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“25 FEET Off Higgins” is a truly student organized zine publication that aims to showcase student work on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins.

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The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins.
Within the ruins of Rome, I found myself attracted to the moss growing in the ruins. Gone the civilization, came the new occupants of their ruins. Even the greatest monuments could not escape the fate of being encroached by nature; gone the white marble now being cladded with lichens and moss.
Lichen systems; moss colonies; weed blossoms. These that we often forget are trying to remind us something. Massiveness often blind us from discovering alternative values in the miniature. When I see these islands of moss on monuments, I know that what has lasted through time, is not the ones with power, but the beautiful “minorities”.
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i hate archaeologists, they ruin everything refusing to let me imagine what with their facts and fancy words what could have been?
“25 ase student work a city, by, for the giantswe fit only into the cracks between their spaces, the mice in the cracks between those and the ants in between everything else maybe if we lived in the walls too, we’d consider our neighbors on an accessible and personal scale. We are un-official, unpolished, non-bureaucratic, and off Higgins. The book’s title acknowledges that Higgins is where we emerged and where we were originally from. However, we must stay away from its jurisdiction. 25 feet from Higgins is where students are allowed to smoke. “25 FEET Off Higgins” is where students are allowed to express themselves freely while having proximity to their base. It is a discussion from beyond Higgins; to be brought back into Higgins.


My project is an exploration of environment and land: from the first people that inhabited it, to the architects that set ground-breaking trends, to our contemporary selves, the city of New York in particular has suffered great transformations.

The most brilliant minds the world has seen left a dent here through paintings, buildings, museums, writing, film, fashion and scientific innovation.
With such precedents, how do we respond to this city’s past and how will we influence its future? How will we build other cities?