This course focuses on how crafts can play an essential part in social empowerment, where making takes place in public spaces and as a form of civic engagement. Using simple hand tools and found materials, we set out to identify and make use of local assets to work in collaboration with the local communities in NYC. Using the basic woodshop at Parsons, we will create our own nomadic tools to move making to the streets, to hack into and complement the urban environment with civic purpose, supporting emergent publics and practices.