Showing posts with label value. Show all posts
Showing posts with label value. Show all posts

09 November 2008

Seed Project





















David Cohen's The Seed Project

This "art" project asks people to plant organic basil seeds anywhere and everywhere. Its invites one to take the element of nature and imposes it upon the more "unnatural" environments within our everyday lives.

In regards to our urban environment, existing visual cues of "natural" have become so urbane that many fail to even recognize it as plant life. This project shakes up your daily commutes, questioning place, location and purpose of plant life in our built environments.










In a time of extreme greenwashing, what are the new visual cues of true environmental action?
What locations, programs, buildings, forms of employment within a concrete jungle of a city can programmed for understanding basic living processes?
What new forms of urban gardening can harvest not only moments of contemplation, but todays lunch?

Similar movements:
Guerrilla Gardners

23 July 2008

The value of Streets














Photo: Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times

In Philadelphia, the streets are being mined for the valuable metal of manhole covers and grates. Thieves can get 5 - 50$ at salvage/recycling yards leaving the streets unsafe and "uncovered".

Value and the streetscape. What do we take for granted as valuable? What is unnoticed in the urban landscape. New York City just realized their trees created a value of
$122 million.

Is value in the eye of the beholder? or dependent upon a communities supply and demand? When does a share consensus in value leave things undervalued?

How can the city be valued?