Caroline Woolard's Lab Notes

NY Times article about urban camoflage in Japan.

SCOTT BURNHAM is the creative director of Montreal’s Biennial (2009). He is working with Droog on Urban Play:

“Urban Play is designed to take back the street… to give us the tools that let us install ourselves, our friends, our families, our games and our desires in what should be the space we all own collectively. Urban Play is the most promising experiment in not urban design, but designing the urban I […]

Throughout almost every major city in the world, individuals are taking it upon themselves to change their cities in ways that make them more creative, interactive, personal and fun. From small interventions such as a series of stickers that turn the London Underground’s Northern Line map into an interactive game to bold projects that transform chain-link fences in Chicago into public message boards, these actions fall outside of traditional notions of urban activity, and are quickly relegated to the margins, often labeled as subversive, underground, or even illegal.

Urban Play is an international project that believes this street-level inventiveness, energy and innovation is a window into a new form of creativity in the city. Launching in Amsterdam in 2008, …

DIY bike trailer instructions here.

Future Farmers made these bike wheel barrows.

4 SITES:
PLANT LIST
Botanical Name                Common Name    size     quant        location
BUTTERFLY GARDEN
Buddliea                    Butterfly Bush        5 gal    3        N
Salix Tricolor                Tricolor Willow    3 gal    1        N
Helianthus angustifolius            Swamp Sunflower    2 gal    5        N
Echinacea                Purple Coneflower    2 gal    9        N

FERN GLEN
Cornus  sericea                Red Twig Dogwood    3 gal    2        N
Carex tenuis                Path Sedge        1 gal    7        N
Iris Versicolor                Blue Flag Iris      flat or quart      9        N
Polystichum acrostichoides        Christmas Fern    1 gal    70        SHOP
Dryopteris Spinulosa            Wood Fern        1 gal    50        SHOP

BROWN FIELD GARDEN
Panicum                    Switch Grass        2 gal    3        N
Cordata                    Queen Annes Lace    2 gal    7        N
Solidago                    Goldenrod        2 gal    3        N
Pennisetum                Fountain Grass    2 gal    5        SHOP

MOSS ACROSS FROM MOSS
Thuidium                    Fern Moss        50 sq/ft     (NYU)moss acres.com
Dryopteris Spinulosa            Wood Fern
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Brooklyn parking lot field research

pedestrian street mobility retrofit innovation

mobile structures compilation

surveilance manhattan

mocking public signage

In the next 2.5 months I hope to use this space for experiments, research, and reflection. I hope to keep my Lab Notes updated daily but the internet connection is quite bad.

This is the trip I took with another fellow (Victor) over the past 2 days. Victor’s heart used to beat as slowly as 30bpm rather than the typical 60-100bpm (the difference between a waltz and blues).

My thoughts exactly… objects for action, mood, and film. BirdPeople by EelkoMoorer
The urgent yet confident vulnerability that this tool/prosthetic proposes…

The GreenLight is a prescription product developed for the xdesign Environmental Health Clinic. The light is prescribed for Impatients* interested in changing their relationship to energy systems; improving indoor air-quality and developing experience with closed and coupled systems design–the chief strategies for improved environmental performance. This lighting product diffuses light by coupling to photosynthetic processes. Planting strategies can be specified to address particular indoor air quality issues including VOC, benzene and formaldehyde removal. Like other prescription products this product requires a clinic appointment to introduce the design parameters involved, and the novel issues involved in distributed power production. In addition we discuss siting the solar awning to maximize solar energy capture and explain the advantages of the seasonal performance variation; baselining indoor air quality and specifying the mini-ecosystem appropriate for the site. Furthermore, this product embodies further important research questions including strategies to address the airquality issues of energy efficient buildings, and sales of this products directly supports clinical research in this and related areas. Impatients are asked to make follow-up appointments to contribute to this research.
* impatients refers to people who come to the clinic to address their environmental health concerns. They are qualified by sufficient impatience and skepticism with the prolonged processes of legislative change and the repertoire of experimental market-based instruments to foster environmental change. Like traditional health clinics, impatients formulate their own concerns, and seek expertise to address these issues. The leave the clinic with prescriptions for environmental design intervention, data collection and referrals to other relevant specialists and community groups in environmental activism and advocacy.

Greenlight is produced and manufactured under fully transparent conditions and documented on the visual wiki howstuffismade.org. The open visual account invites scrutiny and innovation revealing the ongoing optimization to the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental costs involved: [2]

feraltrade.org Greenlight is distributed through the Feral Trade network, a social network running largely outside commercial systems that fosters knowledge exchange and accountability. The database offers dedicated tracking of feral trade products in circulation, archives every shipment and generates freight documents on the fly: [3]

Blown glass, multi-crystalline Photovoltaic cells encased in clear urethane, LED lighting technology, photosynthesis.

Product Description: Solar-powered blown glass overhead planting light

Inspiration/concept: Closed loop system design to address indoor air quality issues

Dimensions: Fixture: Height: 12-16″ with 9″ Diameter base Sunlight power station: H = 9″ W = 14″ D = 6″

Materials: Glass, low voltage LED light system, Photovoltaic panel, battery, control system, tropical & sub-tropical indoor plants which maximize indoor air filtration

Manufacturing Processes: Blown glass, multi-crystalline Photovoltaic cells encased in clear urethane, LED lighting technology, photosynthesis.