We're also working on our own publication which will cover the past 8 months in more depth. To ground our own work we'd like to get a stronger understanding of the broader context. The proposal is a 2 month research trip, hitting up places such as Fresh Kills landfill, to the artistic rehabilitations of declining neighborhoods in Detroit, to self-sufficient vigilantes in California, to the culturally rich but dire city of New Orleans. While I do this Matt will be holding down the fort in Buffalo, where we'll join up again afterward to compile a more comprehensive statement about our work and potential implications for the future.
- Cleveland, OH - Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative
- Detroit, MI - Architectural Salvage Warehouse
- Detroit, MI - Design 99 + Power House
- Detroit, MI - Imagination Station
- Detroit, MI - The Heidelberg Project (outdoor art project - abandonment turned artists' colony)
- Chicago, IL - Lowercase Collective
- Portland, OR - Communitecture
- Portland, OR - The ReBuilding Center
- Lagunitas, CA - David Hoffman
- San Diego, CA - Estudio Teddy Cruz
- Colorado Desert, CA - Slab City (decommissioned and uncontrolled site-turned squatting and camping grounds)
- Taos, New Mexico - Earthship Biotecture/Mike Reynolds (passive solar houses made of natural and recycled materials)
- Huntsville, TX - Phoenix Commotion/Dan Phillips (Eco-friendly homes for low-income families)
- Houston, TX - John Milkovisch
- New Orleans, LA - Eric Kugler
- New York, NY - Fresh Kills landfill (one of the largest landfills [and man-made structures] in the world, now under development as "Freshkills Park")
- New York, NY - ABC No Rio (community center/activist collaborative)
- New York, NY - The Hole (ghost town between Brooklyn and Queens)
- Boston, MA - Ze-gen, Inc. (renewable energy company - gasification)
But this can't happen without help. Check out the Kickstarter campaign and its sweet rewards:
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