MUD
Model Urban Development(MUD), a permanent installation on the roof of Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea provides infrastructure and facilities for high-density bird cohabitation in an environmental experiment in interaction with the New York City bird population.
OOZ, Inc. (…for the birds) Infrastructure and facilities for high-density bird cohabitation on the roof of Postmasters Gallery. a unique garden on the roof of Postmasters Gallery - an environmental experiment in interaction with New York City bird population. The complex 1,000 square-foot garden includes architect-designed bird housing projects (multi-family dwellings), water systems, as well as other amenities to improve the quality of life for urban birds. The installation creates conditions to observe birds’ adaptation to human-engineered technologies, testing formal and ecological theorems for high-density lifestyles, sustainable resource sharing among urban organisms, and the play of public/private division in cross-species interaction.
date: September 2006-present
medium: installation, experiment
dimensions: 10,000 square feet
location: Postmasters Gallery roof 459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue) New York, NY 10011
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