How can we dream of a world that is ecologically just and rooted in equity for all human and nonhuman life? The Creativity Lab offers a space where visitors can consider their relationship to the environments they inhabit through activities and resources designed by artists and community organizations. What might a world look like in which we have all we need for ourselves and our communities?
Play the game WHAT IF? Ecospheric Cosmologies, designed by artists Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow as part of their ongoing project "Investing in Futures." Use a deck of cards, instructions, and audioguide to imagine a world you want to live in and form a new perspective on today.
Learn about urban gardening and environmental justice through resources and activities designed by the Lower Eastside Girls Club, an organization offering free programming in art, science, leadership, entrepreneurship, and wellness for girls and gender-diverse youth in New York City. Read books related to environmentalism, sustainability, and gardening selected by the Lower Eastside Girls Club community.
The Crown Creativity Lab is a participatory space activated by local partner organizations, artists, and MoMA visitors. Each project is inspired by art on view and invites creativity, personal reflection, and exchange with others.
Collaborators
Investing in Futures is a creative framework that helps you imagine a world you want to live in and form a new perspective on today. At the heart of the framework is a deck of playing cards to use as a starting point for worldbuilding. The project was designed by artist/educators Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow, who continue to offer workshops using Investing in Futures as the centerpiece for facilitated group co-imagination and discussion.
Since 1996, the Lower Eastside Girls Club (LESGC) has supported young women and gender expansive youth of color throughout New York City in leveraging their inner power to shape a better future for themselves, their community and the world. As an innovative learning hub, LESGC models practices of community resilience and healing-centered engagement through free, year-round innovative programs in STEM, Arts, Digital Media and Sound, Wellness, Civic Engagement, and Leadership.
Accessibility
In order to serve visitors with hearing loss, the Crown Creativity Lab includes induction hearing loops for sound amplification. Visitors can turn their hearing aid or cochlear implant to T-coil mode to hear enhanced sound effortlessly. The loop system does not work with hearing aids without telecoil technology.
All-gender restrooms are located on Floors 1, 3W, 5, and T1.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and live captioning is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
The entrance to the Creativity Lab has a power-assist door. Seating options include chairs with backs and mattresses at wheelchair height.
For more information on accessibility at MoMA please visit moma.org/Access. For accessibility questions or accommodation requests please email [email protected] or call 212-708-9781.
Soundscape for WHAT IF? audioguide by Nailah Hunter.
