2016 Bronx Presentation

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CALL/City as Living Laboratory and the CALL/BRONX Steering Committee Members invite you to presentations on: Rescue of Tibbetts Brook & Gardens of Engagement Monday November 28, 6-8PM Manhattan College, Fishbach Room in the Leo Engineering Building th

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3825 Corlear Ave., Bronx, New York (one block west of 238 Street & Broadway, subway #1 @ 238 Street)

Refreshments will be served Please join us for presentations by four teams who have proposed projects to make sustainability tangible through the arts focused on daylighting Tibbett’s Brook, a local community priority, and .and expanding the scope of community gardens in a local school and public housing development. The four teams are led by SLO Architecture, Bob Braine, Mary Mattingly and Juanli Carrion. Their project concepts emerged from a fall 2015 workshop organized by CALL at Horace Mann. CALL has been working since early 2016 to raise funds for the projects and is pleased to announce the receipt of two seed grants from the New York State Arts Council and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Finding Tibbetts Brook: Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi of SLO Architecture, in cooperation with Theo Barbagianis, of eDesign Dynamics, will create a micro wetlands on three truck beds on the top level of the parking lot of the Target store at 225th Street in the Bronx, with active support from the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, the Friends of Van Cortlandt Park, and from other collaborating artists. The micro-wetland will function not only as a social space, but as a small-scale means to contain run-off from the parking lot and reintroduce native species back into the neighborhood. Habitat Fountains (working title): Eco-artist Bob Braine will lead this effort to create two small water habitats in the guise of fountains, one in a publicly or privately owned, paved-over open space in Marble Hill near Van Cortlandt Park and the other situated further south (downstream) closer to the Harlem River. These installations will focus attention and imagination on possibilities associated with the daylighting of Tibbetts Brook. Braine will be aided by George Jackman, a CUNY professor of fisheries biology, and by Rebecca Swadek, a botanist with the New York City Parks Department. Outer Seed Shadow #03: This garden-based project is being organized by Juanli Carrion. Carrion’s Outer Seed projects are based on extensive video interviews with residents who live near the site. Carrion will interview residents of Marble Hill Houses, a public housing project, and the garden will be located on the grounds of the NYCHA Houses. The residents will be asked to tell their stories, explaining how they arrived in the area, including experiences with immigration, where appropriate, and how they feel about the terms of coexistence with others in the area. Interviewee’s are asked to name an edible plant to be included in the garden. The plants will be arranged in a way that reflects where the interviewees live in relation to each other.

CALL/BRONX STEERING COMMITTEE: Gabriel de Guzman, Robert Fanuzzi, Jacki Fisher, Christina Taylor

Finding Tibbetts Brook Pop-up Wetlands

Upland Habitat Fountain

Outer Seed Shadow #1, 2014


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