TWO OR MORE:
- challenge of outwardness — how does collaboration fit into that?
- community seeding event:
- Alice comes home and gets a letter from Fresh Kills, she knows it used to be a landfill, she’s invited to an event and with the event invitation is a packet of seeds
- she’s invited to an event, a community seeding, and she gets to pick what seeds she wants to use
- on the day of the event, there are many different events she can participate in, including seed grenades —> seed grenade: urban guerrilla garden
- for the areas that are closed off, you can drop your seed bomb with a drone
- how do we document that transformation over time?
- the idea is that people will be coming back over time
- remote view finders:
- metal viewfinder all around new york city, you would walk up to one and see the camera feeds placed around fresh kills
- where do you place your view finder? around the perimeter of the park, or other places in staten island — around bus stops, in the mall, around the mall, bus station in bay ridge
- images would be live camera feeds
- it also tells you how long it takes to get from your location to fresh kills park
- billboard:
- getting people to see on a large scale from the staten island mall, billboards around the entrance and exit so they can see it from afar
- also has a live feed into the park projected on large billboards
- how can you make a billboard collaborative?
- could cycle between informational and visual
ON THE GO:
- split up and came up with three ideas total
- “on the goat”
- something more disruptive — using the “goat pro”
- you own a goat for 24 hours from the website
- then you receive a livestream of the goat — gamifying the goat
- phenomenon of when the snake escaped from the NY zoo and then tweeted out everything it did that day
- you would write in the voice of the goat, you’d be creating a narrative from the perspective of the goat
- idea of a viral campaign
- community involvement
- develop community involvement with a citizen science project to address community concerns about toxicity in the park
- way they propose to do that is to have a mini MakerFaire at the mall where tech enthusiasts show people how to make environmental sensors with technology or do wildlife photography with a remote control — then deploy these projects out in the park and channel this information into a billboard
- would compare data from within the park to data outside of the park
- reference Natalie Jeremijenko project with collecting data from the environment http://www.nataliejeremijenko.
com/ - they can learn how to make it and put it in different places in the park
- fresh kills watch tower
- it’s actually a kiosk not really a watch tower — a hub for all of this information
- diorama that’s touchable and controls media like images that would pop up
- be in one location and look out to many places
- mall is a great way to connect to the community
- something that feels really good to touch
- image is whatever is close to it at that point in time
- also shows sensor data
- what’s the water quality like
- morphing history visuals (to show the changes over time) — shows development into the future
- shows recent and upcoming events
- green screening yourself into different locations in the park
HI-FI / LO-FI
- we had a lot of really strong analog and digital solutions, range from a hot air balloon festival to annual drone festival — split into lo fi and hi fi
- how can we bring people into the park AND how can we reach the community
- Lofi
- farmer’s market — is food from the park safe to eat? goat milk soap, using the methane to blow glass and then sell those wares to the community around as a way to introduce the park to the community
- also a full-fledged artist residency around glass blowing, using the methane as a way to power things — glass blowing is very seductive
- literal watchtower, observation deck that looks down over the park — it’s a very tangible way of taking things outside the park and giving people a look in
- partnering with National Grid — “Your trash, our treasure” and showing on the bill the different engagements and ways to get involved in the park
- we’re removing the toxic things from fish kill but you’re cooking with the methane gas
- make a see through diorama poster to see how far the waste is from where you’re standing
- using the ferry as a vehicle because people are captive
- Hifi
- use of drones to give the community a look inside the park from outside
- annual drone race
- “know your park” — looking at live feed from different drones
- goat pro — streaming live feed from cameras attached to the goats
- augmented reality, building an app that allows you to look inside the park — almost like xray vision that allows you to see what the park will look like when you point your phone at it
- billboards that are cooperations with a local artist
- large-scale light projections from within the park — light coming out of the park or near the park (think of the world trade center beams)
- hot air balloon festival — you can’t see inside and it’s huge, this is a way you could explore the park from outside
- passenger bridge across the highway to get into the park
SMALL FRY
- kids are an important audience — idea of evolving over time
- periphery sensory
- we know the park exists and the park is growing
- this is a walking tour of installations around the perimeter of the park
- parabolic sound installation, it’s like a laser pointer of sound
- this could be low down so it works for kids
- digital billboard
- so people around the park can see whats in the park via the billboard
- picture on the billboard is whatever is directly behind it
- creates the exact image of the tree behind it, you’re seeing the tree
- digital so it could change over seasons
- advertising nature
- sensory tour
- tour around the periphery of the park
- booth would be staffed on saturdays
- flat 3d replica of the park
- children can plant a seed and then revisit it
- kayaks in the mall
- leveraging the popularity of the mall
- experiential play opportunity for the kids — created 3 specific examples of this
- kids can get in the kayak and simulate being in the water but in the mall
- flying station
- you can fly over the park
- you can fly your seagull over the old park that was a landfill
- digital wall
- part of the experience for parents
- puts you in the experience of the park
- simulating what it’s like to walk through the park and go through the future trails
- opportunity for information and events
- addresses skepticism around toxicity of the park – especially with kids