Rain Catcher
Water Conversations - Leitrim, Ireland
Rain Catcher, 2008
Intervention and exhibition at The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Co Leitrim, Ireland.
Conservation
Ocean Research
The Centro de Oceanografia (CO) is a multidisciplinary marine research centre of the Portuguese national R&D system. The host institution is the Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon (FCUL). The other partner institution is Évora University (UE).
The mission of CO is to develop, at high international level, basic and applied research in oceanography and aquatic ecosystems.
SPURSE | OCEA(n)
OCEA(n)
The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street, New York City). UNDERCURRENTS: Experimental Ecosystems in Recent Art. Organized by curatorial fellows Anik Fournier, Michelle Lim, Amanda Parmer and Robert Wuilfe, May 27th – June 19th. spurse collaboration. 2010
At the Water Table | Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons product designers transform a campus gallery into a fine dining room where professors, alumni, and friends discuss global water issues and design solutions. The next day, the students repurpose the dining tables as work benches for a 24-hour design slam exploring water and infrastructure. Its another weekend at the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons, where building environments and building community go hand in hand.
School of Constructed Environments at Parsons | http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/sce
Ritual and Weather
PRACTICE
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Till Design was founded while making a collaborative drawing in 2001 on an asphalt parking lot surface with two friends. Using paint on rollers and completed over a six month period this drawing was an experiment into a shared question about the shape our body makes in movement, the marks we can make in movement and our perception of those marks in time. The experience of doing this drawing was similar to the act of tilling, that is clearing a ground in which to work, reflect and make a difference.
Urban Rain
The Roosevelt Community Center in San Jose, A, a LEED gold building, was completed in Fall, 2008. My two installations here detain and filter storm water runoff from the roof.
Veden Taika
Veden Taika (The Magic of Water) consists of three floating islands in Salo, Finland. The islands provide nesting habitat for birds and plant based filtration for improving water quality in the Salo Bird Pools, lagoons that were formerly used in the sewage treatment processes of the Salo Municipal Sewage Treatment Facility. Because an abundance of migrating and nesting birds now use the lagoons, the pools have been established as an EU-directive conservation site. The birds need nesting areas separated from surrounding land to protect the eggs and young birds from predators.
Laughing Brook
Salway Park is one of the pilot projects for the Mill Creek Greenway system in Cincinnati, Ohio. I worked with the Mill Creek Restoration Project and Human/Nature landscape architects in partnership with the Cincinnati Parks and Recreation Commissions and the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center to create Laughing Brook. This park, a series of playing fields serving lower income communities, is situated next to Mill Creek, one of North America’s most endangered rivers.
The Gift of Water
Biosculptures™ are living sculptures that use the capacity of carefully chosen plants to clean and filter water. Made of mosses, ferns and other plants growing on stone and concrete structures, they provide ecological and aesthetic solutions to water quality and water quantity problems.
WATERWASH
–Creative consulting, education, and construction services for water quality improvement, wetland restoration, and stormwater remediation–
