Enjoying the sites of NYC this weekend, I ventured to the Museum of Modern Art for the very first time on Saturday. Even there, hort infra couldn’t escape me! Here, I stumbled across Rising Currents, which opened this spring.
MoMa and P.S.1 Comtemporary Art Center teamed up to address one of the most urgent issues facing New York City: sea-level rise resulting from global climate change. Looking at a variety of research, practices, and infrastructural systems the exhibition brought together five interdisciplinary teams to reconstruct the NYC, NJ, and NY Harbor coastlines. A major design component of each team was the consideration of “soft-infrastructure” (education, health, tourism systems, etc…) as opposed to “hard-infrastructure” (roads, bridges, ports, airlines, etc). In this, communities can be changed generationally through the means of social engagement. Horticutural infrastructure (!!) was also mentioned among the means of addressing rising water levels. In the exhibition the installation presented the teams’ proposals and includes a wide array of models, drawings, and analytical materials. Combining engineering, ecology, landscape architecture, and structural architecture, programs were developed to solve a unique and inevitable problem. For more information please visit http://tiny.cc/ubuk4.
Notably, my very own studio professor Catherine Seavitt at Princeton University co-authored the book that launched the Rising Currents MoMa workshop and exhibition, On the Water: Palisade Bay (http://www.palisadebay.org/). On yet another note…many of the lead architects and collaborators on the project are graduates of the Princeton School of Architecture, both graduate and undergraduate. Shout out to my home department Princeton SOA! (http://www.princeton.edu/soa/).
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