Circular City Week New York, Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom, Universe City × The Vanderbilt Republic proudly present Free Rob Will III: “Psychosocial Dimensions” — an immersive group installation, documentary screening series, performance / talkback / community workshop program & special guided neighborhood tour of the food sovereignty and social justice activist businesses blossoming in East New York/Brownsville today. Circular economy is a future-facing global trend, with the potential to transform industries and redesign urban living. The transformative potential of circularity is not specific to a single sector, but can be linked to everything from digitization and the sharing economy, to the food industry and the built environment. In this second annual staging of Circular City New York, mass incarceration abolition enters the discourse in a powerful way — via the burgeoning movement to Free Rob Will.

Ideas of rehabilitation, forgiveness and grace are present when design economists speak of the recycling of resources, and there is no resource more valuable in any society than PEOPLE. We need people to engineer, advocate and implement the next-generation solutions that will advance our society into a sustainable formation.

Free Rob Will III: Psychosocial Dimensions will present these important social movements of mass incarceration abolition and economic/design circularity in deeply interconnected ways. Installed as an immersive curatorial encounter designed by George Del Barrio at Universe City’s bustling 5,000ft² East New York aquaponic startup/co-working/production studio, Free Rob Will III will feature artwork by Robert G. Will, William Ellis, Joaquín Jutt & Hivewild paired with a robust program of screenings, talkbacks, performances, workshops and more: