An interactive garden meant to initiate a conversation about climate change, energy use, and green urban spaces.
Designed and constructed by New York University students, this earth lodge featured speakers and live sensors hidden among the plants that reacted to the visitors' touch. The idea was to “re-nature” Times Square so that the public could contemplate new aspects of nature within our cities.
We invited people to explore soothing living vegetative surfaces and recognize the stark contrast of their hyper-electrified surroundings. The students designed and built an open central sphere for visitors to circulate through so that they could encounter a microcosm of hanging gardens.
Around the sphere there was a greenscape of serpentine living benches for rest, gathering, and contemplation. The whole project, start-to-finish, had to be erected and removed in a 24-hour period. It was a place to re-imagine Times Square’s consumer culture into a truly sumptuous environmental future.
Credits
LEADERS: Mitchell Joachim, Louise Harpman, Peder Anker, Keith Miller.
COLABORATORS: Namira Abdulgani, Kylin Chen, Ella Dagan, Jordan Frand, Michelle Hessel, Renata Kuba, Gal Nissim, Isabel Paez, Tigran Paravyan, Lutfiadi Rahmanto, Leslie Ruckman, Abhishek Singh, Edson Soares, Katie Temrowski, Jed Watson, Yang Zhao, Theo Mandin-Lee, Jordan Marks, Max Mezzomo, Valerie Mu, Shel Orock, Alex Selz, Henry Wang.
STAFF: Karim Ahmed, Jenny Kijowski, Nicholas P Likos, Lillian J Warner, Matthew Tarpley, Shandor Hassan.
Selected Works
Lua 2.0Fostering Entrepreneurship Through a Humanized Shopping Experience and Increased Efficiency of Social Commerce
Lua 4.0Helping Independent Sellers to Start and Boost Their Online Business
WePulseImproving Health and Wellbeing Through Multidisciplinary Professional Collaboration
CrosswordsFlooding a Room with Words to Celebrate Portuguese Language
MixgogoHelping Music Lovers to Discover New Sounds and Attend Events, based on Location and Date.
Breaking InShort movie | Graduate School Project
Don't Call This UsMusic video | Client: Aaron Pfeiffer
Solar Power ManPerformance | Graduate School Project
Communion360º video | Graduate School Project
DiscontrolInstallation | Graduate School Project
VogameInstallation | Graduate school project
MixerThis production house website is a content agregator and network of creatives
EtcWeb app | Client: Mixer Produtora
WeeshhWeb app | Self-funded venture
Flickr NightsContent & Community
Sneakers - Stepping into the urban cultureDocumentary | Self-funded Project
Blue Man BrasileiroContent & Community
#VaiGrandeRioContent & Community