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Urban Rain

Stormwater as Resource

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As we recognize the necessity of creating more sustainable and humane cities, Jackie Brookner’s most recent work, <em>Urban Rain</em>, points the way.  How do we learn to not just see what we have chosen to ignore and consigned to waste, but to actually celebrate and utilize it?…

 

SKU: 90157
Size: 8 x 8 1/2″
Pages: 64pp
Binding: Softcover, Trade Paper
Publication Date: Tuesday, September 01, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9820607-2-8
World Rights: Available

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“How do we learn to not just see what we have chosen to ignore and consigned to waste, but to actually celebrate and utilize it?”

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Weight .5 lbs
Size

8 x 8 1/2"

Pages

64pp

Binding

Softcover, Trade Paper

Publication date

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

ISBN

978-0-9820607-2-8

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As we recognize the necessity of creating more sustainable and humane cities, Jackie Brookner’s most recent work, ‘Urban Rain’, points the way. How do we learn to not just see what we have chosen to ignore and consigned to waste, but to actually celebrate and utilize it? As Patricia Phillips says in her informative essay, “The artist uses stormwater as both a raw material to exploit and the problem to solve producing a fascinating feedback loop of aesthetic decisions and ecological imperatives.”

Commissioned by the City of San Jose, California to work at Roosevelt Community Center, a new LEED gold building, Brookner created two installations that collect and filter rainwater shed from the roof of the building. Beyond their elegant functionality, these works provoke questions about where the body begins and ends, about our human dependence on natural systems, and about what the being of human can mean today. This publication documents Brookner’s process from concept drawings through installation and includes provocative essays by noted art critic Patricia Phillips and hydrologist Franco Montalto.

Authors

Jackie Brookner works with ecologists, design professionals, communities, and policy makers to create water remediation/public art projects for wetlands, rivers, streams, and stormwater runoff. Noted for her creation of plant-based bio-sculptures, she lives in New York City.

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SKU: 90157
Size: 8 x 8 1/2″
Pages: 64pp
Binding: Softcover, Trade Paper
Publication Date: Tuesday, September 01, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9820607-2-8
World Rights: Available

Urban Rain

“How do we learn to not just see what we have chosen to ignore and consigned to waste, but to actually celebrate and utilize it?”

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