The people within The New School ecosystem and our communities of practice matter. This symposium acknowledges the work of researchers and creative practitioners. All faculty, students, and staff and the public are welcome.
Fall 2019 Symposium Presenters: - Diane Moser - Waterbirds: Environmental Dialogues Through Music
Composer/pianist Diane Moser created a 50 minute music composition for her Birdsong Trio comprised of bassist Ken Filiano and flutist Anton Denner, incorporating field recordings that focus on coastal and wetlands birds and their disappearing habitats in and around New Jersey and New York.
- Harpreet Sareen - Plantae Agrestis: A Self-Organizing Distributed Garden driven with Plant Signals
In collaboration with Tower Hill Botanical Garden (Boston), ‘Plantae Agrestis’ is an installation wherein the control mechanisms lie with the plants. A number of plants in a conservatory of Botanical Garden are connected to robotic equipment and left to self-organize. Rather than stationary plants, this leads to a constantly rearranging layout of a conservatory controlled by the plants themselves. The installation, a preview of the future technological plant society, is meant to show the capabilities of nature and mechanisms to design with and for it.
- Philip Dray - A Lynching at Port Jervis: Racial Violence, Response and Reform in New York City's Gilded Age
The 1892 spectacle lynching in Port Jervis NY of Robert Lewis, a 28-year old African-American hotel worker accused of a sexual assault, shook the nation. Such mob violence was unprecedented in a quiet upstate burg only 65 miles from Manhattan. The incident changed the national narrative on race, for it spoke unmistakably of the insidiousness and geographic ubiquity of racial intolerance. This project views it as an augury of many fierce injustices with which, in 2019, we still contend.
- Julia Foulkes - Culture City: The Arts and Everyday Life in New York.
This book examines New York in the postwar period, when the consolidation of a municipal cultural policy shifted the debate about the arts from established institutions to activities on the streets, from buildings to outdoor spaces, and from rehearsed performances and crafted artworks to spectacles of the everyday. Under the direction of Principal Investigator Julia Foulkes, History.
- Arta Yazdanseta - Green Wall Cooling System
This investigation is a collaborative approach that builds upon previously published research by Dr. Yazdanseta. That research provided a method for designing vining green-walls so as to utilize their free transpiration cooling power to reduce the cooling loads of buildings. This study aims to optimize that method by introducing a performative support structure using ceramic 3D printing technology.
