The Hub—Es nuestro / C’est à nous / এটা আমাদের / 这是我们的 / It’s Ours
Mixed-Media Installation Featured at the New Museum’s NEW INC DEMO2025 FestivalNew York City
This mixed-media installation presents a preview of The Worker’s Justice Hub—a community center for delivery, construction, and cleaning workers in Brooklyn, co-designed by the Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) and Studio Elsa Ponce.
The installation brings forward the stories and the everyday elements of the Hub—benches, reception desks, tables, and storage solutions—objects often overlooked, yet essential to shaping hospitality. In collaboration with workers, these components were reimagined as vessels for connection, recognition, and mutual respect. A chair becomes more than seating; a desk becomes more than a service point. Together, they form the foundation for encounters that honor dignity and care.
Visitors are invited to sit, listen, and participate: to hear stories from workers, trace the Hub’s design process, and reflect on hospitality as a universal principle for survival. In a world marked by displacement and division, The Hub insists that designing for dignity is resistance—a radical act of building futures grounded in solidarity and shared humanity.
The exhibition’s title, expressed in five languages spoken across WJP’s staff and the low-wage worker community in New York, underscores collective ownership. Rather than offering inclusion into a space built for them, the title declares that The Hub is theirs—constructed through their labor, shaped by their needs, and sustained by their presence. Against the extractive logics of gig work, this multilingual chorus reclaims space, asserting the right to belong, to gather, and to be recognized.
Special Thanks To:
NEW INC, The New Museum, The Worker’s Justice Project, Antonio Martínez Solís, Michele de Maria, Live Footage (Topu Lyo and Mike Thies), Isabel Flower, Marc Rabinowitz, Construct Workshop, and LICHEN.
Photos by Carlos Galek Sefchovich