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Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy

, United States of America
I am an artist, architect, and community organizer based in Somerville, MA. As a Research candidate at MIT, my work investigates forms of civic resistance in an age of surveillance capitalism. I co-launched the event series Labor Party, where we have explored alternative models of spatial production, focused on ways of working and playing together. We hope to learn together new ideas for collective authorship, forms of interrelated stewardship, and radical care through this.

Call for ideas 2021

Care Pods


What Can a Community Do?

Care Pods


What Can a Community Do?
This project presents two site-specific case studies: Crown Heights Mutual Aid, which is developing pods to support local farms and enable bulk purchasing; Mutual Aid Medford Somerville, where they hope to practice transformative justice within their pod structure.
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  • Site-specific cases

CHMA, now consisting of two thousand members, knew their food relief was unsustainable, prompting the organization to think about longer-term strategies: decentralizing into a series of food pods. A proposal was adapted from the Neighborhood Solidarity Cooperative Grocery Project, looking to partner with Soul Fire Farm, East New York, Farms Rise, Root Farm, and others.

Mia Mingus, a trainer for transformative justice, claims that we need another word for 'community,' a more quantifiable one: "Pods." MAMAS has recently developed protocols of transformative justice to its existing pod system. They're currently bringing in external transformative justice practitioners to facilitate the accountability process and train other pod leaders in MAMAS for future instances.

How can we continue landscapes of care, long past the pandemic? Organizing care pods are just one tactic. As Adrienne Maree Brown once noted, all organizing is science fiction.

Care Pods


What Can a Community Do?

Care Pods


What Can a Community Do?
This project presents two site-specific case studies: Crown Heights Mutual Aid, which is developing pods to support local farms and enable bulk purchasing; Mutual Aid Medford Somerville, where they hope to practice transformative justice within their pod structure.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

CHMA, now consisting of two thousand members, knew their food relief was unsustainable, prompting the organization to think about longer-term strategies: decentralizing into a series of food pods. A proposal was adapted from the Neighborhood Solidarity Cooperative Grocery Project, looking to partner with Soul Fire Farm, East New York, Farms Rise, Root Farm, and others.

Mia Mingus, a trainer for transformative justice, claims that we need another word for 'community,' a more quantifiable one: "Pods." MAMAS has recently developed protocols of transformative justice to its existing pod system. They're currently bringing in external transformative justice practitioners to facilitate the accountability process and train other pod leaders in MAMAS for future instances.

How can we continue landscapes of care, long past the pandemic? Organizing care pods are just one tactic. As Adrienne Maree Brown once noted, all organizing is science fiction.


Idea by

Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy
United States of America
I am an artist, architect, and community organizer based in Somerville, MA. As a Research candidate at MIT, my work investigates forms of civic resistance in an age of surveillance capitalism. I co-launched the event series Labor Party, where we have explored alternative models of spatial production, focused on ways of working and playing together. We hope to learn together new ideas for collective authorship, forms of interrelated stewardship, and radical care through this.