Category: Cities

iLand’s 2012 iLAB Resident Update – Follow the Water Walks

Follow The Water Walks will host members of the Bronx community (NY, USA) in an interactive walk from the top of the watershed in East Tremont to the Bronx River. During the week of October 15, along the way they will explore water flow, game-play and the body as an instrument for mapping and measurement.… Continue reading iLand’s 2012 iLAB Resident Update – Follow the Water Walks

Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, On-Line

“NetWorks Productions” is introducing for the first time on-line a series of lectures that are documents of two Permaculture Design Courses taught by Bill Mollison at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas, in 1994 and 1995. This series, The Permaculture Show, was aired on public access television in the USA, was sold or given to the various… Continue reading Bill Mollison Permaculture Lecture Series, On-Line

launch of ADRIFT – a new project by Cape Farewell

Tom Chivers – Cape Farewell’s Climate Poet-in-Residence Art and climate change organisation Cape Farewell is launching ADRIFT – an interrogation of climate as culture, devised by Cape Farewell’s poet in residence, Tom Chivers (in London, UK). They invite the public for a drink, performance and short film, as Tom Chivers maps the natural territories written… Continue reading launch of ADRIFT – a new project by Cape Farewell

Betsy Damon’s Water Rules-Life

Eco-artist Betsy Damon’s work Water Rules-Life will be exhibited as part of Feminist and…, organized by Guest Curator Hilary Robinson at the Mattress Factory Art Museumin Pittsburgh (USA). This exhibition, open from September 7th 2012 to May 26th 2013, aims to “show that feminism is not a single-issue set of politics but rather a multi-vocal,… Continue reading Betsy Damon’s Water Rules-Life

2012 iLAB Resident – Follow the Water Walks

July 13-15, 2012 Spend time and explore the natural and man-made landscapes that lead from the top of the watershed to the Bronx River. You will play games, dance, draw, write, envision and interact with the communities that call East Tremont home. There will be walking, building, gardening, story-gathering and dancing! The plan is to… Continue reading 2012 iLAB Resident – Follow the Water Walks

NOW – Permaculture in Europe

11th European Permaculture Convergence, 1-5.8.2012 Gastwerke Kassel, Germany Now! This year the EuPC will focuss on Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share in August. For five days 300 activists and designers gather together to start a dialogue on permacultures. Interdisciplinary workshops, lectures and art will be part of the program and will promote European networking… Continue reading NOW – Permaculture in Europe

FLORA URBANA – GREEN ISLAND 2012

Milan Design Week, April 17-22 2012 (Italy) – a project by Claudia Zanfi (director of aMAZElab / Laboratorio del Paesaggio) Garibaldi Train Station, Milan – Opening April 17th at 12 pm The GREEN ISLAND project was created out of the need to bring citizens back to a dimension of greater harmony between the urban fabric… Continue reading FLORA URBANA – GREEN ISLAND 2012

Urban Furrows

As part of Maribor 2012, European Capital of Culture, the “Urban Furrows” programme includes several projects such as “Sustainable Local Supply” (promoting short economic circuits between food production and consumption), a seed library for local plant species and the “Rhizome collective” aiming to empower immigrants and jobless workers, among other projects. Read more on Culture360.org:… Continue reading Urban Furrows

5×5 Project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

District of Columbia (USA) March 5 to April 27, 2012 The temporary public art project 5×5 of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities was established in order to result in twenty-five public art installations in different locations in the District of Columbia this spring. Five highly-experienced and innovative contemporary art curators were selected… Continue reading 5×5 Project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities