Join us online or in person at Building 14, Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York, on Friday 29th October where we present a new material and a new approach to making public spaces and buildings based on the FIELD Project, followed by a panel discussion on their possibilities in the built and green spaces of New York, voiced by leading institutions working on climate justice and social resiliency in the city.
We propose that grass should be more than the monoculture, flat, green backdrop to our lives in institutionalized spaces, and that it can play a pivotal role in bringing nature into the urban and reconnecting us city-dwellers to a diverse and wild creativity. Come and feel the innovative grass-based bioplastics we have created, and discover how we will use them as environmentally restorative fabrication and construction materials.
Field is a collaborative project by artists Supermrin, Jessica Fertonani Cooke, material scientist Jil Berenblum, architects Ane Gonzalez Lara, Xenia Adjoubei & Alejandro Haiek, supported by Emily Gordin, and Merav Gil Ad. Carried out with the support of the Inclusive Ecologies Incubator, Pratt Institute, the Franklin Furnace Fund, New York Foundation for the Arts, City Artist Corps Grants, ProArts Gallery, Guerilla Science and the University of Cincinnati.
