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Waterpod™ is a floating, sculptural, eco-habitat designed for the rising tides. It will depart in the summer of 2009, navigate down the East River, explore the waters of New York Harbor, docking at several Manhattan piers on the Hudson River before continuing onward. The Waterpod™ demonstrates future pathways for water -based innovations. As a sustainable, navigable living space, the Waterpod™ showcases the critical importance of the environment and art, serving as a model for new living, d.i.y. technologies, art, and dialogue. It illustrates positive interactions between communities: public and private; artistic and social; aquatic and terrestrial while exploring the cultural richness of New York's five boroughs and beyond. The Waterpod™ embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. With this project, we hope to encourage growth and progress as we visualize the future. Through its dilatory, watery peregrinations, the Waterpod intends to prepare, inform, inspire, provoke, and fortify humanity for tomorrow's exterior explorations.
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New York City Trees: Meet Your Neighbors
Samuel A. Bishop II, Education Director for Trees New York will introduce you to New York City’s trees. He will discuss the benefits of trees in a city, with focus on New York, and the stories behind some of our more common street and park trees. Learn how to identify some of our more common street and park trees, and what you can do to help protect the trees on your street and help them thrive. Bring your tree questions for the question and answer session. Participants will receive Trees New York’s Urban Leaf and Tree Handbook free >>
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Please come by if you can! Waterpod™ will be docked at 125th Street, Riverside, New York during that time. If you have an article of clothing, linens, even shoes, that need repair or alteration, Artist Myriam Dym can help you out by making an egregious patch, a dramatic intervention, or even an utter transformation. She provides this service in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere, and accepts many things in trade (such as: ideas, conversation, unlikely materials, using up my overstock, documentation, promotion, networking and even cash). Some items will be dealt with on the spot (on a first come, first served basis); other items, ones which require more than a little hand-mending* will be given the treatment at the Dym's Enrichment New York studio. This latter group of articles will be returned to you, the Client, at our mutual convenience. *Not much electricity on the Waterpod™, so the electric sewing machine stays in the studio! >>
Kim Knowlton is Senior Scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Global Warming & Health Project. She researches the links between climate change and health, advocates for stronger climate-health preparedness, and promotes “win-win” projects that can reduce toxic air pollution and greenhouse gases at the same time.
Joyce Klein Rosenthal is a doctoral candidate in the Urban Planning Program at Columbia University. Her research evaluates the impacts of climate on urban health and explores the process by which adaptive strategies are developed and used by communities. Prior to starting work on a PhD, Joyce was Project Director of the New York Climate & Health Project, which created an interdisciplinary modeling framework to project the impacts on air quality and public health from land-use and climate change in the New York metropolitan region in the following decades >>
DIANE BORSATO will be in residence on Waterpod™ researching mushroom species in various neighborhood markets and shops (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Polish etc.) and bringing specimens back to the Pod for collection, identification and drawing. While onboard, Borsato will also be identifying fungi on Governors Island and looking for fungus on the Pod itself.
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