the project
Marsh Radio Island Community Supported – Salt Marsh Flotant – Communication Station Marsh Radio Island is a project that activates the interconnectedness of humans and plants in the urban port city ecosystem of Boston by deploying designed flotants (modular salt marsh habitats) for growing salt marsh plant species of the future. It offers a […]
boundaries and borders
“If Entelechy aspired to be a landscape I think maybe it would be a salt marsh; an intertidal zone. The sociologist Richard Sennett makes the distinction between borders and boundaries. He talks of natural ecologies where borders are the zones in a habitat where organisms become more inter-active; places where different species or physical conditions […]
ideas: what if this could happen in Boston?
proposals include lots that deal with coastline, flooding, etc.
preliminary musings
our first speculations about what we might be doing: Harbor Gardens (just a working title) Harbor Gardens proposes to activate the interconnectedness of humans and plants in our urban port city ecosystem by designing flotants (modular salt marsh habitats) for growing salt marsh plant species. It offers a practical design solution, public intervention, and […]
flotants, floating skirts, salt marsh nations
here is an image of some of the UMB work making a floating salt marsh
Ideas… All the many ideas…
LANDSCAPE INTERVENTION Build little flotation devices/life preservers and put them around plants in the Boston landscape; perhaps marking the high water line/flood line – This could be a good project with kids or with the Boston Harbor Association: education opportunity. SCULPTURE/GALLERY BASED Build a tall/full-size mock-up housing one to three grass species; exists as a real flotation device; accommodates […]