MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center joined forces to address one of the most urgent challenges facing the nation’s largest city: sea-level rise resulting from global climate change. Though the national debate on infrastructure is currently focused on “shovel-ready” projects that will stimulate the economy, we now have an important opportunity to foster new research and fresh thinking about the use of New York City's harbor and coastline. As in past economic recessions, construction has slowed dramatically in New York, and much of the city’s remarkable pool of architectural talent is available to focus on innovation.
An architects-in-residence program at P.S.1 (November 16, 2009–January 8, 2010) brings together five interdisciplinary teams to re-envision the coastlines of New York and New Jersey around New York Harbor and to imagine new ways to occupy the harbor itself with adaptive “soft” infrastructures that are sympathetic to the needs of a sound ecology. These creative solutions are intended to dramatically change our relationship to one of the city’s great open spaces.
This installation presents the proposals developed during the architects-in-residence program, including a wide array of models, drawings, and analytical materials.
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This is the first opportunity for the public to visit the Rising Currents architect-in-residence studios at P.S.1. As part of P.S.1’s Saturday Sessions, the five teams will open their studios to the public and be available to discuss their work. Two rounds of presentations will be given. The first round of presentations will begin at 2:15 p.m. and the second will begin at 4:30 p.m.
Organized by The Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with P.S.1, Rising Currents will include a residency for teams of architects and designers at P.S.1 this fall and an exhibition at MoMA next spring. The residency at P.S.1 is part of Free Space, a new project with artists and nonprofit arts institutions in which P.S.1 provides collaborative use of its gallery space for events, rehearsals, and other live presentations.
2:15
LTL Architects, 3rd Floor
2:30
Scape Landscape Architecture, 2nd Floor
2:45
Michael Baird Architect, 1st Floor
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nARCHITECTS, Education Room, Lower Level
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ARO, Rising Currents Lounge, Lower Level
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4:30
LTL Architects, 3rd Floor
4:45
Scape Landscape Architecture, 2nd Floor
5:00
Michael Baird Architect, 1st Floor
5:15
nARCHITECTS, Education Room, Lower Level
5:30
ARO, Rising Currents Lounge, Lower Level
The Ammann Singstad Lecture on Infrastructure honors the memory of the two great civil engineers who shaped the bridges and tunnels of New York in the middle of the twentieth century—Othmar Ammann (1879–1965) and Ole Singstad (1882–1969)—by inviting the most distinguished civil engineers in the world to speak about their own work and its greater impact. The lectures highlight the aesthetic and social dimensions of large civil and landscape engineering works and their repercussions on the physical, social, and political environment. Norwegian civil engineer Tor Ole Olsen will speak on infrastructure in the marine environment with an emphasis on his work with concrete structures in oil and gas, bridges, and renewable energy sources. This program is sponsored by The Royal Norwegian Consulate General and presented as part of the public programming associated with the upcoming MoMA exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront. This lecture has been scheduled in conjunction with the Detour exhibition at Parsons, The New School for Design.
In conjunction with the exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront, Adriaan Geuze, founder of West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, presents a lecture titled “The Promise of an Island: The Plan for Governors Island’s Park and Public Space.”
The Center for Architecture and The Museum of Modern Art invite you to on a guided boat tour of the five sites included in MoMA’s exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront. Representatives from the five architects-in-residence teams will give overviews of each site, explaining how the solutions on view in the exhibition present new ways to occupy the harbor with adaptive “soft” infrastructures.
The MoMA exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront addresses some of the most urgent challenges of sea-level rise resulting from global climate change in New York City. It features five inter-disciplinary teams that have proposed solutions to rising currents at five different sites along the New York and New Jersey coastlines. On a cruise aboard the New York Water Taxi around these sites, poets Matthea Harvey, Lisa Jarnot, and others read works about water, nature, and ecology, as well as newly commissioned poems that reimagine what the city might be like underwater, way above water, and with man-made islands and habitable piers. Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design and organizer of the exhibition, introduces the program.
The MoMA exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront addresses some of the most urgent challenges of sea-level rise in New York City resulting from global climate change. It features five inter-disciplinary teams that have proposed solutions to rising currents at five different sites along the New York and New Jersey coastlines. On a cruise aboard the New York Water Taxi around these sites, representatives from the architects-in-residence teams and Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design and organizer of the exhibition, will give overviews of each site, explaining how the solutions on view in the exhibition present new ways to occupy the harbor with adaptive “soft” infrastructures. Barry Bergdoll also introduces the program.
Food and drink are available for purchase aboard the Water Taxi.
What is the afterlife of the exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront? City planners, architects, and an engineer join us to discuss their reactions to the exhibition, possible next steps, and wider implications at the metropolitan, national, and the global levels. The discussion is moderated by Barry Bergdoll, curator of the exhibition, and includes panelists Amanda Burden, Chair of the New York City Planning Commission and Director of the Department of City Planning; Guy Nordenson, Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Princeton University, a Faculty Associate of the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and author of the study On the Water; Anuradha Mathur, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and a principle at Mathur/da Cunha; and Dilip da Cunha, visiting faculty at Parsons School of Design, New York, and a principle at Mathur/da Cunha.
Posted by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design
We started the installation of the teams’ wall materials and models in the gallery yesterday, with ARO’s team beginning the assembly of their model. We liked the correlation of the unpacking of “Lower Manhattan” from the Manhattan Mini-Storage boxes! Each of the five teams are coming to do on-site installations this week. We’re looking forward to the public opening of the Rising Currents exhibition on March 24.
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Comments
I believe that this person is truley creative. His models are very incredible. And this has been the second best exibit ever.
Posted by Billy Mays
TERRIBLE!!!!!!
Posted by gaba gaba
The studies are important. The diorama helps teach kids about this. Hope you find a way to stop it
Posted by Kora Fortun
Very interesting but i wont be around to see it. Good luck.
Posted by marietta
it`very terrible , i love this , very gooooood ,
GOOO MoMA !!!!!!!!
Posted by Picasso
They must have used a lot of styrofoam in this peice of artwork. Styrofoam, when is cracked, releases gases that are bad for the ozone layer. I doubt the person who made this never broke a peice of strofoam making this so it must have hurt the enviroment in some way. I like it but it is not so good for the enviroment.
Posted by Tweety Carter
this is an exotic art… i LOVE IT !!!!!!!
Posted by cloclo
nice!!!
Posted by l
first time here at MOMA. Love these ideas, very creative. Scary to think we will not be here;However, our grandchildren will. Peace
Posted by Murielle
We loved this place!!! unbelivable! We are going back to Argentina having seen the best museum ever! Greets
Posted by Lipsich Family
i really love this artwork. It is very creative. Love!
Posted by Atipha
i believe this exibition in this part of the water exibit is wonderfull well planned and is very easy on the eyes . a remarkable interpretation of New York City ..
i absoluetly love it
<3
Posted by fe grant
The ideas that these people created are so creative. Its amazing!
Posted by Lorenzo
This place is just super. Having a really great time, although not as good as the objects of some of the artwork…….
Posted by andi kurnia
i think this exhibit is so cute! i like the styrofoam buildings! i love love love them!!!!!! ahhhhhh! screamin for joy!
Posted by mishy
puzzate tutti!
Posted by francesca
hi, this is so interesting! I love the MOMA. bye bye
Posted by jeanne
Yo ni soy de aqui… pero que gacho
Posted by Jose Gonzalez
there is no glowbull warming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by emery
Awesome!! This is a really cool website!
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Posted by puppy
it is very interesting but i wont be here to see it . its suppose 2 come out 2080
Posted by eli
this is rad. l*ol
Posted by jaime
so COOL!!! love the idea it can help the people and animals stay safe in a safe place too anyway i love the idea + i love the moma and trust all the cool ideas! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<3 
~lucy!!
Posted by lucy
very cool, important information we all need to know presented in an exciting, engaging format
Posted by Wendy Richards
its so much fun here
Posted by danny
Come to New Orleans please. Nevermind 2100, we need this in 2010.
Posted by Mark
I love screaming in the museum.
All the exhibitions are very interesting!!!
Posted by Patryk
im scared
Posted by brendan
this is the best art work i have ever seen i luv the crystal like texture and the good formallitty of the city
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Posted by princess heidi ocasio
J’ai10 ans et je trouve que ce musee est super.
Posted by matthieu
seems like this scenario would be very scary for the next generation. i like the styrofoam city. styrofoam buildings are very floatable.
Posted by carlos
Good Idea. Please make it work.
Posted by Lee
very intresting
Posted by hazel
Super!!!! Good to know about it
Posted by Bea
good to know about it. SUPER!!
Posted by Bea
So COOL!!!
Love that!
Aucun regret, musee tres captivant, je valide !!!
Posted by Anne-Sophie
nice place
Posted by Emilie
i found the media exhibit 2 b very inapropriate for young kids like mine.
Posted by george
very nice place… go at MoMA
Posted by jib
woahhh is amazing very creative
Posted by carlos roa
So coolllllll!!!!!
Posted by alex
WoW!!! It’s A M A Z I N G here!!!!!!!!!!!! *^o^*
Posted by lauren chun
A M A Z I N G here!!!! Come to Moma
Posted by chelsea chun
realy amazing! love moma! ;O)
Posted by pitty
Amazing art work and some inspirational pieces, however, my feet are now killing me.
Posted by Anne Robinson
….it’s very very beautiful…i am from italy and new york is the best city of the world….!!!!!
Posted by luca bruzzese
It was awesome! Hope you could make more of this!
Posted by wendy
great collection of art, but the air contitioning is freezing
Posted by inaki
I think this is a very good idea because I don’t know how to swim. only how to bboy xD
Posted by Katrina
The Rising Currents exhibition makes me take pause.
Unfortunately I won’t be around in 2080 to see if any of these great ideas work. I would hope that they would be put into effect somewhat, sooner than later! I am definitely encouraging others to see this imaginative and practical exhibition!
Posted by Patricia