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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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SEPTEMBER 2009: WATERPOD™'S FINAL TWO WEEKS

We will celebrate the closing of our amazing four-month journey with "Future of Mobility, Urbanity, and Water(pods)" at the World's Fair Marina in Flushing, Queens from September 16 - 27th. This celebration will include events with the Queens Museum of Art, Conflux Festival, Underwater New York, Swimming Cities, Terreform, Wicked Delicate's Truck Farm, Andrew Faust and the Center for Bioregional Living, hands-on workshops for Thriving After the Flood by artist Christopher Robbins, and Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Response Systems.

We will conclude with an all day "I Remember Future" last days of Waterpod party in conjunction with The Queens Museum of Art, featuring Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis's Truck Farm, Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Response Systems, a sound installation curated by Lauren Rosati, "Ascend" a pirate television broadcast/ planetarium installation by artist James Case Leal, and Trent Wolbe from WFMU djing.

Friday, September 18
2 PM - 4:30 PM
Conflux Festival onboard Waterpod™
5 PM Piledrivers

Saturday, September 19
3 PM Andrew Faust: The Center for Bioregional Living: Urban Permaculture with Andrew Faust; Regenerating Today's Cityscapes
5 PM Elizabeth L. Bradley: Father Knickerbocker Meets the Future, a lecture about the World's Fair

Sunday, September 20
1 PM Christopher Robbins & Matt Bua: Waterborn edibles in New York / Build a solar cooker
3 PM Underwater New York Readings
6 PM - 10 PM Swimming Cities Fundraiser Party

Saturday, September 26
1 PM Christopher Robbins & Douglas Paulson: Jerry-Rigging 101: Build your own boat from urban detritus / Knot tying-bring (stuff that might float)
3 PM Secret School and the K.I.D.S. host a "Wild Tea Party": A workshop on making jam and tea from foraged wild edible fruit
4 PM A lecture with Terreform founders Maria Aiolova and Mitchell Joachim discuss The Future of the Carborexic City
6 PM - 7 PM Artist Hector Canonge's Latitude S. video
6 PM - 8 PM Jérémie Gindre and Frédéric Post, special showcase and sound performance, co-curated by Espace Kugler

Sunday, September 27
11 AM - 11 PM "I Remember Future": All day Goodbye Waterpod™ Party in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art (Trolley Service from QMA to Waterpod™)
12 PM Barbara Flanagan "Water Homes" lecture and book signing
1 PM Christopher Robbins & Ian Warren: Making portable gardens, cereal banks (D.I.Y. protectionism) and food preservation
2 PM - 6 PM Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis Present their Truck Farm
3 PM Urban Secret School and The K.I.D.S. make tea and jam and Cassie Thornton presents Barter System Beauty Salon
4 PM Natalie Jeremijenko's Environmental Response Systems
6 PM - 8 PM Lauren Rosati curates a sound installation in the great dome
4 PM - 11 PM James Case Leal's Ascend Planetarium video installation in the great dome and broadcast installation at the Queens Museum of Art
8 PM - 11 PM Trent Wolbe of WFMU will DJ
9 PM - 10 PM Live Band TBA

Waterpod™ Swimming Cities Contact Swimming Cities announces the 2010 project: Ocean of Blood. We will host events throughout the fall and winter to raise funds and support beginning with a September 20th Sunset Cocktail Night onboard Waterpod™. Only 60 tickets are available for $40 each. RSVP required by Saturday, September 19 to charmschooldesign@gmail.com >>

Waterpod™ and the future
The World’s Fair Marina in Flushing, Queens is the Waterpod’s last stop in 2009. Among the possibilities being actively considered for the next phase of Waterpod™’s mission are:

- A peripatetic Artists’ Residence, docking in all five boroughs
- An Educational Site adjacent to a major NYC high school/college
- A Demonstration Vessel for water recycling and community gardening
- A Scientific Platform for atmospheric and marine experiments
- A Performing Arts Space for concerts, dance, and lectures
- A Public Center for exhibiting sculpture, paintings, and photography and/or
- A Tabula Rasa for periodic architectural redesign

While focusing on collaborative, innovative projects and ideas, the resident artists have been repurposing and transforming all forms of materials. Waterpod™ contains space for: (i) community and artistic activities; (ii) eco-initiatives including food grown with collected rainwater, gray water recycling, and energy provided from environmental and human sources; and (iii) a residence.

Designing an art project that merges science and art to engage people in a new environment via a network of educators, artists, designers, and government officials is the goal of Waterpod project. Waterpod™ aims to collaborate, sharing knowledge and resources to solve problems. Waterpod™ is fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible. If you or your organization is interested in acquiring Waterpod™, please direct your inquiries to Executive Director John McGarvey (johnmcgarvey@thewaterpod.org) or Artistic Director and Founder Artist Mary Mattingly (marymattingly@thewaterpod.org) >>

MY TAKE ON WATERPOD™ by HENDRIK "RIK" VAN HEMMEN
Waterpod™ Nautical Engineer Hendrik “Rik” van Hemmen writes about his experience working on the project and what he sees as its legacy >>

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-Nautical Engineer Hendrik “Rik” van Hemmen inspecting the Waterpod™ barge at Weeks Marine before construction starting. Photograph by artist Derek Hunter.

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SEPTEMBER 2009: WATERPOD™ WEB VIDEO CLIP LINKS
For everyone who might not be able to come onboard our floating eco-habitat before the end of the project next month, we have posted links to short web videos from those who have. Want to virtually visit Waterpod™? Now you can follow links from our website to online video clips about Waterpod™ >>

Waterpod™Urban Permaculture with Andrew Faust focuses on regenerating today's cityscapes including ecological ways to bring clean air, water and healthy soil back into city centers and urban landscapes. Healing the city and healing ourselves.

This workshop will focus on practical tools for creating positive social change, inner-city gardening techniques, indoor and apartment gardening, making fermented foods,
Living Machines and natural wastewater treatment, biogas generators, ecological niche market and value added business ideas, passive integrated water systems, rain gardens that alleviate flooding while addressing sewage treatment plant overflows and clean water, living roofs, rooftop gardens and regional energy systems.

Andrew Faust, founder of The Center for Bioregional Living, has been teaching ecological design and Permaculture for over 17 years. Nearly two years ago he moved to NYC, after homesteading off the grid for 8 years in rural W.V., and hit the ground running teaching numerous classes, speaking on various panels, designing edible gardens, consulting urban and rural clients and volunteering in his local community garden. He is currently working on creating ecological training centers in North America and abroad and inspiring the next wave of students in his 4th full Permaculture Design Certification in NYC. Andrew has taught the PDC course over 13 times since 2003 at Yestermorrow Design/Build school in Warren, Vermont.

For more info visit: http://www.homebiome.com/index.php

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Elizabeth L. Bradley is Assistant Director for Public Programs and Lifelong Learning and Deputy Director of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. She is the author of Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York, published this summer by Rutgers University Press. She edited Washington Irving's A History of New York, has served as a contributor to the Encyclopedia of New York City and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, and has written about New York history and culture for The New York Times and Bookforum, among other publications >>

Waterpod™ Date: Friday 9.18
Start Time: 2:00pm
Location: World’s Fair Marina Flushing, Queens map

Waterpod™ will be docked at the World’s Fair Marina in Queens, giving us the opportunity to talk about the future: what worked with Waterpod 1, and what we have concluded we would change given a chance to try this experiment again.

The Waterpod™ team will tour the on-board closed system, and explore the process of the Waterpod™ from its inception to the possibilities for the future. They will talk about the decision-making behind Waterpod™, how is was built and how it works, the choices made by the residents in their daily lives onboard Waterpod™, and the possibilities for the future of Waterpod™ and Waterpods.

Mary Mattingly is a photographer and sculptor as well as the Founder of the Waterpod. Ian Daniel is a curator, permaculturalist and filmmaker. Ian is the Residency Curator on Waterpod. Jes Gettler is a sculptor living and working aboard Waterpod™. John McGarvey is the Executive Director of Waterpod™. John is a local and international Art/Technology/Creative consultant for the past 15 years as well as an art and politics activist. Hendrik “Rik” Van Hemmen is an aerospace and ocean engineer and a principal in Martin, Ottaway, van Hemmen & Dolan, Inc., a maritime consulting firm that has been in continuous operation in the port of New York since 1875. Rik is Waterpod’s Nautical Engineer.

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