Safari 7 Reading Room
An exhibition at Studio-X, a downtown studio for design and research run by Columbia University GSAPP.
The Reading Room in the news
- Holland Herald, the KLM In-flight Magazine(Jan 2010)
- Columbia Political Review(Dec 2009)
- GOOD (Dec 21 2009)
- am New York (Dec 17 2009)
- The Daily News (Nov 10 2009)
- The Brooklyn Rail (Nov 2009)
- The Architect’s Newspaper (Oct 28 2009)
- WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show (Oct 21 2009)
- Columbia Global Centers (Oct 19 2009)
- BLDGBLOG (Oct 16 2009)
Nov 18 2009
Educator’s Roundtable
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)
Nov 7 2009
The Safari 7 Reading Room Open House is Saturday Nov 7
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.
OCT 22 2009
Safari 7 on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show!
OCT 16 2009
Princeton American Studies Undergrads visit the Reading Room
OCT 15 2009
Opening Party
photo: Ho Kyung Lee
photo: Ho Kyung Lee
photo: Ho Kyung Lee
OCT 10 2009
Installation
OCT 3 2009
The Safari 7 Reading Room is Opening on October 15
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
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.
OCT 3 2009
Safari 7 is now on facebook.
PROJECT CREDITS
Team
Glen Cummings, MTWTF
Janette Kim, Director, ULL
Kate Orff, Founder and Director, ULL
Research and Design Associates
Yuval Borochov, Jordan Carver, Susan Choe, Aliza Dzik, Lisa Ekle, Robin Fitzgerald-Green, Steven Garcia, Kathryn Hotler, Sayli Korgaonkar, Jenny Noguchi, Jonathan Pettibone, Evan Sharp, Gena Wirth, Soohyun Park
Studio-X
Gavin Browning, Programming Coordinator
May 2009 podcasts were created in Janette Kim’s seminar on urban ecology at the Barnard and Columbia Colleges Architecture Program by Alex Cook, Emily Glass, Aaron Hsieh, Ryan Johns, Meg Kelly, Sayli Korgaonkar, Lesley Merz, Stephanie Odenheimer, Grace Robinson-Leo, Evelyn Ting, Alexandre Vial, Alison Von Glinow.
Podcast interviews with Steven Handel, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers University; John Mattera Planner, NYC Parks; Susan Elbin, Director of Conservation, NYC Audubon Society; Donald Karatzas, author of “Jackson Heights: A Garden in the City”; Katie Mosher-Smith, NY-NJ Baykeeper; Ed Westley Jackson Heights Beautification Group and numerous Queens and Manhattan residents.
The exhibition is organized by MTWTF, the Urban Landscape Lab at Columbia University and Studio-X. It is in-part supported by the Dean’s Office at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. Fabrication support from the Avery Digital Fabrication Lab at Columbia University. Special thanks to CeX, Complete Entertainment Exchange, Ito En and Izze Sparkling Juice.