common room 2 is a room in manhattan's lower east side that explores the production and use of the built environment.

common room 2 is in the public lobby of a mid-century office building that houses several non-profit groups.

common room 2 displays works and projects engaging the community in a dialogue about the structures of the built environment: including social, economic, and political structures.

common room 2 locates these far-ranging structural dialogues-- and revises them-- through consideration of its local contexts.

common room 2 is continually renovated in an open-ended process of participatory decision making.