NYAB Event - "Rising Currents" Workshop Open House

"Rising Currents" Workshop Open House

MOMA PS1

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"Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront," a major, eight-month initiative that will bring together teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers to address and create infrastructure solutions to make New York City more resilient in response to rising water levels and to protect endangered eco-systems. The future of New York’s waterfronts has been identified as one of the most urgent challenges the nation’s largest city faces, with the anticipated rise in sea levels due to climate change. Comprising an eight-week architects-in-residence workshop at P.S.1 beginning November 16, followed by an exhibition of the resulting design proposals at MoMA, "Rising Currents’" purpose is to address the need for the design of adaptive “soft” infrastructures for New York and New Jersey’s Upper Bay. The workshop is part of the new P.S.1 initiative Free Space, an ongoing program in which artists and non-profit arts organizations are invited to use available gallery space for rehearsals, workshops, research, and events in exchange for an exhibition or live presentation for P.S.1 visitors. Bringing together the New York arts community during a time of economic challenge, several groups and artists have been invited to use P.S.1 as a space for research and development. There will be two Open House events during the "Rising Currents" workshops, during which the public is invited to visit the teams and view their works in progress. The public is also invited to follow the teams' progress online where they can participate in an online conversation with curators, designers, and visitors.