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The New Mobility of Home:

Temporary Housing Solutions: Staying afloat requires work.


Waterpod is simultaneously an intervention and a gift, brought to life by a collaborative group of forward-thinking artists, designers, and activists working with numerous companies, groups, and communities on a pro bono publico or “for the public good” basis to create a space that is both an inclusive public resource and an experimental private dwelling, an interior and exterior malleable space, an aquatic and terrestrial mobile hybrid.

This project is a work in progress that demands simultaneous creative engagement of producers, designers, builders, visitors, residents, and guests. The design of Waterpod is made up of a mode of social, political, and ecological actions and engagements that describe mobility, autonomy, and relational freedom while respecting water, nature and natural systems. Waterpod is an expression of collective decisions and intent, based on available resources, trial and error, as well as an object and a space that continues to be negotiated through democratic participation and implementation.


How to live together. Waterpod is a composition, a transport, an island, and a residence. Like art, architecture is largely about stories: stories of its inhabitants, its community, its makers and their reflections on the past or expectations of the future. The Waterpod functions as a singular unit with the possibility to expand into ever-evolving water communities; an archipelagos that has the ability to migrate with the tides.
The Waterpod is an extension of body, of home, and of community, its permanence being change. It connects river to visitor, global to local, nature to city, and historic to futuristic ecologies.

In preparation for our coming world with an increase in population, a decrease in usable land, and a greater flux in environmental conditions, people will need to rely closely on immediate communities and look for alternative living models; the Waterpod is about cooperation, collaboration, augmentation, and metamorphosis. With this project, we hope to encourage innovation as we visualize the future fifty to one hundred years from now. The Waterpod embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. It intends to prepare, inform, and provide an alternative to current and future living spaces.

Mary Mattingly Waterpod
First Visualization, Waterpod, 2006 -MM

Mary Mattingly Waterpod
Waterpod - Single Living, 2006 -MM

Mary Mattingly
Waterpod Uniforms (Wearable Homes), 2007 -MM

Mary Mattingly Waterpod Beta
Waterpod Beta, LMCC, 2008 -MM

Mary Mattingly
Inflatable Home, 2008 -MM


Waterpod Beta in the New York Harbor, 2008

BBC News: Waterpod to Combat Rising Seas, August 30, 2009
Karen Rosenberg, Mary Mattingly ‘Nomadographies’, New York Times, May 21, 2009
Vince Aletti, Mary Mattingly, The New Yorker, May 4, 2009
Lauren O’neil-Butler, Mary Mattingly, Art Forum 500 Words, April 1, 2009
Artforum > Mary Mattingly "Second Nature" at Robert Mann Gallery by Martha Schwendener
ArtCritical > Mary Mattingly article by Eric Gelber
City Magazine > Young Bloods
New York Press > Gimme Shelter by Jackie Delematre
Le Monde Magazine > Faut-Il Climatiser La Terre?
Ecotopia > International Center of Photography
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