S.O.S. Mobile Classroom
S.O.S. Mobile Classroom- This multi usage cargo bicycle will be an mobile classroom when park at street or doing a workshop in a school or community event. It will surely be a catalyst for an interesting green conversation and spreading the message. This mobile classroom will engage visitor by doing workshop and providing a real to life scale model of what a mobile garden and a compost bin would be by hauling all the necessary equipment along.
I have been paying attention to bicycle around me when I’m walking about in New York. Last year I saw a bike repair vendor in Bronx near East Tremont Avenue and today I saw another one on Houston Street and 2nd Avenue. Bike culture is growing, can these small industry grow? Seem like the mobile repair shop is to serve those that are at the poverty line. This idea peek my interest to investigate further into cargo capability of a bicycle and how they might help in find one’s lively hood. In India there are vendor that used a bicycle to make a different in their life. Velocommerce is all about the mobility of property, and it challenges notions of ownership and private capital. It is special because it exists at the intersection of entrepreneurship, mobility, sustainability, grassroots innovation, cultures, local economies and decentralized. How I can adapt this concept in my art practice? How about becoming a GREENwala? i.e. a green person(vendor/monger).
Internet resources:
Cargo Bike Wikipedia
Velowala-Documentary on Indian Cargo Bike Commerce
Columbian Cargo Bike
Cargo Bike Directory
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Farm City Fair
Sunday, September 12, 2010
11am - 5pm
The Invisible Dog Gallery
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Free and open to the public
The fair is a wild new take on the traditional County Fair.
Join us for a day-long celebration of art and food grown in Brooklyn!
Festivities engage all the senses: hear live music performed by local marching band, Asphalt Orchestra; taste food prepared by local chefs; view specially commissioned work by local artists; get a feel for materials needed to produce your own food in workshops; browse a marketplace with some of Brooklyn's small-batch artisanal food purveyors; and cap it off with a Brooklyn Food Experiments cook-off competition.
French Institute Alliance Françai: Crossing the Line
The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York's premiere French
cultural center, announced today the program for the fourth annual edition of its acclaimed fall festival Crossing the
Line, September 10–27, 2010, offering the city a unique and wide-ranging festival full of new ideas and fresh perspectives. Produced in
partnership with leading New York cultural institutions, Crossing the Line is a platform for artists from both sides of the
Atlantic whose powerful contemporary practices and ideas offer us critical reflections on the world we all inhabit.
In 2010, Crossing the Line will continue to deliver the highest caliber of original work with a specific focus on the artist’s
role as a critically important thinker and catalyst for social change. Crossing the Line co-curators Lili Chopra, Artistic
Director at FIAF and Simon Dove, Director, Herberger Institute School of Dance at Arizona State University, have
focused on key artists whose work is driven by social concerns and an engagement with the policies and practices
that affect our lives. The festival will continue to engage with audiences directly through a number of innovative
events in public spaces, and the presentation of world-class performances.
“This fourth edition of Crossing the Line will increase and deepen relationships with a range of co-presenting partners,
including cultural, academic, and non-governmental organizations and agencies, to stimulate the debate and
broaden the discussion of the artists’ ideas and work,” says co-curator Lili Chopra. “Farm City, an evocative journey
through the sights, sounds, tastes, and ideas of the Urban Agriculture movement rapidly evolving in Brooklyn will
further the impact of the festival by connecting artists’
Farm City: Where Are You Growing? (2010), a festival of Urban Agriculture, located throughout sites in
Brooklyn, co-curated with Derek Denckla.
This project is conceived to introduce the public to the principles, practices, and surprising revelations of rooftop
farms, urban homesteading, city beekeeping, and parking lot agriculture, to name a few. Punctuated by artists,
farmers, urban planners, citizens, and delicious food, this project illuminates the compelling alternative routes to a
sustainable future for urban food. Over three weekends, Farm City will explore the possibilities of our new agrarian
future, while examining our current urban reality, through a Farm City Fair, films, a Farm City Tour, and a Farm City
Forum to continue the dialogue.
The Farm City Fair features a number of performance events and commissions focused on the senses, including:
Asphalt Orchestra, Brooklyn-based 12-piece next-generation avant-garde marching band, will perform live
throughout the day.
Andrew Casner, compost painter, demonstrates his work–the community process of developing a viable
compost with an etched canvas created as a by-product.
Wylie Dufresne, renowned chef of wd-50, creates a new downloadable recipe based on re-imagining local
ingredients, to be sampled at the Fair.
Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy, a Brooklyn based artist, will present Ca pousse ! (It’s growing!), human form
sculptures that change as they grow.
Miwa Koizumi, Brooklyn-based ice cream maker of “NY Flavors,” will create a geographically inspired new ice
cream flavor based on Bergen Street and the festival.
Tattfoo Tan, urban farming visionary artist, launches his new bike-based S.O.S Mobile Classroom, dubbed
S.O.S–Sustainable Organic Stewardship.
Farm City is co-curated with Derek Denckla, editor of thegreenest.net and founder of FarmCity.US.
