Armenian Mapping Workshop