Ecologies of Transition

2017-2023
Pioneer Works






The Ecologies of Transition was a series of roundtable discussions gathering design professionals and grassroots community groups  to discuss methods for applying long-term ecological thinking to community-based design and enhancing daily life for residents in the shared watershed between Gowanus, Red Hook and Governors Island. Grounded in sharing and reflecting, these sessions held space for sharing methods for noticing, listening and storytelling about systems that shape urban ecology across disciplines and neighborhood lines. We explored small-scale strategies and tools for measuring carbon in soil, how to turn neighborhood organic waste into compost, and mapped our connected waterway and resource flow to manage and plan for coastal and daylight flooding events.


Links

Ecologies of Transition Roundtable: Urban Carbon Farming at Pioneer Works, September 2019

Ecologies of Transition Roundtable; We are all Compost at Earth Matter, October 2019

Ecologies of Transition Roundtable: Hydrological Ties that Bind—Gowanus and Red Hook, November 2019