Pierce Erez-Henderson
is an educator, urbanist, and artist. The goal of his practice is two-part: first, to understand and explain learning and knowing; and second, to examine and contribute to infrastructures—at different social, spatial, and organizational scales—that beget learning and knowing. His work thus spans a wide range of physical, digital, sonic, textual, and computational projects that engage audiences across communities and disciplines. Pierce holds master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He resides in Lausanne, Switzerland with his wife, Elif.


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Quartier (2026 - ) 
A generative French-language-learning environment and an experiment in digital, spatialized pedagogy
An investigation of what it might mean to inhabit a language rather than to study it. Set in an inherited apartment in a Parisian quartier, the project explores how characters with their own days, a neighborhood's quiet rhythms, atmospheres calibrated to the learner's level (assessed discretely and from bottom-up), and a mastery collectively shape the experience of becoming fluent in a place.

Link:
inhabit quartier

What does the Heath afford? (2025) 
LSE dissertation on Hampstead Heath and how we make the urban commons
An investigation of how public space quietly governs behavior through material, aesthetic, and temporal cues. Using Hampstead Heath in London as a case study, the dissertation examined how paths, benches, atmospheres, maintenance practices, hydrological systems, and seasonal rhythms collectively shape patterns of use, obligation, and coexistence. 

The Social Meanwhile (2025) 
Urban research on vacancy, care infrastructure, and the adaptive reuse of London’s high streets published in the LSE’s Cities Studio Annual Review
A research and urban intervention project examining how vacant commercial spaces in Finsbury Park could be repurposed as distributed social infrastructure. Developed through fieldwork and policy analysis at the LSE, the project proposed a framework for transforming underused storefronts into a network of care-oriented public spaces through governance structures, community partnerships, and strategic temporary use policies.

Link:
Cities Studio Annual Review

Voxbill (2024 - 25) 
Founder of an invoicing platform for local businesses, exploring how digital tools mediate coordination, labor, and everyday economic life
Voxbill was a mobile invoicing platform for local businesses and independent workers, launched into Apple’s TestFlight and iterated on with users. A question animating this build: what are the computational and infrastructural forms that can compliment and support everyday, small-scale economic coordination? The project served as an early exploration into software engineering and the role digital tools play in this kind of economic sociality.

nooloo (2025) 
A design-commerce experiment investigating the production and curation of domestic space through economic accessibility, digital fabrication, and distribution
nooloo explored whether thoughtfully designed home and wardrobe objects could be made more economically accessible through digital manufacturing and direct-to-consumer distribution. Built from scratch using Shopify Hydrogen, the platform became a very tactical investigation into the operational realities of fabrication, logistics, pricing, advertising, and platform-dependent commerce—exposing part of the infrastructural underbelly of (making and) selling things to people.

Fanzine (2023 - 24) 
Co-founder of a platform for cultural discovery and collaborative curation
Fanzine was a community-oriented digital platform for cultural discovery and collaborative recommendation. We sought to examine how people navigate  online cultural landscapes defined by consolidation and scale and how alternative systems of curation might foster more meaningful discovery and participation. My role was leading the product development and visual system with a small team.

Collaborator: Kabir Chibber (writer, filmmaker, and fellow co-founder)

Link:
fanzine’s website

Aural Architecture (2024)
Shortlist winner for the R3 Design Competition.

We proposed creating an aural system that is specific to its site. Using the region’s physical and sonic matter as the only materiality of the system, this intervention demonstrates how occupying interstitial public space with sound and acoustic design may enhance its utility.

Collaborator: Chris Cummins (sound artist and engineer)

Link:
Sample of proposed experience on SoundCloud

Neighborbuoy (2023)
Proposal to Community Board 8 for developing a social exchange and community- building platform in the middle of 3rd Avenue, between 86th and 87th Street.
A tactical and temporary series of structures that serve a dual purpose: primarily, these structures are designed as dynamic platforms to facilitate inclusive dialogue between neighborhood stakeholders. Then when not actively used for events, these structures transform into ‘public third spaces’ - accessible, welcoming, and open to all community members. 


Collaborator: Elif Erez-Henderson (architect)

Field Work (ongoing)
Consistent praxis-building, (purposefully) never renumerated.
Selected previous. Led volunteer team at PS/IS 366 - Washington Heights Academy, every Saturday. 
Supported three architects in the design and build of a fully adaptive reuse bothy; the architects often brought their children to the construction site, engendering opportunities for pedagogical experimentation in an informal learning environment.

Collaborators: Manuel Estrella (Dean of Culture at Washington Heights Academy), volunteers | Elif Erez-Henderson, Cynthia Deng, Christian Hart Nakarado (architects)

Creative Center of North Carolina (2020 - 22)
Trustee of nonprofit led by networks of community leaders in Winston-Salem and dedicated to providing capacity and support to the creative assets in our community.
As the stewards for our community’s cultural infrastructure, we organized civil society, inventoried the city’s organizational resources across sectors with experts, and convened dozens of public and private stakeholders for equitable economic development. Our motivation was to build a more adaptive, creative, and resilient Winston Salem. 

Collaborators: President, Chair of Board of Directors, seven trustees and dozens of advisors and committee members