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Overlapping Celebration
Spring 2021
Advisor: Sam Dufaux
In collaboration w Evan Webber (@webberswork)
Honored w Imara Graduate Student Endowment Fund Award, 2021
Green New Deal Superstudio Curated Project, 2021
The project, located in the New York neighbourhood of East Harlem engages with the community’s rich heritage tied to celebration. The bringing together of people in support of a common cause is a distinct type of activism that unites the community and allows for the sharing of ideas and the generation of support networks. Celebration plays an active role in encouraging social gathering and empowering community members through the sharing of experiences, stories, and talents. The project looks to create spaces of celebration through diverse and dynamic programs which overlap and blend into one another, augmented and emphasized by floods of color prompting both formal and informal interaction between community members.
This is done in consideration of the sites connection with environmental and ecological systems crucial to the operation of the site and community and how this enhances and engages with acts of celebration. The project considers its impact not just on the site but within the larger cycles of the community and city, acting as a space for rainwater storage for the community in times of intense rainfall, an anaerobic digestor reducing waste produced on site and providing natural gas to the cities grid, and an urban forest fostering biodiversity and alleviating heat island effect. This is in consideration of sustainable and resilient communities from a variety of perspectives, understanding that a socially supportive community goes hand in hand with an environmentally sustainable one.
