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The iLAND Symposium is coming up Friday, March 26 & 27

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Friday’s event includes a keynote speech by renowned public artist Mary Miss followed by brief presentations by iLAB residents – Strataspore, investigating the phenomenon of mushrooms in the city, StEM, Phil Silva and Timon McPhearson’s urban forest mapping project and Jennifer Monson, engaging watersheds and ground water through dance in the Mahomet Aquifer Project. On Saturday we will offer workshops on site in the city, lunch and small group discussion. [Read more…] about The iLAND Symposium is coming up Friday, March 26 & 27

Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway

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Rob Pirani, the Region Plan Association’s Director of Environmental Programs, presented at iLAND’s March symposium on plans for the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, which is a 14-mile bike and pedestrian path along Brooklyn’s waterfront that is being planned and conceived by the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway

NYC From a Native Plant’s Perspective

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iLAND Symposium attendees were treated to a presentation called NYC From a Native Plant’s Perspective: Mapping NYC as Native Flora. This was a collaboration between choreographer Lise Brenner, Brooklyn Botanical Garden Native Flora Curator Uri Lorimer, and landscape architect and visual artist Katrina Simon. These three individuals were the iLAB 2007 residents, who worked on their residency from July through October 2007 in NYC. [Read more…] about NYC From a Native Plant’s Perspective

Opening Remarks from the Symposium

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photo by Bob Braine

Last month’s symposium had a great turnout and a variety of thought-provoking presentations. Over the next few weeks, the presentations will be posted online so that they can be shared with a much wider audience. For starters, here are the opening remarks from artistic director Jennifer Monson. An excerpt is below:

“Both art and science are fundamentally creative fields where there is a strong desire to investigate the unknown. Often the only way we can develop our understanding of something is by making a creative leap that dislodges our assumptions of it. This is part of the nature of experimentation and innovation – to put things together in an unexpected alchemy.”

Stay tuned for the next post – on NYC from a native plant’s perspective.