Follow The Water Walks will host members of the Bronx community (NY, USA) in an interactive walk from the top of the watershed in East Tremont to the Bronx River. During the week of October 15, along the way they will explore water flow, game-play and the body as an instrument for mapping and measurement.… Continue reading iLand’s 2012 iLAB Resident Update – Follow the Water Walks
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Call for Papers: Feminism, Science & Materialism conference
The Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Committee on Interdisciplinary Science Studies at the Graduate Center are organizing a conference on Feminism, Science & Materialism, taking place at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, from Feburary 14-15, 2013. The conference will focus on looking with feminist perspectives on the… Continue reading Call for Papers: Feminism, Science & Materialism conference
Environmental “artshop” and teaching laboratory this fall at Parsons the New School for Design
From the 27th of September, continuing over a four-month period, artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs and scientists will be offering a wide array of interactive exchanges, ranging from workshops to of-site explorations at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design (NYC, USA). The focus of this laboratory lies… Continue reading Environmental “artshop” and teaching laboratory this fall at Parsons the New School for Design
iLand’s 2012 iLAB Resident Update – Higher E.D.
On Sunday September 23 from 11 am – 5 pm, the public can join Higher E+D (Ecology and Dance) to gather aerial data with kites/balloons and field data through dancing bodies. Meet Lailye Weidman, Jess Einhorn and Liz Barry at Governor’s Island and travel to Lower Manhattan (NY, USA) with Higher E+D for a day of kite-mapping… Continue reading iLand’s 2012 iLAB Resident Update – Higher E.D.
Yoko Ono and the “artists against fracking” coalition
“Yoko Ono said it was not hard to recruit more than 180 artists to help convince Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York not to allow natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale through the hydraulic fracturing process known as fracking.” Read more on the New York Times website
Land Art Generator Initiative design competition
New York The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) aims at designing public art installations that have an additional benefit of large scale clean energy generation. Each sculpture can continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid and thus potentially provide power to thousands of homes. In 2012 the Land Art Generator Initiative holds a design… Continue reading Land Art Generator Initiative design competition
People Unite for the Future We Want
New York December 16th On Friday, the 16th of December from 1pm-6pm environmental, youth, and social justice groups from all over the world will unite in order to claim a true and lasting change for people and for the planet. Therefore they will take action while the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development preparatory meetings… Continue reading People Unite for the Future We Want
