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General Information Portable Architecture Water Log |
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Photo of Ridgewood Reservoir by Elliott Maltby
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iMAP - Portable Architecture Concept iMAP (Interdisciplinary Mobile Architecture and Performance) is a collaborative project between choreographer Jennifer Monson and architect Gita Nandan and landscape architect Elliott Maltby, both of thread collective. iMAP is a sustainably designed mobile performance space and interdisciplinary laboratory. Temporarily sited in underused urban areas, the vehicle will facilitate intensive on-site exploration and research, with a particular emphasis on cooperation between artists and scientists. These investigations will lead to the development of performance projects that engage local communities in new understandings of their environment. iMAP will locate these performances for the public, while also exemplifying the type of creative solutions that interaction between different disciplines can generate. The collaborators are committed to seeking tangible solutions to urban dilemmas such as equitable access to the arts, sustainable development, dwindling urban habitats, and *the commodification of* public space. The concept is built, in part, around the adaptable and system oriented processes that Monson has developed in her improvisational dance projects that include BIRD BRAIN and the Urban Migrations. iMAP engages the public's imagination and responds to the flux of urban development with wit and adaptability. |