CALL CONNECTS - January 2025
New Year, New CALL Website!
Please check out CALL's newly configured web site. Click around and explore our programs through a new interface.
LOOKING FORWARD
CALL/ Conversations: Part Two
This fall, City as Living Laboratory launched a series of CALL/CONVERSATIONS to create new windows of understanding for our key projects and broader mission. Our second event is now fast approaching! Please join us on February 12th for a conversation that will examine Greenwood Pond: Double Site as a fulcrum point that led to shifts in Mary's practice and the conception of City as Living Laboratory.
Read more about our distinguished line-up below!
Associate Professor School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, and School of Architecture Texas A&M University. Her monograph American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979 (Routledge 2023) addresses how Mary Miss and her contemporaries were drawn to architectural practices as they directly shaped the social and material spaces of everyday life.
Section Lead, Climate & Equity at NYC Department of Environmental Protection; and Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems. Amy is a landscape planner, designer, and water resource specialist passionate about data-driven solutions for regionally adaptive design, regulatory innovation, and equitable community growth.
MIT Tunney Lee Distinguished lecturer in Urbanism, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His research explores the promises and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism.
Zoom Conversation: Cloudbursts and Resilience in Corona
Join us on Wednesday, February 5th from 12:00-1:00PM EST for an online conversation with Adrián Cerezo, Ph.D. (Consultant, WaterMarks Milwaukee), Sanket Hendre (Manager of Corona Plaza at the Queens Economic Development Corporation), and Christian Cassagnol (District Manager, Queens Community Board 4). Together, they will address the challenges of cloudbursts in Corona, Queens. Cloudbursts ---sudden and intense rainfall events--- are becoming more frequent due to climate change, posing significant risks to neighborhoods like Corona, built on historic waterways.
This panel will highlight Corona's particular vulnerabilities to climate-induced cloudbursts and discuss how CALL's initiatives are being developed to foster knowledge sharing and collaboration that can contribute to visions of a more sustainable and resilient future.
2025 NaturePLACE Collaborative Arts Program Artist Call Now Open!
Our friends at the NaturePLACE Collaborative Arts Program Organizing Committee have issued a call for the 2025 NaturePLACE (People, Landscapes, Arts, Creativity, Ecologies) Collaborative Arts Program (formerly the Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program), a residency hosted by the USDA Forest Service and The Nature of Cities. They are looking for artist proposals to do collaborative work in Baltimore (MD), NYC (NY), Newark (NJ), and the Kaibab National Forest (AZ). Through this program, selected artists will engage with land managers and researchers to better understand, represent, and communicate about social-ecological systems through works of art and imagination.
The deadline is February 28, 2025. Find the application form HERE.
Grab a copy of the Pedestrian Observations map!
The Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown's Public Realm pocket-sized resource map are still available!
In this pamphlet, you'll find an illustrated map by artists and designers Myles Zhang and Stephan Fan, along with extensive information and questions about the uses of public and private space.
We're more than happy to send a copy your way, just fill out the form through the button below.