In November 2023, the Architectural League of New York and The New York State Council on the Arts announced the 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects grant recipients. 25 proposals, representing a range of design disciplines and locations throughout New York State, were selected to receive grants of $10,000 each.

Among the recipients are several projects led by GSAPP alumni:

• Jegko Ki – Benjamin Aranda ‘99 M.Arch
  
• Post-National Civic Space: An archive of the South Bronx Casita –  Saba Ardeshiri '23 M.Arch, Nicolas Nefiodow '23 M.Arch '24 & MSRED, and Maclane Regan '23 M.Arch
  
• Designing Public Power: An Atlas of Public Lands and Design Scenarios for the Implementation of the Build Public Renewables Act – Andrea Johnson '08 M.Arch
  
• Repairing Together: Ongoing and Future Reconstruction Efforts in Ukraine – GSAPP Faculty Galen Pardee '16 M.Arch, with Betty Roytburd
• Multispecies Totem: Exploring habitats and renewable energy – Ian Gordon '06 MSAAD, with Eva Perez de Vega
  
• Presence of the Absence: Reconstructing the Michigan Street Historic Black Corridor –  Darius Somers '14 MSAAD, current student Teonna Cooksey '24 M.Arch & MSUP, with Latoya Kamdang
  
• Sensory Schools: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Neurodiversity – Irina Verona '98 M.Arch and Jennifer Carpenter '98 M.Arch
  
• Rogue Plants, Native Soils: Histories of Destruction and Its Opposites – Lynnette Widder '90 M.Arch
  

GSAPP Faculty Ifeoma Ebo is also among the recipients for the project Reparations in Public Space with Antoinette Cooper.