Minds in the Gutter

JOIN US: Minds in the Gutter ...a viewing of the selected designs and a panel discussion among expert dreamers and do-ers in the field of stormwater management. April 22, 2010, 6:30pm Museum of the City of New York Click through for tickets! S.W.I.M. members call 917.492.3395 to enter at MCNY member rate! On the Panel... Deborah Marton, moderator Executive Director of Design Trust for Public Space Kate Zidar Stormwater Infrastructure Matters (S.W.I.M.) Coalition Ed Janoff NYC Department of Transportation Office of Planning and Sustainability Nette Compton MIG juror, Senior Project Manager for Design at NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and Design Trust Fellow for Designing Parks for the 21st Century Barbara E. Wilks MIG exhibitor, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture Eric Rothstein MIG exhibitor, eDesign Dynamics In the Exhibit... ARUP a phased transition from existing conditions to “shared city” goal of multi modal streets for Chambers St. in Manhattan dlandstudio Gowanus Canal Sponge Park Robin Key Landscape Architecture Minetta Creek Revisited W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, LLC A LIVING MARINE EDGE: a new street prototype for NYC Brooklyn Greenroof permeable corridor in sidewalk on DeGraw Street in Brooklyn, eDesign Dynamics LLC, in collaboration with Sustainable South Bronx and Drexel University capturing stormwater with enhanced tree pits on a sloped street in Hunts Point NYC Department of Environmental Protection with Gaia Institute enhanced tree pits and street-side swales stormwater demonstration project in the Jamaica Bay watershed Greenstreets two sites from this interagency entity's roster, one that is built in Brooklyn and one designed for Queens NYC Department of Environmental Protection with Biohabitats/HydroQual/Hazen and Sawyer Shoelace Park stormwater demonstration concept in the Bronx HAKA team an elevated greenway on Highbridge that irrigates itself from this group of former classmates Sang-ayunan team Rockefeller Plaza “Curbolution” from this Cornell student team Joseph G. and Nicholas Lione mini sand columns for catch basins from a father-son engineering duo WE Design with Regional Plan Association and Brooklyn Greenway Initiative a comprehensive look at West Street in North Brooklyn North Brooklyn Compost Project in collaboration with NYC Soil and Water Conservation District a tree lawn retrofit and subwatershed delineation along McCarren Park edge Connecting.nyc an honorable mention for this education program targeting the Flushing Bay community THANK YOU to all who sent in ideas for creative stormwater management techniques in the public right-of-way for New York City. http://www.mindsinthegutter.org/