3 Rivers 2nd Nature

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A 745 square mile multi-watershed project

2000-2005

A five year artists initiated research and planning project, taking the three rivers, fifty-two streams and the riparian banks as the aesthetic focus of a body of work which would support municipalities and non-profits interested in regional preservation and restoration. The project team spent four-years on the water working out of and with specific communities to map and examine the aesthetic form, function and values of the rivers and streams of Allegheny County Pennsylvania. The artists worked with attorneys, planners and scientists to examine regulation and policy, making contributions to water issues and land issues which would result in new parks, preserved lands and zoning protected open spaces.

For more, please see the 3r2n Project website.

Eden 3

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A focus on trees as ubiquitous living things

2006-Present.

This is a tree-focused international research initiative, intended to explore the relationship between the largest things in the world, and climate change. Artists and musicians work with technologists and scientists to reveal the biogenic interaction of trees with the changing atmospheric chemistry of cities. The intent of the project is to reveal a tree’s role in atmospheric exchange, while trying to understand the potential for human-nonhuman empathy, and its relationship to imaginative and responsible human response.

For more, read the Eden3 Project website.

Nine Mile Run Greenway Project

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1997-2000

A six square mile watershed

This was the first of two artist led research projects that focused upon the values that shape the human relationship to a large scale post-industrial landscape ecosystem. Working over a period of three years, theories about aesthetics, ecological recovery, and radical approaches to art, planning, and design were developed and tested through art practice. Three artists and an attorney worked with scientists, citizens and the City of Pittsburgh to agree a concept development plan for the eco-aesthetic recovery of small river valley, and an extension of a public park.

For more information, please see the Nine Mile Run Project Website