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Hi,
Thought I'd finally send you my background list that I put together
for the talk. It's far from organized... I'll make a blog post as soon
as I can.
Thanks for your input!
Best,
Maria
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River Walk@OMSI, outside the museum on the esplanade along the
Willamette River. (It opened in spring 2001, and was developed by
Vicki Coats who is still at OMSI.). One of the components is a simple
metal pipe that you look through at the downtown Portland skyline.
When you do, you see a line that indicates how high the waters were
during the cataclysmic Missoula Floods (13,000-15,000 years ago) at
the end of the last ice age. All but the top few stories of the
tallest building in Portland would have been underwater! The component
really helps put the magnitude
of the floods into a meaningful context.
Map of the Mississippi River system on Mud Island in Memphis: Water
flows through the channels and ends at a pool representing the Gulf of
Mexico.
http://www.mudisland.com/
Bay Area Discovery Museum, Lookout Cove
http://www.baykidsmuseum.org/tour-the-museum/lookout-cove/
Mikael Pauli Water Art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjPXQsnO9Pg
Artist Peter Richards famous ?Wave Organ? in the Marina of SF:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/arts/28sfculture.html
Artist Mark Brest van Kempen?s work:
http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-51.html
Artist Daniel McCormick?s work:
http://danielmccormick.blogspot.com/
The Bay Model:
http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/
Hidden Ecologies Project:
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/hiddenecologies/?p=276#more-276
South Bay Salt Pond Preservation Project
http://www.southbayrestoration.org/science/
Kite Aerial Photography segment from KQED Quest:
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/06/23/cameras-that-float-through-the-air/
Ledia Carroll project at Southern Exposure:
http://soex.org/person/91.html
Bureau of Urban Secrets waterfront tour at Southern Exposure:
http://soex.org/pastsoexoffsiteprojects.html
Outdoor Exploratorium final installation site at Fort Mason:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/outdoor/ - /vrlocation/you-are-here/
MOMA NYC: Rising Currents: imagining waterfronts with a higher sea level
?Rising Currents: Projects for New York?s Waterfront,? ? they vary
from spongy streets to reefs made of glass or oysters to apartment
buildings dangling above the brine. Despite their varied approaches,
all the teams agree that the traditional solution?barricading the city
behind high, hard walls?is just a start. They craft a waterfront
that?s more like a beach than a bulwark: a soft urban edge that
welcomes waves, drinks them up and puts them to work, and lets
floodwaters ebb without drama.
The future could involve dismantling the seawall, ringing the harbor
with wetlands, and embracing the city?s maritime identity. This seems
at first like surrender?throw open the floodgates, let in the
tides?but it?s more like jujitsu engineering. A mushy, absorbent
coastline is nature?s defense against storm surges, and it doesn?t
need a tryout: We know it works.?
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1031
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23383&page=1
Clip from Municipal Art Society, NYC watefront teaser, ?City of Water?:
http://vimeo.com/852162
Artist Bruce Odland?s outdoor listening project at NYC Battery Park:
?Blue Moon?
http://www.o-a.info/bluemoon/frameset.html
Scientific Project at Lake Champlain, a partnership with the USGS and
a local TV station:
http://nh.water.usgs.gov/echo_gage/menu.htm
?Wildzones?: one of many projects seeking to create open-ended spaces
for outdoor play for kids.
http://www.wild-zone.net/www.wild-zone.net/Home.html
NYT articleon the power of people and animals at the Gulf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/magazine/03turtles-t.html?pagewanted=6&_r=1&ref=bp_plc
Seattle?s Center for the Wooden Boat:
http://www.cwb.org/
Great museum which is using the technique of teaching people to sail
and care for wooden boats and therefore building visitor ship AND
retaining a skillset.
Seattle Waterfront redevelopment tour: using the new seawall design to
restore and support habitats:
http://cristinabump.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/saf-aia-central-waterfront-tour/
MWA Town Docks:
http://www.waterfrontalliance.org/projects/docks
Teaching standards & education: ocean science mesh nicely with new
emphasis on learning standards: Learning & teaching ocean sciences: A
complex systems approach
http://oceanliteracy.wp.coexploration.org/?page_id=128
http://www.terc.edu/ourwork/afterschool.html
--
Maria Mortati
http://www.mortati.com
http://sfmobilemuseum.org
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