Justin Blinder was lugging Taco Bell burritos from neighborhood to neighborhood on his bike for his Uber Eats gig in 2020, watching as skyscrapers and modular apartment buildings gave way to brown-bricked housing projects and cracked streets.
It made the Brooklyn-based artist and software developer think viscerally about affordability, and how abstracted the concept had become in modern discourse.
“We’re sort of confronted with that via top-down maps, and it really doesn’t touch upon the lived experience,” Blinder told Business Insider. “That was sort of like the seed of the project.”
“The project,” as Blinder describes it, is a 3D printed…
