CALL // City as Living Laboratory works with artists, scientists, and residents of urban communities to create sustainable solutions for urgent environmental issues including climate, equity and health. We see artists as innovative coalition-leaders who can chart a course towards greater community understanding and engagement in the journey towards sustainable development.
This feed will feature audio self-guided walks and conversations led by teams of artists and scientists interested in how collaboration can help our cities thrive.
AIA Award-winning architect Marlon Blackwell and leading environmental Engineer Dr. Marty Matlock are joined by CALL's founder and artistic director Mary Miss for a conversation on the power and challenges of collaboration, as well as our relationship with the natural world.
This podcast is lightly edited from the recording of a live zoom event on December 2nd, 2020.
Marlon Blackwell is an architect and winner of the 2020 AIA Gold Medal. He is the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture at University of Arkansas. His current work includes a plan in St. Louis that will connect Forest Park to downtown and the Gateway Arch to, linking neighborhoods north and south. He is also working on an early childhood education center in Detroit that will be part of the “cradle to career” development repurposing the recently closed Marygrove College campus – the largest philanthropic investment into a Detroit neighborhood in the city’s history. Blackwell joined the board of CIty as Living Laboratory in 2020.
Dr. Marty Matlock is an ecological engineer, professor, and executive director of the University of Arkansas Resiliency Center. His research focuses on the interface of food, water, and community systems. He works with ecologists, engineers, architects, social and political scientists, agricultural scientists, economists, and business leaders to create new understanding and framing of vexing human challenges. Matlock also brings his perspective as Chairman of the Cherokee Nation Environmental Protection Commission.
Mary Miss is an environmental artist and the artistic director of City as Living Laboratory. She is dedicated to creating opportunities for artists to work with scientists and community members to address current social and environmental challenges. In 2009, Miss founded City as Living Laboratory, creating a framework for making issues of sustainability and climate change tangible through the arts. Miss is currently working on two urban scale projects, ‘WaterMarks: an Atlas of Water for the city of Milwaukee’ and ‘Rescuing Tibbetts Brook: One Stitch at a Time.”
CALL// CIty a Living Laboratory works with artists, scientists, and residents of urban communities to create sustainable solutions for urgent environmental issues including climate, equity and health. We help people connect environmental challenges to personal experience and take action.
26 May 2020
The Tree & I (wherever you are) - Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo
Join artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo for a meditative experience with the natural world you are a part of. During this episode, Nicolás will guide you through a series of exercises you can take to reconnect with the living beings that surround you- trees and water. Listen to this podcast in any environment you find yourself in where you can see a bit of green, and build a personal relationship with a tree.
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This podcast is affiliated with The Tree & I, an audio CALL/WALK led by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo and John Butler, and CALL's Rescuing Tibbetts Brook (https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/rescuing-tibbetts) initiative.
We love to hear from people who have used our walks! Share your experience on social media with by tagging #CALLwalks and @cityaslivinglab. Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cityaslivinglab/) for video content and additional walks.
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This walk was produced by Liza Cucco and Olivia Georgia of City as Living Laboratory (CALL). It was recorded by Eddie Gonzales and edited by Julian Remy Hernandez. Copyright is jointly held by CALL and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo.
22 Apr 2020
CALL/WALK - The Tree & I - Nicolás Dumit Estévez and John Butler
To follow this walk in Van Cortlandt Park, head to the entrance of the park at 246th Street and Broadway. Before you begin the walk, open this google map (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lTAkDQ81B7iMRyNYXcjA7KFfJxcyjpfb&usp=sharing)to help orient you and guide your steps. The Tree & I is an audio CALL/WALK led by artist Artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez and Van Cortlandt Park Alliance (https://vancortlandt.org/) environmental project manager John Butler. As you listen to the Tree & I, you will be guided through a section of the Park, entering at 246th street and passing along the parade grounds and Van Cortlandt house to the Wolf Tree. The walk then travels to the wet meadow and on to Van Cortlandt Lake, where Tibbetts Brook enters the Broadway Sewer. Estévez guides a series of meditations to connect listeners to natural life around them. Butler contextualizes these meditations with insight into the local ecosystem and history of the park. This walk can be listened to anywhere, but is best experienced within Van Cortlandt Park.
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CALL/WALKS (https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/callwalks) are a series of artist-led public programs that engage urban residents on the streets of their communities to explore the nature that is in action all around them. These walks brainstorm ways artists, scientists, and communities can work together to meet urgent environmental challenges impacting climate, health, and equity. This walk is a part of a constellation of public programs and artists projects that advocate for and engage the community in daylighting Tibbetts Brook. For more information about this initiative, visit https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/rescuing-tibbetts (https://www.cityaslivinglab.org/rescuing-tibbetts)
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We love to hear from people who have used our walks! Share your experience on social media with by tagging #CALLwalks and @cityaslivinglab. Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cityaslivinglab/) for video content and additional walks.
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This walk was produced by Liza Cucco and Olivia Georgia of City as Living Laboratory (CALL). It was recorded by Eddie Gonzales and edited by Julian Remy Hernandez. Copyright is jointly held by CALL and Nicolás Dumit Estévez.
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