The Urban Landscape Lab and MTWTF hosted an Educator’s Roundtable at the Safari 7 Reading Room at Studio-X to discuss urban ecology education at the K-12 levels, and to explore how Safari 7 can contribute to programming and curriculum. Participants:
Heather Cardinale, New York City Dept. of Education
Rachel Crumpler, Queens Museum of Art
Glen Cummings, Safari 7
Nathaniel Curtis, iLAND Art
Amanda Dargan, City Lore
Edward Eckert, Growing Up Green Charter School
Christopher Kennedy, Strataspore and Solar One
Janette Kim, Safari 7
Helen Kongsgaard, Safari 7
Jonathan Payne, Safari 7
Miriam Walls, New York City Dept. of Education
(November 22, 2009)
OPEN HOUSE: SAT 12-6PM NOVEMBER 7
LOCATION: Studio-X 180 Varick Street, Ste 1610 New York, NY 10014 – 1 Train to Houston Street
EXHIBITION DATES: October 15-December 31, 2009
Join the curators of Safari 7 in this day-long open house of “Safari 7 Reading Room,” an exhibition including a series of 3D maps, audio listening stations, curated reading materials, and a series of large-scale drawings of animal habitats, behaviors and life cycles in relationship to urban culture and history at selected sites along the MTA No. 7 line.
OPENING: THU 7-9PM OCTOBER 15
PRESS PREVIEW: 6-7PM with exhibition curators
LOCATION: Studio-X 180 Varick Street, Ste 1610 New York, NY 10014 – 1 Train to Houston Street
PRESS RELEASE: link
EXHIBITION DATES: October 15-December 31, 2009
Oysters, dogs, humans, worms, snakefish, cormorants and germs are some of the species that populate the length of the MTA 7 train. The “Safari 7 Reading Room” is an exhibition that presents a series of 3D maps, audio listening stations, curated reading materials, and a series of large-scale drawings of animal habitats, behaviors and life cycles in relationship to urban culture and history at selected sites along the MTA No. 7 line. www.safari7.org and www.urbanlandscapelab.org/work/safari-7-reading-room.
This exhibition is opening in conjunction with the conference ECOGRAM II: Architecture for a Crowded Planet at Columbia University (GSAPP), at Studio-X, a downtown studio for design and research run by GSAPP. It is generously supported by the the Dean’s Office at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. Additional funding from CeX Complete Entertainment Exchange and Ito En.
“Crisis in Crisis” by Erik Carver and Janette Kim is out now in Volume 20: Storytelling, and in Urban China bootlegged by C-Lab for Volume. We examine the Biosphere 2 project’s origins and afterlives as a way to consider contested theories of ecology, crisis, and response– as well as ideologies of self-sufficiency in contemporary urbanism.
WED 7PM @ AIA Los Angeles 3780 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 800
Janette is presenting Safari 7 at “Parks without Borders: A Roundtable Discussion,” moderated by Deborah Richmond and Stephanie Reich.
Erik Carver and Janette Kim have been awarded the 2009-2010 Van Alen Institute New York Prize Fellowship to develop a project called Underdome. “This year’s Fellowship projects focus on three areas of inquiry to which Van Alen Institute has had a long-standing commitment: architectural education, energy policy in relation to the built environment, and techniques of urban representation,” stated jury member and acting Van Alen Co-director Joan Ockman. “The projects address these issues in particularly challenging and innovative ways. We are very excited about the new thinking and synergy they will bring to Van Alen in the coming year.”
FRI 9:15AM @ LA Convention Center
Janette is presenting “Beyond Recreation” at panel discussion called “Parks Without Borders: Public Park Design across Agencies, Boundaries, and Systems” at the Mobius Los Angeles AIA conference moderated by Deborah Richmond and Stephanie Reich.
SUN 1PM @ Front of Times Square No. 7 Platform
SUN 2PM @ Front of Flushing Main Street No. 7 Platform
The next Safari 7 tour will be held as a part of Queens Art Express, a multi-day multi-venue art extravaganza that will take place on three weekends in Spring 2009. Please join us! To participate, follow these two simple steps:
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Meet at the front of the No. 7 platform at Flushing Main Street at 2:00pm. We will ride the subway from Flushing to Times Square.
SUN 1PM @ Front of Times Square No. 7 Platform
SUN 2PM @ Front of Flushing Main Street No. 7 Platform
In our first Safari 7 tour, we will ride the subway from Times Square to Flushing followed by snacks at the Flushing Mall. Please join us! To participate, follow these two simple steps:
FRI 6-8PM, Closing Reception @ Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, 591 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102
The City of Newark Division of Planning & Community Development and Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art are pleased to present THIS IS NEWARK, an exhibition of proposals for marking the points of arrival to Newark and addressing the history and culture of Newark in the urban landscape.
SAT 2-4PM @ Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, 591 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Please join the City of Newark Division of Planning & Community Development and Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art for a roundtable discussion of proposals for marking the points of arrival to Newark and addressing the history and culture of the city in the urban landscape. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition THIS IS NEWARK Gateway Urban Design. Speakers: Glen Cummings / MTWTF, Gladys Grauer / Black Woman in Visual Perspective, Brian McGrath and Victoria Marshall / Urban Interface and TILL, Madeline Ruiz / M|RUIZ design, Ade Tugbiyele Sedita, Anker West & Ada Caro, and other contributing artists and designers. Moderated by Damon Rich, Newark Urban Designer.
WED 6–9PM (doors open 5:30 pm) @ Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102
A public conversation about urban design and identity organized by The City of Newark Division of Planning & Community Development and the Rutgers University Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience. Panelists: Dr. Clement Price, Richard Cammarieri, Robert Curvin, Victor Davson, Carol Johnston, Ade Sedita, Gladys Grauer, Gordon Kipping, Shay-La Maxwell, Tritonic & more.
WED DEC 10 @ Cavallo Point at Fort Baker
Janette is presenting “Beyond Recreation” at the Designing the Parks Conference at a session on “Visitor’s Experience” moderated by Shaun Eyring.