Exhibition
Living Concrete/Carrot City
October 01–December 15
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011
Living Concrete examines urban food initiatives and their impact on local communities—from backyard community plots, roof gardens, and farmer's markets to urban farms—through projects undertaken by New School students and faculty. The exhibition features maps, installations, interactive websites, videos and models, several created specifically for the show. Highlights include a "field guide" to local food on the Lower East Side; a participatory project to re-design bodegas; sound and video installations that explore urban beekeeping; and a multimedia piece on Corbin Hill Road Farm, an innovative venture where families in the South Bronx own shares of an upstate farm. Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture, curated by Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar and Joe Nasr from Ryerson University, explores the interchange between urban farming and design, and showcases innovative projects such as grow bags that enable city dwellers to create gardens on any terrain. Carrot City demonstrates how new developments in agriculture impact urban design and how design, in turn, can facilitate a more robust urban food system.
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Living in the urban without a backyard of a planting area never stops us to work and run down our initiatives. People have been converting their roof tops into a greener places. Having bags of sand that can be planted with vegetables and other productive plants. Great to have known people that have initiatives like this. Brilliants ideas. More power and thanks a lot for sharing.
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