North Miami‘s Good Neighbor Stormwater Park.
Elysian Field in a North Miami park. A place designated for the afterlife of American (sub)urban planning.
901 NE 144 Stormwater Park
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North Miami‘s Good Neighbor Stormwater Park, designed by Department Design Office with Andrew Aquart, Adler Guerrier, and Forerunner , is now open.
North Miami’s fb post and another post.
Good Neighbor Stormwater Park
A kickstarter campaign to support a community park in North Miami that helps neighbors with flooding and climate adaptation; the winning design from a competition hosted by New York-based Van Alen Institute, in partnership with the City of North Miami.
Miami Herald coverage of the project.
Van Alen Institute and North Miami announced
Van Alen Institute and the city of North Miami announced Department Design Office as the winners of their #KeepingCurrent Repetitive Loss Properties competition.
Department Design Office, the design firm collaborated with artist Adler Guerrier, architect Andrew Aquart, and hazard mitigation startup Forerunner on the winning design.
The teams were asked to create renderings for the repetitive loss site pilot at 901 Northeast 144th Street located in North Miami’s District 3.
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A little bit of play in everyday residential architectural language. North Miami.
Reimagine public uses of flood-prone lots
“Van Alen Institute, in collaboration with the City of North Miami, announced … KEEPING CURRENT: Repetitive Loss Properties design competition. The competition, which launched in April 2019, invited architects and designers from around the globe to submit proposals that reimagine public uses of the City of North Miami’s current and future portfolio of flood-prone vacant lots, known as repetitive loss (RL) properties.”
“Keeping Current: A Sea Level Rise Challenge for Greater Miami is a project of Van Alen Institute that encompasses a series of initiatives seeking innovative solutions to protect South Florida’s 6 million residents from the potentially catastrophic consequences of sea level rise. To fund the initiative, Van Alen raised $850,000 from The Rockefeller Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, The Miami Foundation, Target, and Terra. Van Alen employs its expertise and network to help South Florida residents gain a better understanding of sea level rise and new ways to respond to their changing environment. This initiative builds upon Van Alen’s leadership in organizing projects that generate innovative solutions to complex climate change problems. After Hurricane Sandy, we worked with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop nearly $1 billion worth of infrastructural improvements in the Northeast region. We also recently worked in Lower Mississippi River Delta, where we collaborated with dozens of stakeholders to make the New Orleans region more sustainable over the next 100 years.”
Van Alen Institute – Keeping Current, Climate Design Lab (with University of Miami), Repetitive Loss (with the city of North Miami), Resource Guide (“designing to live with water” – pdf)
MOCA vs. The city of North Miami
smoke signals: portals y paisajes
smoke signals: portals y paisajes
curated by William Cordova
under the bridge
12425 ne 13th ave
305 987 4437
May20, 2012 – July 08, 2012
“in one case, the out of field designates that which exists elsewhere, to one side or around; in the other case,the out of field testifies to a more disturbing presence, one which cannot even be said to exist, but rather toinsist or subsist, a more radical elsewhere, outside homogeneous space and time”
-Gilles Deleuze (Cinema I: The Movement-Image 1983)
“… nothing stays permanent”
-Hiroshi Sugimoto (interview with Giampaolo Penco: 2007)
smoke signals: portals y paisajes is a project that focuses on the concept of the lens as a portal, frame, window,
an entry point that one can further look through to unlock narratives beyond the limits of a two dimensional plane:
informed, constructed and activated by our own personal experiences… experiences we bring to this two dimensional frame.
The mobility/ immobility of the two-dimensional lens, frame, portal operates as static objects in one hand while penetrating
through the fabric of our own consciousness with implied narratives on the other hand. We as spectators enter these portals,
seeking paisaje or landscape all the time except that we more often run into them through the comfort and familiarity of our
own lens, our own doorway thus further negating any possibility of new discovery or perspectives. These familial experiences
can be altered by permitting ourselves to slow down the way we interpret the landscape…slowing down our visual sensors
in order to comprehend and disseminate the parallels between familiar and distant moments/memory in many cases forgotten
or displaced…juxtaposing known images, sounds and situations with possible foreign ones that slowly create a paradox between
the unfamiliar and familiar…threading, constructing and overlapping multiple narratives fused together to propose alternative
perspectives. Gaining these perspectives can allow for a reconsideration of the known physical and psychological terrain.
Social change only happens when we change our perspective.
“We should distinguish the properties of particulars, and gather by induction what pertains to the eye when visions take place and what is found in the manner of sensations.”
-Ibn Al-Haytham (The Book of Optics: 11th century)